mjotrainbrain
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Nice looking Pathfinder! They sure do look good in black. I'm about to get Fleury's lift, so I'll let you know how that goes.
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I know it has locking hubs, and I am referring to the differential. I can't find anything anywhere that would suggest that it has them either, but from experience using it (both in the dirt and on dry pavement) I feel quite certain that the front differential locks when I engage 4HI or 4LO. Perhaps the PO modified it? I can't imagine that they did though, as it seems as if they had never taken it offroading, let alone hard enough to justify a upgrading to a locker.
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Yeah, I'm going to have to do something about the spring eventually, especially considering a tow a trailer fairly frequently. I just went this route because it was a cheap way to get the job done, and I can't afford a full set of coils at the moment. It's funny how it looks kind of blue in the pictures, but it's actually black!
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I'm not good with names, so don't count on any ideas from me! Gear swap will be quite the job. You should post pics of the transformation, even if it's 'just' swapping parts over.
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Decided to stop by a fun little place called Bass Creek to celebrate it finally being the weekend. It's not a place that you could spend more than 30 minutes at, but it's closer than any trail that I know of and is a great way to get in my off-road fix.
I didn't have anyone else with me, so I couldn't get any pictures or videos going through the mud. Sorry guys, I'll try to get some next time! Anyways, I did manage to get some flex shots on a convenient pile of dirt.
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Nice looking Q! This is more or less how mine's going. I never thought of painting my tri-spokes black, it looks much better than chrome. I look forward to following your build!
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Thanks! Lift kit should be here in about a week, so that's exciting.
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I was going through my phone and found this picture from a couple of months ago. It's a neat little spot on the shore of the Grand River. Looks like it might be a pretty good fishing spot, so I'll have to try it out some time.
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Thank you very much for the compliments and the warning, I'll have to be careful with those fog lights. Under what conditions do they crack? Is it when the bumper is bumped?
In response to your question about the front locker, I actually haven't looked into it very much beyond knowing that my truck has one. It very well could be an Infiniti exclusive feature. All I know is it is there and it works, as I quickly found out the first time I drove on dry pavement with 4wd engaged!
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Nice Pathy! I like not seeing any body rust. If I were you I would go ahead and try to touch up the seal. If it doesn't work, what have you lost? It's worth a shot, and if it works it was free.
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Thanks! I am looking forward to the build too.
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I am sad to see your truck go. It was one of those trucks that symbolizes what is possible, pushing IFS and Nissan to the extreme! I'm going to miss hopping onto NPORA every day to see if you've done any more upgrades!
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I will be adding stuff to this thread as I do things with the truck. It won't be a terribly fast build, but stuff will definitely happen.
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Hi all!
I have had my 2002 Infiniti QX4 for about 8 months now, have been reading forums on NPORA very often since I discovered it, and just today finally decided to make an account.
My R50 has the 3.5L engine, an automatic transmission, about 125,000 miles, a locking front differential, and a limited slip rear differential. Also, I am fortune in that it has very little rust, especially for a Michigan vehicle.
Here is a picture of it on my very first wheeling trip from fall of 2015. At this point zero mods had been made, bone stock. This was the day that I realized what a capable machine it was. And yes, that is a Hyundai Santa Fe behind it. So no, I wasn't pushing it very hard that day.
Since then I have done a couple of upgrades:
-Westin step rails (stock parts rusted away so I needed something, rock sliders were too expensive)
-Weather Tech floormats
-Tail light guards
-Reese trailer hitch
-Resonator delete
This is a picture of it a few weeks ago on my second wheeling trip.
Now that the school year is almost over (only 4 more weeks!) and summer is upon us, I hope to get a lot more opportunities to go offroading and enjoy what the R50 is best at. I don't know when it will arrive, but I ordered Fleury's spacer lift a couple of days ago - 2 inches rear, 2.5 inches front, so I'm looking forward to that.
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It's too bad you had to give up on Betsy after so many months working on this major update, but it'll be nice to have a clean slate to work off of! The new truck looks real clean.
mjotrainbrain's Build Thread
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So is the difficulty when turning on pavement due to the center diff being locked? My parents never owned 4x4s and this is my first one, so I'm still inexperienced with what they're like in the real world.