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    November 2019 TotM Nominations

    in Truck of the Month

    Posted

    READ AND FOLLOW THE RULES!
    NOMINATIONS AND POSTS NOT CONFORMING TO THE RULES LINED OUT BELOW WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT NOTIFICATION.
    1. You can nominate only Pathfinder/Terrano/QX4 trucks belonging to Registered NPORA Forum Members. New members will have to wait 3 months and have a post count of 100 before they can be nominated. Members who are banned, currently on suspension or for 1 month after their return from suspension will also be disallowed.
    (If you are banned you won't be able to be nominated for 2 months).
    1a. Include the name of the NPORA Member who's truck it is that you're nominating (even if it is yours)
    2. NO FAKE OR JOKE ENTRIES.
    2b. Only original, unaltered photos with out graphics, advertisement or watermarks will be accepted for nomination. (Actual permanent stickers are allowable.)
    2c. Final acceptance of TotM Nominations pics and winner submissions is at the sole discretion of the NPORA Moderation Team.
    3. First 20 nominees are up for consideration and the nomination thread will be closed after the 20th submission or the 20th of the month, which ever comes 1st. Voting will be from 21st-31th.
    4. One pic per nomination post, pics must have at least 640x480 of usable image space for use in the in the official boarder in the event that it wins the popular vote.All nominations are subject to the approval of the Mod Team and all decisions are final. Try to make it a good one or nobody will vote for your nominee! A recent pic is preferred but if the Pathy is still in the same shape as your last pic, go ahead and use that. An offroad setting or action pic is also preferred, but not necessary.
    5. Only one truck nomination per member per month.
    5a. If multiple people want to nominate the same truck, it is up to the nominee to decide on which pic to run with. In the absence of the nominee, the decision will be made by NPORA Moderating Team
    6. Winner gets 3 pics of their choice of their Pathfinder pinned in the TOTM forum (PM me the links please) and is ineligible for the remainder of the calendar year.
    6a. A Member can only win once a year - multiple pathfinders does not mean multiple wins.
    7. No post whoring. P...
    8. Not reading these rules may result in a zombie attack. :D
     
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    TOTM: THEMED MONTHS

     

    The idea was put forward by packie88 with then intention of getting people out in their pathys to get themed shots.

     

    It is only each alternate month that is themed, so you can post up whatever pic you want in the in between month (Some people will never see snow).

     

    It is a kind of rule, but a loose one. For example, water crossing nominations may be considered if there is a mud crossing, the truck is in water, or crossing the road in a torrential rainpour. If you post up a pic with no water in sight, then that will be removed.

     

    Below are the monthly themes:

     

    January Anything goes

    February Snow pic

    March Anything goes

    April Water crossing pic

    May Anything goes

    June Sand pic

    July Anything goes

    August Flex pic

    September Anything goes

    October Sunset pic

    November Anything goes

     

     

    December Mud pic

     

    This nomination thread is open through November 20 or until 20 submissions are reached (whichever comes first).

    mjotrainbrain's Forbidden Build Thread

    in Off-Topic

    Posted

    Since the frame swap it's driven GREAT. I love the combination of 5100's and poly bushings, can definitely feel every bump in the road but on the flip side I can absolutely fly down trails up until I bottom out. (Fancy-ish bump stops are on the to-do list once stuff stops breaking.) Not missing the rear sway bar either; if anything I corner harder than ever now because the lean is fun. :bounce:

     

    Seems like everything I didn't replace is coming around to kick my butt. Had the driver's side CV completely fail at the outer joint, and with it being full time 4wd I had to lock the center diff to limp it home...slowly. 2 weeks later the wheel bearing on that side went out. Way way easier to replace on an R50, I hate how it's splined and clipped inside the diff on Toyota's. In the last month I've had the check engine light come on 3 times for P0430 which is "Catalyst System Efficiency Below Threshold, Bank 2" so I guess at this point I have to admit there really is something wrong. Might swap out the downstream O2 sensor on that side just in case, but I suspect it really is a cat. It needs manifolds anyways, really hoping I can push it off until sometime next summer. Pretty happy headers and high flow cats are cheaper than stock though, makes it hurt a bit less to spend money on something other than offroad stuff again.

     

    Oh, and also there's a drivetrain clunk that I haven't been able to find as well as a steering wheel shake, both have been intermittent for about the last 9-10 months but seem to be more regular now. May have to let a pro look into those, although IDK how I wouldn't have noticed something when it was all apart.

     

    So other than basically everything being broken, it's been awesome lol. Rolled over 190k last week too, not a bad start.

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    CANVAZ IX 2019 - Logendale, NV - 10/25-10/27

    in Trail Run/Events

    Posted

    Looks like some gnarly trails! I haven't made my way through the vids in their entirety yet, but it is disappointing to see the Pathy seem to struggle so much, I'll be really interested to see what the true culprit turns out to be. Would be cool to see a side by side comparison of auto/wire, manual/wire, auto/cable, and manual/cable to really narrow it down.

    What broke on your Pathfinder today?

    in The Garage

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Charlie_Brown said:

    Steel ties are a double edged sword. On one end it will protect against things like this, on another hand they have been known to slice your toes off. Better broken than severed. That's why a lot of places dont allow them. Personally I stick with steel toes

     

    I like composite toes, they'll protect to a point then break rather than bend. Plus they don't get cold in winter.

     

    If it came down to steel toes or nothing I'd take steel though.

    Welcome New Members !

    in New People Start Here!

    Posted

    On 10/28/2019 at 4:56 PM, supersteve said:

    New member. Dont know for how long. Wife wants me to get rid of my baby but im fighting all the way. Original owner 89 S.E. 209000 REGULAR MAINTENANCE.

     

    :welcome:

     

    Can't get rid of something that you have 30 years of history with, hang onto that thing!

    Wiring Harness

    in 96-2004 R50 Pathfinders

    Posted

    Not sure if the Nissan one is as detailed, but for my 4Runner the Factory Service Manual wiring diagrams are extremely detailed, telling you every connector and ground (and where they're located) that wiring for each system goes through, which may be handy in tracking this issue down a bit on paper before going nuts tearing your interior apart. It can be very frustrating trying to figure out where a wire comes out once it enters a dash loom and you can't see what's going on.

    Wiring Harness

    in 96-2004 R50 Pathfinders

    Posted

    If you're concerned about broken wires I'd find both ends (which will likely be spread across various plugs so it'll be a bit of a pain) and start doing some continuity testing with the ol' multimeter. I agree with Slart though, sounds to me like one major plug is messed up somewhere.

    Stock air intake on 2003

    in 96-2004 R50 Pathfinders

    Posted

    5 hours ago, joshrichard said:

    What about the sensor that hooks up to the whole thing? Is that going to throw any codes?

     

     

    Good point, forgot to mention that. The part you remove for my solution is where that sensor is normally mounted. I drilled a new hole in the side of the airbox for the sensor. Never had a code issue.

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    A/T fluid change questions

    in 96-2004 R50 Pathfinders

    Posted

    50 minutes ago, Mrelcocko said:

    So do you think it's a bad thing to change it? I have no idea when it was done last I've had it almost 3 years now and the guy that had it before me had it probably 12 to 13 years

    Sent from my SM-S367VL using Tapatalk
     

     

    A regular change is no big deal (like drain the pain and fill back up the appropriate level), the issue is a flush which is at a higher pressure and can loosen up that accumulated junk.

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    Random picture of your R50

    in 96-2004 R50 Pathfinders

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Mrelcocko said:

    What a great pic of your R50 and the landscape. Do we have a pic of the year topic@mjotrainbrain ?

     

    Sent from my SM-S367VL using Tapatalk

     

     

     

     

    There will be at the end of the year, Truck of the Year is handled by voting amongst the year's monthly winners. @YegorTheLlama hasn't won a month yet this year so if he or someone else were to submit this pic in an appropriate TotM nominations thread and won that month, the pic would be in the running for TotY.

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