[Are these tires any good on the street? Curious]

 

I've always liked these AG tires, I am curious if I could actually drive on the street on these

[One reason I won't buy a new'ish Pathfinder]

 

Picture me jumping in this interior after I just got out of the mud hole. Usually after a trip in the woods I have to water hose the floor board out, I can't imagine how I would begin to clean this out

[What did you do to your Pathfinder today?]

FINALLY ORDERED MY ECU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My god!!!! it was ridiculous trying to find that thing. My wallet hates NAPA, I did not under any circumstances order it from there, but they were going to charge $388 for a refurb. I ordered one from eBay for $80, but it was a California Emmisions blah blah something or another. Finally found one this morning on eBay, the exact one I need. $159, be here on wed. I miss my damn Pathy. I know the guy that posted the part sold it so fast he is probably in the JY hunting his gold mine he think he found. So I am excited to get my rust bucket back on the road.

[ECM Got Wet....]

That picture reminds me of this one...

 

 

 

OMG, looks almost like where I got stuck. Awesome picture though. And true.

[Opinions Pls. Repair or buy another Pathy]

I think you have come to the logical conclusion, time for a better one. I would be loathe to build up any vehicle that had serious rust issues...

 

I don't know the details, but hopefully not having the pathy running will not strand you. What I would do if possible is move, bring the pathy, strip it of everything (armrests to intakes), scrap it, sell what ever you can, store what you want to keep, find a good pathy to buy and build that one up with the parts.

 

Ciongrats on the new house, and good luck with the new business. Landscaping, no? Are you going to use the pathy to pull a trailer for that as well?

 

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Yep, Landsdcaping. Yea, it's going to pull the trailer as well. It is a DD, I have another car that I put the plates on only if the Pathy is down. I am attached to it, but I think you guys are right. It's time to move on to another, more sound Pathy. Only so much duct tape and roofing tar to go around. It will put off the business a couple a weeks buying another car, but I think it will be best in the long run.(..hears Taps in the background)

[Opinions Pls. Repair or buy another Pathy]

As some of you know, I took my Pathy swimming last weekend and fried the ECU. I went to Napa this morning for price check. $388+$78 core. That is beyond ridiculous. Ebay has the one I need for about $160. Add overnight to that, which brings me to the situation.

I am moving to a new house next weekend, it's about 30 min away. I was, of course, going to use my truck to pull a UHaul. I am unable to buy the ECU until next tues, which means I have tp overnight it. So $200 bucks total. While my Pathy is down I have had time to think. I can't really do what I want to it because it is sooo eat up with rust. I have used over a gallon of roofing tar underneath it, holes were so big my fist could go through them, exhaust made my wife spew on the way home when we bought it. So I did what I could to patch the holes underneath it. I custom paint cars, went to school for it when I was in my early 20's. It kills me that I can't spray what I want on it , once again, the rust is too extensive. Lack of a welder also limits most of the repairs I can do atm.

Buying this house and everything else has left me completely broke, not to mention I have to rebuild my business in the next 6 weeks. What I am thinking is instead of buying the ECU, use that money to rent a UHaul box truck to move. After I am moved then strip the truck of the wheels/brush guard/Rack/ and sell or scrap the remainder. As we all know Pathfinders are all over Craigslist for 1000-1200 and plenty of them. No rust on most. So maybe I can start again with a better foundation. I would just have to wait about 3 weeks to buy it. I have until tuesday to decide. I'm just wondering what you guys think.

[ECM Got Wet....]

The coating won't hurt it, unless it is a component that required a cooling fan. Many moons ago I used to rebuild and coat generator boards for military Humvees.

[ECM Got Wet....]

after you dry all the connections by some dielectric grease and inject in into every connector. I've had plendy of dunks and full nose submersions and none of my underhood connectors corroded from it.

 

I think I put it on here somewhere, but my ECU is currently in the glove box. I notched the glove box liner so it doesn't take that much space in there. Eventually It will go above the glove box but space is tight there with the AC duct...

 

 

 

Good advice, thanks. I will deff. do that. And when I get the new ECU it's going in the glove box too before I climb back in.

[ECM Got Wet....]

Yea, JY here has a few, around 60 bucks.

 

Me and the wife taking our Pathy for a swim on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The death of my ECM, lol. I need some pontoons!!!

 

[You know you drive a Pathfinder when:]

..when you hand crank your window up and the last half you have to reverse then forward, reverse then forward just to get it to close.

[You know you drive a Pathfinder when:]

...when your Brush Guard and Roof rack cost more that the truck did. True story.When it comes time to scrap the OLD MAN I could get my money back from the guard/rack/tires/rims. Actually I would profit.

[what to do what to do...]

 

 

Yes...i beat my Pathy....she likes it....mostly! [<--This comment was for entertainment purposes only. Don't try this at home unless you have spare vehicle]

 

^^^^^^I approve this message. Thanks to my last swimming incident, I was glad I kept my previous car and happier still that it only cost $7 to swap tags at the DMV. They know me by name now.

 

To the OP, it depends on what you do to your Pathy. Out of those choices I would go for the winch, because I am an idiot and will put one to good use, not just a pretty bumper accessory. If you don't get stuck EVER, then lift kit. Hard to say, we all drive different.

[ECM Got Wet....]

Tupperware container really isnt a bad idea....

 

Rice the interior?!? Now THAT I want to see. If someone thought of its, its bound to have happened by now. Where's Google when you need it.

 

mike395: Dude, wish you were down here. I need a hard charging wheeling buddy. But there is some knarly stuff down here!

I wish.

 

Update today, the ECM is shot. It isn't powering up at all so I will have to replace it next week. When I do I am going to take all the electronics off the floor. I'm going to give it a good once over under the hood too with a couple of bottles of silicone.

Maybe I should take the doors off and join a Jeep Club. I'll tell them it's a rare Japanese version, only one made in 88.

[Gas mileage]

Should be running 5w30 in these rigs.

I noticed I burn less oil when I went to 5w30. Running from 85 degree Fla to 0 degree Michigan and back, it ran smooth and burned no oil. When I ran 10w30 it was a quart or more a week.

[Wide body kit? wd21]

 

The keywords are getting out of hand real fast and I wish CL would do something about it. No matter what you search anymore you get 3x the amount of garbage and unrelated bullsheit.

 

I agree. That's why I put in search (washing machine) and get ads for a transmission from a 86 Cadillac mounting bracket.

[ECM Got Wet....]

After making the inner fender snorkel I had to try it out, lol. And I have no way of knowing the weak points unless it is put through the paces. Like Gandy (RIP) on Buck Wild said.,"You don't know if it is any good unless you put it in the @&#33;*%"., lol . Any way. Not a big deal. I know now that I have to relocate that. My friend who is looking it over now is a retired AF airplane mech. specializing in electronics. From boredom he is tearing through every scrap of wire on that truck. His advice to me was to get a Jeep Wrangler, put it on 44's, snorkel and double winches, the way I drive, haha. Probably good advice. I don't tip toe in the woods. Anyway, he is looking at making some 2 part silicone casings for all the connections and relays under the hood, even though after he inspected them this morning he was impressed with the parts Nissan went with. Most everything was factory water tight. After running the diagnostics he could see the problem was coming from the ECM. It was still holding water. As I was leaving for work he was taking the seat out. Going to see what it's looking like in the morning.

 

[What did you do to your Pathfinder today?]

Left it at a friends house to dry out the ECM. Pathfinder can swim, ECM cannot. Next project, relocate it.

[ECM Got Wet....]

Trying out my inner fender snorkel this weekend, it worked successfully, but my ECM is soaked. It caused the relays to click a song like crazy, fuel pump going on off on off. I pulled it to a friends house near the forest where I was at. He called this morning and told me the ECM is full of water, he is drying it out today while I am here at work. Should I replace the unit? Everything else under the hood held pretty water tight, but the ECM needs to be moved to higher ground for sure.

[How To Install A 3" Body Lift]

It would be nice if the pics were still on here. Can anyone update these old Threads with some pics for us that wasn't here a few years ago please?

[Guess that Sound]

There should be a thread started called "Guess That Noise" I'm sure there is a lot of questions about odd sounds out there. For a week I have been shaking the exhaust trying to pin down the location of a vibration noise in the rear when I am shifting gears....ehhh that's for another thread

[What do you always have with you?]

Lol. When I got stuck last weekend I brought her a chair to sit in while I dug it out. She threw the chair in the mud and started shoveling,lol. But it was a PITA. I want to prevent that from happening in the future. Not the stuck part, that's going to happen, the unprepared part.

[Suspension lift information]

Additionally, Nissan Motorsports offers dual shock kits for the front of the Hardbody and Pathfinder, and dual shocks for the Pathfinder's rear Suspension. However, in the words of those in the know - if you need dual shocks, you're driving it too hard!!

 

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Looks cool though. Before I got into off-roading I remember seeing trucks with dual shocks and taking pics of it. It was impressive for some reason.

[What did you do to your Pathfinder today?]

I'm jealous. I want that Rancho! Lol. Maybe on my next Pathy. My current one is going to be my Lawn Maint. Truck in a couple of months. I was going to rebuild the whole thing but there is so much rust damage underneath the body, it just can't be repaired. Pathies are about 1200 around here all day long and I really want a 4 door. My back seat is all but useless, it's too hard for even my 6 year old to climb back there. I'll get another this summer.

[Official NPORA Member Map!]

Awesome feature! I pass a member everyday going to work! That's crazy.

 

Edit that. He doesn't go off road. I'm alone again, AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[What do you always have with you?]

Harbor freight sells the hi lift jack very affordable.love mine. Watch the sale ad's and get the 12k winch for $150/$250. I got lucky and got the winch, plate and wireless remote all for under $200. I'm just cheap that way.

 

Nothing wrong with being cheap. Right now the 12,000 pounders are 300. I do keep my eye on them. Harbor Freight is 3 min from my house, I'm in there all too often. If they go down to 200 or less I'm gonna pounce on it, then go home to face my wife's wrath.