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Unless you just messed up the belt while changing a water pump or some such, you're out of luck; you have a 99.999995% chance that you smacked a valve into a piston. It's not even a question. Both mechanics are correct. If you dismantle the front of the engine down to the point where you can replace the timing belt, you're also at the point where you can replace the pump, main seal, tensioner, and most of the related parts with little or no additional labor (or cost). But if you do all that labor, then even partially assemble the timing stuff to do a compression check, you're going to have to tear it all back down again if it fails. And it probably will. The second mechanic is trying to save you more money, IMHO. Either way, you are looking at a head rebuild/replacement as a best case scenario. You may be better served by putting a used JDM engine in the truck instead, of course.

Cherokees are unibodies, and therefore they are CARS.

The coroner's best guess was a heart attack, at which point the unguided Jeep went off the road and into the very tall grasses in the non-mow area. While the area was searched repeatedly when he was reported missing, the grasses had sprung back and the Jeep with its contents was only found by accident years later. IIRC, he'd been missing for 8 years. From the pictures I saw of the scene, unless he'd had a 15' tall whip antenna with an orange flag on top deployed when he was driving down the road, nobody would have found *any* vehicle in that grass.

Yeah, that happens. They found the body of some Austin guy just off a main highway in a grass copse, still in his Jeep, a couple of years ago. And then there's this: http://www.wishtv.com/global/story.asp?s=8039063 Body found in Jeep identified as missing Plainfield man Posted: March 19, 2008 09:13 AM PLAINFIELD, Ind. (WISH) - The body found in the Jeep recovered from a Glen Haven subdivision retention pond has been identified as Harold Brad Hensley. The ID was made based on dental records. According to the Hendricks County coroner, the initial autopsy revealed no evidence of significant injuries or trauma but no cause of death has been determined at this time. Brad Hensley was last seen leaving his Plainfield home in January of 2006.

Except that if he buys an LS1, he'll get two or three times the horsepower and it won't spazz out and die at high angles like carbed engines do.

Yeah - but I'm a little pressed for time. It's in the archives - do a search for "timing belt tension".

Let me guess - no mudflaps, right?

Try replacing the wiper arm and spring along with the wiper blade. The entire rear wiper arm is **$15** or less at the dealer.

I think you set your timing belt tensioner too tight.

The one on my 85 Turbo Z and the one on my 93 Pathfinder both had double key slots, in line behind each other. It does matter, because if you don't have both, nothing's stopping the unkeyed one from rotating freely.

Um... I don't see a fuse anywhere in there. Please tell me you have some sort of fuse in-line there!

For obvious reasons, the WD21s are the best for offroading. The current F-Alpha based Pathfinder has equal promise, but right now it has *no* aftermarket at all and may never have one.

I'll take the fender flares and mudflaps if you don't want them. I can swap you for some "wingless" type hinges.

Active jammers are illegal without an FCC license (which, to be honest, is rather easy to get). Passive jammers are just plain ineffective. Some of the new cameras reportedly have "pic on jam" features so they just start snapping pics when they get jammed. Pretty easy to figure out who had the jammer then. A better way of dealing with it is judicially. If you have the time, money, and a lawyer, fight the ticket on civil rights issues and get photo radar banned by the courts. Here in Texas, we didn't bother. Automated unmanned photo radar, as of the last legislative session, is permanently banned in the state of Texas.

Yes, but this person is reporting that it's magically getting MORE coolant. My guess is a cracked head or head gasket.

Port yes, polish no. The intake tract MUST be rough. The reason the K&N does better is because it's not stuffed in the restrictive airbox that came from the factory and can therefore flow more air.

The variable length manifold trick, if defeated, will destroy your low end torque. Contrary to what the old hotrodders thought, smoothing or polishing the intake runners will actually HURT power production. As computer flow modelling has shown, you need turbulence in the incoming air stream to help create the swirl in the combustion chamber. To do that, you need some roughness in the intake runners. In this era of tight emissions standards and tighter fuel economy standards, if polishing the runners was going to provide any benefits, you'd see makers doing it. Not even Ferrari polishes the inside of their intake manifolds. Do try to keep up with the latest in engine tech and research will you? :D

When did you last do the timing belt? This sounds like the timing belt jumped time.

Pics, please. I haven't seen any 95 US WD21s down here with underseat vents, and I've seen plenty of them in the boneyards. Not saying yours doesn't have it, I've just not seen them and I want to see what they look like.

There isn't one in the 90-95's either, so I think we can conclude that the WD21 never had it in the US.

There's no factory air ducting to the back seat, what they're talking about is the floor rusting out and letting cold air in.

Yes, it's been covered already. Long story short, use the NGKs that Nissan specified for best results.

My thoughts exactly. If a non-Nissan accessory belt goes, it's not the end of the world. If a non-Nissan water pump goes bad, you get to redo everything on the front of the engine...

A Nissan unit isn't much more than the $50 Autozone ones. Now, I'm being unnecessarily paranoid, I suppose, but since the timing belt is critical and a bad waterpump can lead to a broken engine when the timing belt snaps, I tend to go genuine Nissan for that.

You either have a short, your fuel pump has an obstruction that it can't roll through, or your fuel pump is screwed. Take off the access panel and check it.