jimmycapp

No thanks. Just another registration to expire and more tires to maintain (I've already got more than enough of both). Rear springs are cake to swap. And now the rear doesn't look bottomed with the 31's.

Nope. Stock front springs in the front and stock front springs in the back.

Haha. They snapped after removing , installing, and trying to remove again (lift install and out-stall)

Yes, I had the ac lift springs on it, but the front was always topped out;sitting still, driving. So I took those out, but was extremely unhappy with the rear springs. I measured the stock rear coil diameter, ac rear diameter, and front stock diameter, and the fronts measured right in the middle. I didn't do anything special when I put them in, tho, since the bolt that holds the bumpstops in the frame snapped off, so I bolted it to the lower spring rest.

Stock rims for a 2004.

Unloaded Loaded-granted, the bike only weights 226LBS

I run a dirtbike carrier on my pathfinder. The first time I put it on with a bike, it bottomed out the suspension, with it parked. I had some front springs lying around and threw those in. Sits a little raked with no load, but sits and rides perfect with the bike on, or a full load of firewood in the back. Too dark out now for some side shots, but I'll post some tomorrow. Cheers, James

Couple tips for guys with the 3.5. I changed the filter in my 04 a couple weeks ago, you DON'T need to remove the EXHAUST, or CROSS MEMBER. The exhaust is run differently so it's not in the way. The cross member seems to look the same compared to the pictures above, but a 1/4 drive deep socket slips right in, i had no problem getting at those 2. Have a rough idea of how much fluid you drain, it will help when refilling. I use an empty drain pan, drain the fluid, then pour into one of those 4 or 5 quart oil change jugs. Look on the side at how much you took out, then refill with that amount as a starting point. Oh, and be careful torquing the bolts on the pan, I set my wrench for 12 ftlbs and snapped a bolt.

Thanks for the responses. Since I was replacing the struts, I already had them out, and the cv came right out. Thanks!

The strut assembly will be off the truck when I'm doing this, which should help. Thanks

sooooo, do I have to un-bolt the lower?

Manual says remove lower control arm mounting bolts. I thought I red on here a while ago that this wasn't neccesary. Thought? James

I have some bearing chirp coming from my passenger side. I think it has to be p/s or alt because it did it on the old motor, and the p/s and alt are used on the new one. I'll try the hose trick to narrow it down. Good thinkin!

It came from an 04 pathfinder. Drove her to work today. Runnin smooth, man I missed her.

WOOOOOOOT!!!!! She runs! Just started her up 15 minutes ago, then sucked down a cold one. Install when much faster than removal. I found that the 2 top tranny bolts are incredibly easy to get to with 3 feet of extensions and a U joint. When I took them out it was hard and painfull and took about 20 minutes to get them out. I still need to bring her up to temp and top off coolant + tranny fluid. And then clean the disaster of a garage I have, for my grad party on saturday (only took me six years ) Cheers