Little Mule

Thanks. BTW, the seller's ID on ebay was chk_this_out. He was good to work with.

I just found out Exedy owns Daiken, so I bet there products are the same.

Anyone know if Daiken and Exedy clutches are the same. (ie, exactly the same but sold under different names?)

I tend to drive it hard, but I don't hold the clutch in unnecessarily. So I'm not sure why it didn't last. I wonder if something else may be wrong or if they just put in a crappy clutch last time. I didn't trust that mechanic.

One more. The guy helping me said he can get this clutch kit for me for $250. http://www.borgwarnerbrand.com/brute_force/brute_force2.htm

Okay, I found someone to help me do it. (ie. He does most of the work and I help a out.) I'm fine with that. But I have a new question. Any recommendations on a brand or type of clutch? I think I should upgrade some. I dug through my old receipts and someone charged me $890 to do this 50,000 miles ago. I want the new one to last longer than that. (I know, probably a driver problem.) I saw one by a company called Exedy for $129 on ebay. I saw some by Centerforce on AC ranging from $330 -$390. Then there are Nissan parts from the dealer. I haven't checked out their parts yet. Give me some suggestions quick so I can get my truck fixed. Thanks.

Thanks 88. I've gotten a lot out of this website in the little time I've known about it. I thought I should give a little back. I'm doing more and more fixing up my "little mule." A little time and money makes it more valuable to me, and keeps me wanting to drive it, which ultimately saves tons of money be keeping me away from a new car lot. Plus, my Pathy has character unlike most new SUV's. Long live triangular windows and 2 doors!

and here is what the guages read as I was positioned in that last photo. It is kind of gimmicky, but neat too. The altimeter reads in meters in case you are interested. Sorry about the lack of an extreme action photo, but this weekend was more of a search for fish than wheeling. I hope to get a better photo soon. But as of know I gotta go look at my clutch. Hope it helps any who is interested.

Its not extreme action, but here is a pic of my truck leaving our campsite and going down into a small wash...

Snap and screw your air vents back in place. Connect your cig lighter, and screw in your center dash panel and you are done. Here is the after pic of my dash with it in place.

Here is what it looks like underneath with the screw coming through the metal clip. After screwing the bracket into all four metal clips, thread your wires through the center hole and down past the AC controls and radio. Screw your guages into the mounting bracket, and screw the cover into the top of the bracket. You will need a short stubby screwdriver for that because the windshield is in the way for a long screwdriver. I still need to hook up my wires. I'm going to do as 88 suggested earlier and hook them up to the dimmer switch.

Here is a picture of the mounting bracket in place.

Carefully snap the metal clips into the holes in the dash. They fit perfectly and are snug. The metal clips have a hole in the top for a screw.

You need some metal clips like this one already in the dash. I tried Checker auto parts, but they didn't have anything like it. The clerk there said she had never even seen anything like it. So I tried 2 Nissan dealers. Neither had any in stock, so I had to wait 4 days as they ordered them. I'm sorry, but I lost the receipt, so I can't tell you what part number they are. If I find it, I'll post it.

Here is the pic of the nails protruding through the top of the dash, and my bracket over them. This enabled me to find where the holes in the back of the dash need to be. After I figured this out, I took a scapel blade and cut out holes in the top of the dash as seen in that last picture. I also made a small hole in the middle to run the wires through.

Ok. After you have the air vents out, if you look into the space where they were, and luck up under the dash, you will see 4 square holes in the plastic. 2 are towards the front, and 2 are towards the back. The front holes are about 2.5 inches ahead of the back. The holes are also 6 inches apart from side to side. This perfectly matches up witht he 4 holes of the bracket used to mount the altimeter/clinometer guages. Figure out where those holes correspond to the top of the dash. I did it by putting 2 small nails through the front holes, putting my bracket on over the protruding nails, and then circling the back bracket holes on the dash.

Here is a pic of the for plastic tabs on top of the air vent housing. I had to push these down to get it out.

Then carefully take out the air vents. You need to remove 3 more obvious screws. There are four plastic retaining tabs that you can push down with a thin flat head screwdriver. You may also need to slightly push away the edges of the dash pad if they overlap the vent housing.

So I removed the center dash panel. I pulled out the ashtray, and took out 4 screws in the red circles in this photo. Then disconnect the cig lighter wires.

As I said, I didn't want to use adhesive tape, because the bracket stands too tall. This would leave an unsightly gap between this gauges and my dash. I can't have my pretty Pathy be unsightly. The pic of the gap:

Okay, I'm made it back. Barely. Clutch problems, but that's another topic. If you know anything about a clutch, click here and help a fella out. http://npora.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtop...t=0entry11943 Anyway, back to the altimeter/clinometer. Here is picture of my dash before I started.

Hi all, I was coming back from a weekend trip and started to have some problems. I believe it is my clutch. I have an 88 Pathy SE w/ V6 and manual tranny. In second, 3rd, and 4th gears, as I would get moving, the engine would accelerate faster than the car as if the clutch were slipping. Checking Chilton's and Haynes repair manuals, it sounds like is tis a worn pressure plate or clutch plate, or an oil soaked clutch plate. It could also be debris int e master cylinder, a damaged clutch hydraulic line, or a weakor damaged diaphragm spring. Anyone have a similar experience? Do you think I am correct in my diagnosis? And the biggest question is do you think a relative novice can handle this repair? The most complicated things I've done is replace my rear springs with JGC springs, repair my gas/temp guage volt regulator, and install a JDM altimeter/clinometer on top of my dash. I managed those w/ help from this website. So I'm not sure how difficult a clutch repair/replacement is, and whether I should try it or fork over the money to a mechanic. Thanks.

Cool. I got it installed. It was easy. I took pics of the process. But you have to wait until Monday. I'm going fishing this weekend and hope to take an action photo for you. I need to go get my fishing gear ready now.

Avoid the dealer unless it's under warrenty. They charged me $.62 for a little dash screw and $1.64 for a little metal clip. Both would probably be $.10 together at a hardware store. I'd would have gone to the hardware store if it wouldn't had cost me $2.00 in gas.

Doesn't an electric fan help too? My understanding is that an electric fan saves the engine from turning the fan and thus decreases wasted horsepower. Probably doesn't help much though. You can also go buy a new Pathfinder. Everytime I get out of my 88 Pathy and get into my wife's 01 Pathy, I feel like I'm sitting in a rocket.