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Since it's a duel in single out I'm thinking of doing a true duel all the way back and just buying two catalytic converters some more piping and then two mufflers. Anyone ever done this or have any thoughts?

Changed the spark plugs (even number 6), wires, and distributed cap they where the original ones and at 180k there was nothing left of them. Then changed the fuel filter, which was also factory and the gas that poured out was so brown and nasty. Now it idles about 1k less than it used to.

Well I say scrap yard, we have a place up the road that's an odd mix between a car salvage yard and an auto-zone they sell new stuff, remanufactured stuff, and stuff you rip out of the junk cars yourself. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mine starts and runs but by the way that 1st one looked I'm going to feel a whole lot better after I replace 'em tomorrow. I'll uploaded a side by side comparison pic tomorrow. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Replaced the gasket on the right side valve cover, changed the oil and oil filter, put a new air filter in, and pb blasted the top of all the spark plugs to soak over night.

Well I pulled the right rocker cover off today and the gasket was in three different pieces. No wonder it was leaking so bad smh. Also I pulled the 1st plug (after a good long soak of first engine degreaser and then pb blaster and that daggum thing is the origional spark plug and after 180k there is literally nothing left. I know what I'm doing tomorrow. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well I found the source of the oil leak, it was the rocker cover like you said so I cleaned all the gunk off of it and backed the screws out a little and reseated 'em nice and tight.... still pouring oil when the vehicles on. So I'm going to be pulling it off tomorrow and replacing the gasket to see if that will make it stop. Right now it looks like it's all coming from the passenger side but common sense tells me to go ahead and replace the other one too but dang it if I don't want to have to pull that intake manifold thingamabob off the top in order to get to driver side one.

Whoops I knew that, slip of the tongue (slip of the finger?). And I completely forgot about updating my info, I'll get that fixed in a bit. Thanks for the info about the recall, I'll look into it since I'm on the gulf coast. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah, I've decided to do all my own work to save money and to gain experience but I wouldn't be able to get even half of this stuff done with out my dads know how. And the whole truck is in really good shape, no evidence of any wrecks, clean original title, no week spots in the frame that I can tell. And the interior is clean, only a small rip in the edge of the divers seat. To be honest I think the previous owner just used it as a mall crawler and did pretty routine maintenance up until the oil leak showed up, so it hasn't had a hard life at all. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So if I put a 1.5" spacer up front and a 2" one in the rear that would level the truck right? Also with this set up I should be able to run 31 inch tires w/o trimming shouldn't I? What size tires are on the patchy in the picture?

Well I bought it this morning, it's a '97 4x4 with a standard transmission and 180k on the clock. I payed 2k for it and this is how it sits right now, bone stock. http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l257/yugupja/IMG_5169_zpsdaeb9fdc.jpg http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l257/yugupja/100_1142_zpsbe984c47.jpg http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l257/yugupja/100_1140_zps843fb1b0.jpg http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l257/yugupja/100_1143_zps7d69e191.jpg First thing that needs to be done is replacing both the U-joints, which I'll be doing monday when the scrap yard opens. Next the CV axle assembly needs to be replaced on both sides, and then find out where the oil is leaking from and get that fixed, at first it looked like it was the rear engine seal was bad but now I'm thinking it's coming from the T-case. I'll be looking deeper into that later today. Unless anything else that's hiding right now shows up then that should bring it back to being fully mechanically sound.

Thanks for your help! I'm going to be meeting with the guy first thing tomorrow and if I can talk him down to a reasonable price then I'll be driving it home. I'll keep ya updated!

I won't be using it for anything major, just playing around off road and utility driving since my DD is a car. My problem is no one wants to sell their wd21 and when they do it's a POS. I'm willing to travel a little but haven't been able to find anything within my range for a while. Also being a newer model and probably being more computerized will it be harder to do the work on it myself? And is the towing capability as good as a wd21? What about its crawling ability? And you said an R50 is plenty capable off road?

Okay so I had a 95 Pathy that I bought a month or so ago kind of on impulse because it was the first wd21 I had seen in this area in forever, turned out to be a much bigger problem than we had first thought and I had to sell it because with my limited time and recourses there was no way I would be able to fix it. So now I'm looking for a new one. In my area there is a distinct lack of wd21's available, I've found an R50 that I might be able to get at a reasonable price, and shouldn't be terrible to fix up it just basically needs a engine rebuild and it should be back to stock. My thing is, I am emotionally attached to the wd21 model but I'm considering a R50 because they are more readily available. Also almost all of my experience with these trucks is with the wd21, all I know about the R50 is that it went to a unibody design. Can any body tell me what where the major upgrades or downgrades when Nissan released the new model? Also do you think I should bide my time and wait for a first generation to show up (if it ever does) or will another model suit me just fine? Thanks, and sorry for my rambling.

Yeah you won't be seeing me jumping mine anytime soon. Well actually I'm young and dumb...... so maybe lol

Yeah I've watched this several times before and every time I wonder what possessed that man to want to jump his new raptor 90 feet.

HOLY CRAP I never knew they could float! Seriously though that's pretty awesome, I have trouble getting that much air with my 4wheeler.

Thats Alabama speak for "freaking awesome!" BTW

Haha Roll Tide!

Yeah I had a '93 dodge ram that I bought from my uncle for a dollar (he had no plans to sell it to anyone and it just sat there so when I asked him he was like "why the hell not") and once we got it fixed I drove it for a while but it got like single digits in gas mileage so we let it sit and about a month later we couldn't get the thing to turn over no matter what we did. Ended up selling it to a scrap guy for 500 so I think it all worked out

Hahaha I have to admit I lurked around as a guest for a week or two before I signed up. Wanted to see what the community was like, and.....

Oh no I was raised to always stand up for myself and to never back down when I know I am right, however as the new kid on the block I felt it would be best to just respectfully back out of the conversation than start an argument with people more senior in years than me as well as more senior members on this forum. (Wasn't sure how the warning points systems work. For the most part people on here seem to be respectable but you never know.) I guess saying that I "concede defeat" was probably not the best choice of words, but oh well it's all behind us now.

That wasn't directly geared towards you, at the time of that post there had been like 50 something people that looked at this thread and only two had commented, you and someone else, and like the other guy said I thought this thread was over. So I just decided to bow out than to sit and try and argue my case or bring life back to the thread. And I wouldn't ever try and do it in my truck either even though I saw it happen personally. But I appreciate and accept you're apology, it gets hard sometimes to convey your actual emotion through the words you type on a computer and things tend to come across wrong. But hey for being a 20 year old vehicle that can still reliably get you and your family into and then OUT of some $h!t you'd never think it could, I think thats pretty amazing. Still though, I think a Pathy is one of those rare vehicles that is able to do whatever you ask of it; whether it's towing a fully loaded semi up an off ramp or taking you to the lake to spend some quality time with your family.

A teacher at a local elementary school has one that's got a lift kit and is sitting on some pretty big and aggressive looking A/T's. I've always wondered what exactly it was, looks like it would be a pretty fun thing to drive.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who didn't have permission to look at it.