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they dont make them anymore

you can weld a bearing race of a similar size into that spot in order to fix that.

If you swap sleeves for a shorter one - which would be a good idea - you might be able to just take your spindle to a local shop and have them pull the sleeves off for free. a place near me did it for me, it only took about 5 seconds too.

LOL. yeah, I was just thinking I might get the old "the bumper is not designed for a pathfinder so it wont work" runaround

Thanks GG! since the frames are the same, i dont see why relocating the bumper mount 1.5" up wouldnt be a solution for people doing a 2" BL. that would only leave a .5" gap, or .5" of metal could be added to the mount to make it the full 2". I'm going to get some HB bumper brackets off of RockAuto (about $4 a piece) and see if they are any different to the ones on my pathfinder now.

think they would tell me? lol

lol, yeah, i might just have them welded on and go with it. it wont give me any more clearance to have them higher anyways, and its handy having a step sometimes - like cleaning the truck or doing stuff to the roof. if the 4x4 HBs have a 1" or 2" BL that would mean the bumper mounting bracket would be taller in order to make it mount up with the rest of the body right? couldnt we just replace the pathfinder ones with these to mount the bumper up to? according to all the scematics they have the same mount points, but it would lift up the bumper to the right place or at least closer to it.

thanks guys, i was thinking maybe a 2" gap wouldnt really be too bad and as you say would give me a step. would they still protect the rockers just as much then? also - for the ARB bumper, are we all quite sure that the Hardbody's have that 2" BL from the factory? I see a lot of HBs that sit very very low.

what about using two RH springs from the disco?

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Yeah, you are right B. I may as well do it right the first time and be able to sell that bumper afterwards.

Yeah, but I have a stock winch bumper too. I dont think I can relocate that.

Yeah I was thinking thats the sensible thing to do. Its just irritating because the only real reason I want the bodylift is to be able to fit the Hardbody ARB bumper on the truck (as the Pathfinder ARB is no longer around). But I can't afford the hardbody bumper right now so I guess the whole thing will have to wait. Or do people think it would be a better idea to not get a bodylift, find a place that has some remainder pathfinder ARB's or a used one, and then SAS later to get more lift? I'm not even sure I want to SAS is the thing.

SO my wonderful girlfriend bought me some 67" trailgear rocksliders with the gusset kit for my birthday. She will give them to me in about 2 weeks and I'm very excited to get them on. However, in the future I'd like to put a 2" body lift on the truck. How hard is it to remove and re-mount the sliders if I put a body lift on? will cutting them off and remounting them compromise the strength of the legs? or should I really do the lift first and then put the sliders on?

i would say 15x8 is a better choice for 32x11.5

the stock alloy wheels. like the ones on my truck

swapping heads is easy

car-parts.com has a lot of 87-97 manual steering boxes listed. your pitman was shot? or your idler arm?

I have the Taurus electric fan mod so dont have a fan shroud. The loud tick has gone since I changed the oil though, so it was just a lifter deprived of oil. I'll be taking the tranny out over summer and replacing the rear main.

im in the process of writing this up..... ask me whatever questions you want though.

what he said ^ spray it with electrical cleaner to get all the gunk off.

you mean the small ticking noise? i think thats what it was. I did an oil change and the noise is gone - so far. No metal shavings or bits in the oil or the filter. Only about 1.5quarts came out when I drained it, and then another 1 or so from the filter. so thats 2 quarts I was down on oil!!! My rear main leak is worse than I thought. I'll just have to make damn sure I have 4+ quarts of oil in there.

yeah, thats what id do

mine too. i think they are supposed to be faint in the day. 4 runners are the same too ive noticed.

i think it was 88 that did the spacer