Zibi

Is runnerman based out of BC?

Negatory little buddy. There are some truly ****** cars out there, take the 98 ford windstar my parents bought new because of their fantastic safety rating. That vehicle was the definition of lemon.

I feel your pain! http://www.nissanpathfinders.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=17239 Luckily our tractor didn't break down. Theres a thread on another forum I'm a member of where a couple nights ago some guys were up at the mud flats and a few of their vehicles stuck. A few burnt winches and calls for help later it took three winches simultaneously to pull out the final vehicle (a grand cherokee). They broke the front axle, but stayed with it over night and managed to get parts and fix it in the bush. Pretty crazy stuff.

My stock 96 (213000km) is similar. How much it hunts really depends on how I drive it...I do a lot of mountain driving and it isn't that well geared for it so sometimes the torque shift will just go back and forth between really high revs and low revs with little power. My 1-2 shift is a bit rough as well but I just had it serviced and attribute it more to old age. I just have to give it a bit to warm up and it's better.

Bit of a zomby thread, but... What did you decide? I was under my truck yesterday and realised that I actually do have a LSD on the rear...I'd never actually bothered to check. To be honest after getting stuck a few times I'd assumed I didn't as it didn't seem a whole lot better than any regular open-diff I'd driven. For sure it's not a locker...you might be less likely to lose total traction, but once a tire loses traction then you're completely spinning... I posted some pics a while back of getting stuck in the snow, and even though my back right was firmly planted on the ground it took 3 hours of digging because i was doing the diagonal opposite tires spinning. Not worth the money IMO. If you're doing the type of offroading where you require that much more traction then either invest in a locker or a more agressive truck.

Tomorrows task for me is to cut off the piece of fender right below the stock fog lights so I can fit the freebies I got from my Grampa. If they don't give me the space I'll damn well make it...

Well, spent some time rooting around. Not a bumper bracket, not a radiator bracket, not from the headlights, foglights, liscence plate. Only other things in that area up front are a couple fluid bottles which I suppose it could be from under but I couldn't find anything missing. Couldn't find any missing bolt holes anywhere in that area. I'm stumped, there are only so many things up there that it could possibly come from, and I searched everywhere short of actually removing my bumper and skid plate. I mean, apparently it's not that important since my car hasn't imploded, but the more I search the more I want to know what it is.

I need to know the answer to award the prize Taking it out to the garage tommorow and I'll get a look under it. Just need to get all the mud off it first

Anyone have any idea what this is? Off of a 1996 Pathfinder LE, I found it sitting on the bit of subframe under my radiator. I imagine it has something to do with holding on my bumper/fender, which is a bit warped itself. I powerwashed washed my truck a couple days ago and I imagine that knocked it off.

I've got the passenger side one off of a 1996 Pathfinder LE back home, same style?

Jumper cables, tow strap, some spare wiper blades that I won't need for a very long time but know I won't lose so long as they're in the truck.

Left half of my climate controls only light up sporadically, but I assumed I loosened the wire when I had the dash off a few weeks ago since thats more or less when the problem sprung up.

I'm sure most stock places are known to cops/border guards. If you're lazy, then I've found almost all the interior comes out fairly easy and theres a lot of room behind the back panels of my R50, but that won't do a whole lot if they get the dogs out.

My 96 LE is floorshift. Just a note though, when highway driving in snow put it in 2 wheel drive going dowhill, that will leave you more control should you lose traction. If you're just wanting to drive on snow covered roads then you'll likely never need 4lo unless you drive it into a ditch. I've found that my while my truck will skate a bit in RWD it's has extremely good traction in 4hi, especially considering I've got about 125lbs of sandbags and good snows on it. Certainly a good winter vehicle.

Couple previous threads:& http://www.nissanpathfinders.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=11299 http://www.nissanpathfinders.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=13355