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    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

    in The Garage

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    31's... check.

    new brakes all around... check

    new rust... check.

    Broken alternator adjuster... still check..

     

    Been gone for a little while guys, just got out of the hospital. Had a few broken ribs, a torn shoulder (everything in it), a broken nose and a severe concussion, with random loss of consciousness (thus the extended hospital stay)

    I'll only tell the story because its pretty wild, but here goes.

     

    About a month ago a buddy of mine turned 21, and I agreed to DD his birthday celebration at a club in Denver (oh joy). Anyways, hes a trust fund kid from California, so he has all sorts of toys, including a 450+ HP Evo X, black, murded out and all. Anyways, the weather on the way there wasn't looking too great, as we've had a lot of rain in Colorado over the last month or so. When we came back outside at around 4 am, the ground was soaked as it had dumped rain but wasn't raining anymore. The drive back to Boulder, where we live, is a straightshot down the highway, so we were cruising right around 80-85 mph when we hit a flooded part of the road, just as I was changing lanes to get off at our exit. I didn't see it until it was too late, and we began to hydroplane literally instantly. Now, I'm the president of the rally racing team at the University of Colorado, so an uncontrolled slide wasn't really all that surprising to me. What caught me off-guard was the uneven braking that his car gave me when I attempted to slow us down. With no control of the car whatsoever, we slid into those big yellow barrels they put in front of the guard rails of off-ramps, at a speed of about 65, according to the police report. I don't even remember the impact or anything from then until we arrived at the hospital, me all sorts of messed up and my buddy passed out drunk with just a cut forehead. I owe my life to the safety measures put in place by Colorado Highway Patrol and to the outstanding crash resistance of the Evo X, and to the 12-point Cusco roll cage in his car. Had we been in my Pathfinder, it is very likely that we both would have been dead, albeit also would have hit the barrier at a far slower speed. I am just grateful to be alive and to be able to learn from my experience.

     

    Hope you all have been doing well, and that your trucks have been treating you nicely.

    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

    in The Garage

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    they gave me the wrong belt :thumbsdown:

     

    Replaced all of my belts today.... $45 cuz all NAPA had was the good ones (guess I can't complain) No more slipping and squealing!!

    Unfortunately, when I was tightening the alternator adjuster, the bolt head sheared, so I had to leverage a crowbar against the alternator in order to set the tension.. booo

    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

    in The Garage

    Posted

    As much as I've loved having my timing advanced slightly (more high-rpm power), I think its time to go back to standard. The lack of low-end torque is starting to get annoying from stoplights, especially now that its no longer cold out, so the truck doesn't stay at 1500 until it warms up. Before, it would usually warm up right as I got on the highway, so the stoplights up to the highway were buttery-smooth shifts.

    The advanced timing leaves a torque gap at around 1700-2200 rpm, so its more work than normal to rev match. Oh well... goodbye 19mpg highway!

    Where oh where has my LSV gone?

    in 90-95 WD21 Pathfinders

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    End of the day, the ABS on these trucks is useless and only in the rear so its better to just forget its even there and drive old school with threshold braking.

    Yea, considering that my rear drums probably can't even lock my rear wheels up, I considered it a reasonable thing to just remove the ABS control box.

    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

    in The Garage

    Posted

    I'm allowed to have fun too :(

     

     

    Took the roof rack off today, since riding season is just about over and I wanted to get some mileage back. Ended up getting 19 on an impromptu trip to Glenwood Hot Springs!!!

    Quick question for those of you that have owned your trucks for a while. My injectors seem to occasionally have an issue priming, but only when its warm outside. This causes hard starts, and it doesn't start on the first revolution of the crank like usual. Any suggestions on what might be causing this?

    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

    in The Garage

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    Sorry but I gotta call BS on that, because unless you sanded/stripped it, there is no way that "all" of the clear coat is gone, without... at the minimum... serious damage to the white underneath it.

     

    My clear coat is in sorry shape, but it's not even close to all being gone. Most but not all of the hood, then the tops of the fenders, panel below windshield, top portions of the rear fender budges' all have patches of no clear coat or spotted areas.. but most of it is there and the red will be gone in spots long before the rest of the clear is gone.

    You knew I wasn't being literal.... thats why I didn't bold/italicize/underline the statement in my original post

    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

    in The Garage

    Posted · Edited by CO_pathfinder

    Did you strip your paint that much doing paint correction that now it's all gone or what happened? You could respray a new clear coat. Imperfections would hardly be visible on white.

     

    There were a lot of those little rust spots forming on it when I bought it, and in the process of removing them, most of the clear coat was removed. Only the rear quarters still shine w/o heavy waxing

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