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    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

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    Oh ok, that's good then! I was concerned that perhaps you had hit a very unpleasant bump while having some fun in a field. Sounds like it was fun!

    So much fun. This weekend was the first trip out with another 4x4 vehicle, so I could really test its limits without the worry of getting stuck or breaking down. Immediately got stuck in the sand when we got to our spot, so I'm going to try and trade my 29" tires for some 31" and get an air compressor as my next upgrade.

     

     

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    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

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    :ohno01: How did that happen??? Thank goodness nothing broke!

    I'm pretty good about judging speed and stuff and was going for that perfect speed to get the kind of weightless feeling over this smallish hill on the dirt road, but apparently going a little too fast over it. I would guess we only got about a foot or 3 off the ground for like 4 or 5 feet of length. It was pretty fun haha and we landed perfectly flat so the suspension absorbed the impact really well. I was impressed. These trucks are tanks that's for sure.

     

     

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    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

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    Finished removing the hot air thermo element thing from my air box and sealing it shut for the snorkel. Re-routed some wires and fired it up for the first time in a month and it fired right up.

     

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    The mixture heater under the throttle body? I read they can dump bad stuff in the cylinders when they fail. I need to remove mine.

     

     

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    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

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    Finished removing the hot air thermo element thing from my air box and sealing it shut for the snorkel. Re-routed some wires and fired it up for the first time in a month and it fired right up.

     

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    The mixture heater under the throttle body? I read they can dump bad stuff in the cylinders when they go bad, I need to remove mine.

     

     

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    Center of gravity height

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    I could figure out roll center by measuring suspension stuff, but calculating the center of gravity from scratch would be pretty difficult. I would try some google searching, I'm sure the info is out there somewhere.

     

     

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    Have a cool idea for led lightbar placement

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    If I had a 2 door like yours I'd look for the OEM Targa band light bar. You might even be able to get it brand new by looking around. Its part number 999F3W7000.

     

    https://www.factorynissanparts.com/parts/1988/Nissan/Pathfinder/SE/index.cfm?siteid=214081

     

    With the targa bar you could put on a much larger LED bar. There are a quite a few members here that have them and I think they look amazing.

    Just looked it up and that looks awesome.

     

     

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    Have a cool idea for led lightbar placement

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    It will probably take some good modification, but if I can find one the correct size I'm going to try and fit some in the 3 front face hood vents on my 2 door. b8c91a9348f50bc7b60236acc69b357f.jpg As far as I can tell they are cosmetic vents made from plastic. Just gotta find some single row lights 1"x10" if they even exist. Clearance is tight in there, I'll have to cut some metal and make sure there is enough for shutting the hood without hitting the lights, or mount the lights into the hood itself. I think it would bad ass with 3 skinny lights like that above my existing HID's.

     

     

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    Oil change interval for my driving habits and type of oil to run

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    There is no issue from switching back and forth from synthetic to conventional oil. Old seals might leak with synthetic, but thats it.

    I usually run rotella T5 synthetic blend diesel oil or a high mileage syn blend. Cleans up the sludge pretty well.

     

    High zinc oil is good for our flat tappet engines. Valvoline VR1 or Amsoil ZRod.

    Just the answer I'm looking for. Thanks Elton John.

     

     

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    Oil change interval for my driving habits and type of oil to run

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    My truck is 28 years old with 132,000 miles on the original vg30i. I'm wondering what kind of oil is best and how often to change it. I drive 600 miles a week: 100mi 5 days a week all highway for school(75-80mph @~3500rpm), and around 100mi city driving for work as a delivery driver.

    I've only changed the oil 3 times since I bought it in November. My memory is hazy, but I'm pretty sure the first two times were with mobile 1 high mileage oil, I'm not sure if that is synthetic or dino oil and I went about 5000 miles between changes. This last time I put cheapo Walmart brand non synthetic oil in it and plan on changing it at 2500-3000miles.

     

    I think the start up valve tap noise that lasts for a second or two has been louder with the walmart oil but could be my imagination. Sometimes it's loud and sometimes it's not there at all on cold start.

     

    Should I be doing synthetic or non synthetic in it? I don't know what was ran in it for most of its life and I heard it could be not so good no change from one to the other. The truck doesn't leak oil from anywhere and runs like a champ. Best engine I've had in any car I've owned by how it's been been performing lately.

     

     

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    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

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    I used small round felt tips from Walmart with sticky backing. The factory nipples are hard to get off without breaking them. It's been over a year and my cruise still works perfect.

     

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    That's a great idea!

     

     

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    Should my pitman arm be separated from the gear box like this?

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    Nothing more than what you see there. I rebuilt my gearbox because it was leaking and there isn't anything additional to it. It appears as though you may want or need to consider doing the same.

    Yeah I was just doing some research. It's one of the fluids I haven't replaced yet since I got it. I'm hoping the seals will do the trick.

     

     

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    Redneck Lift kit.

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    Well see Ive read on here that the jeep springs dont offer much lift. There was a guy on here saying something else besides the jeep spring

     

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    I think brand new they're good, but some junkyard springs are too worn? I remember reading that thread but it was a while ago.

     

     

     

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    Mocked up a quick design for the roof rack I'm making soon for my 1989

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    What did you make this on?

    This is on solidworks 2015b. I've had access to it for years, but just finally started taking the time to learn it. It can be very frustrating!! This was my 4th or 5th attempt at it. I tried doing round tube at first but it was not as easy.

    The tutorials are good for it, they teach you pretty much everything if you do all of them. I've only done the beginner ones to get the gist of it and it helped a lot. My buddy has been using fusion to do some thermo simulation for a research thingy, and he agrees that there is much more to that program for modeling than solidworks. He is having a very hard time with it, and he got his certification for solidworks last year so that definitely says something.

     

     

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