joshualaw205

Hey all, Finally lifting my R50 after 25 years of family ownership. Old springs feel a little tired after 260,000 miles so I figured now is my opporotunity. I already picked up some Old Man Emu 2923 fronts and 2922 rears already, huge shoutout to Steven here on the forum with RuggedRocks Off-Road for finding me the coilovers! Anyway, I am pretty new to lifting (have only helped a friend lift a truck once before) and could use some help finding some struts. Steven mentioned that ARB doesn't make the accomopanying struts anymore, so I was hoping someone could make some strut recommendations. Same with shocks, I assume I'd need some new ones to accomodate the extra height and get the most out of the OME ride quality. If anyone could make some recommendations I would really appreciate it! Worth noting my Pathy is almost entirely stock so the new medium duty springs will likely lift the truck quite a bit. Thanks!

I saw that on Instagram a few days ago as well, super sad. I actually came here for some unrelated suspension info and this was the first thread to pop up in my search so I figured I owe it to Andrew to contribute to this mega thread of his. He was making such great progress on his rust removal project. If his family or anyone here decides to raise some money to get his project finished or just to help his family out, let me know. I don't have that much to give but I'd love to help do something nice. Condolences to his family, he'll be missed by his R50 family here too.

Sweet! I used to live in the Bay Area. Born in Chico up in the NorCal valley and lived there much of my life, but also had an apartment in the Gateway complex. Now I'm stuck in NorthEast Ohio due to location complications with my father's career ? I visit rather often though, so if I'm ever in the area I might just have to hit you guys up ?

Yep, any sort of decent trails are hella hard to find around here unfortunately ? But yes, back on topic! Those are some sweet nature shots. Cascades I'm assuming?

Ah okay, I live in Medina if you know where that is, not far from CLE at all. Most of the solid models I've been eyeing were 2015-16s. Difficult to go any newer from a buget perspective (moving to a nicer apartment somewhat soon), but 2013 is my absolute age limit due to your exact point about rusting issues. KDSS is definitely on my ideal requirement list, but it also might mean going with a slightly older model to balance cost. Also looking online for cars in VA and NC.

Looks great! It's crazy how unassumingly capable old Pathfinders and QX's are off road with some pretty basic modifications like small lifts, good tires, lockers, etc, so long as they're done right of course. Nice to see yet another smiling face enjoying an old R50 ? Welcome to NPORA by the way!

Thanks for the info! Glad you said something, because knowing myself I probably wouldn't have thought of that until I ran into the problem ? That's also some really good consumer advice on the 4Runner. At some point within the next few years I'll need a second car, something I can daily. I have too much sentimental attachment to my Pathy (I know thats not a good thing, but it's not exactly something I can change) and having moved to Ohio, the salt is just tearing up the poor old girl. I want something similar to my Pathfinder but newer, so I've been looking at 2013-2016 TRD Off-Road 4Runners since clearly the newer Pathfinders are out of the question (it's a shame what they've done to it, really). Anyway, that's my tangent for today lol.

Dang, that's a steal! I'll definetely have to look into those. Been considering getting a second set of wheels with more rugged tires to swap out for trails and harsh winters, but stock '99.5 SE wheels are almost impossible to find here in the midwest due to the rarity of any sort of R50s in the rust belt. And we have an abundance of 4Runners with TRD Pro wheels I actually found a half decent '00 SE with the same stock wheels at a junk lot a while back, but I took too long to jump on it and the whole vehicle had sold within days (which is probably for the best, it had a little body damage but was running perfectly fine and probably shouldn't have been junked anyway). Since then I've been looking at some other various wheels from similar vehicles that might look good on the old girl and that would be easier to find and much cheaper. I've also considered those same FJ wheels before (a buddy of mine has an '11 FJ Cruiser and he let me try his spare stock wheels on the Pathy for a little while) but they looked a little off on my truck for some reason.

Hahaha that's awesome! You know, those SR5 wheels actually look pretty sick on the R50...

If anything opens up in the Michigan area, let me know! I’m in Ohio so that would be totally doable for me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I actually incorporated my Pathy into my Halloween decorating. I found a phantom-zombie looking guy in my basement to put in the drivers seat. Bought some red bulbs for the dome lights and rigged a fog machine to spray towards the headlights to get a nice spooky feel. I’m really bummed I didn’t get any pics of it, because it was pretty dang sweet! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nice Pathy! I love the diamond-patterned SE grille that you and I have. What are your plans? Keeping it stock or modding (and if so what mods)?

Very good to know. Snagged a set of plastic OEMs from Pull-A-Part for like $20 a couple days ago, but I might try to find a glass set in the future. Thanks everybody for all the info! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Interesting, so they clearly did make OEM glass fogs. I see your truck is a 1997, which should have the same fogs as my '99.5 Pathy. I wonder if the glass ones were reserved for QX4s? Also, would you by any chance consider selling that glass set?

Finally put in that fuel pump kill switch after weeks of procrastinating. Kill switch was sucessfully installed, however in the proccess I broke the overhead sunlgass compartment where I decided to put the switch. The hinge pins completely snapped off of the compartment door, and I can't quite figure out how to glue the peices back together whilst it's in position. Anybody know if there's any way to remove that whole overhead panel?