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U sure this has nothing to do with your tapping noise?? has that gotten worse? any new noises or rythems lately?
lol, was about to edit my post and say that the tapping noise is very audible now and doesn't go away any more, but is still intermittent.
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sorry, yeah, when i accelerate after being stopped it sputters badly too until she gets going a bit
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file a complaint about the sheriff detaining you. could also go to the media and embarrass them for doing that too. and your friend should appeal the restraining order if he can.
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so I started up my truck today to drive to college and she started sputtering and sounded really rough when in park, but mostly in drive while sitting with my foot on the brake.
When she gets going she sounds normal, but every time I have to stop at a red light or something the sputtering happens again. Feels almost as if she is going to stall.
Same thing happened on the way back from college.
haven't done codes yet
From what I've read on here I was thinking: oxygen sensor? distributor cap and rotor? fuel filter(cept i just replaced it) timing belt slippage?
thoughts?
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*bump
any word on how they were? i need to do mine soon.
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sorry, need a little more notice than a week to drive all that way
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looks very slick!
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check your fuses too. if the fuel filter fuse is gone you wont get gas to your engine.
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well we cant stick around here forever! lol.
as long as i get my pathfinder fixed before I checkout I'm good to go, haha
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anyone know if the lifters have a check valve for holding pressure and adjustment? My dodge lifters do and the tick is almost nonexistent. As things wear out, the lifters adjust their length and hold it via a rear chamber with a ball check-valve inside it. If there is nothing to hold the lifters at length then you will get tapping as the oil pressure builds and 'inflates' them. maybe I'll tear one apart and take a look. If they do have an adjustment mechanism, it may have failed and a replacement might be needed. Not trying to set-off any alarms telling you to replace your lifters, just thinkign about possible causes for an abnormal tick.
no worries, all advice is really appreciated. if they have failed the parts are covered under warranty (labor isnt though...)
so i was checking out the sound again today. you cant hear anything with the hood closed after shes all warmed up. However with the hood open, messing with throttle the clack/tick comes back.
still a stuck lifter?
btw, when i open up the oil fill cover and look inside what kind of movement should I see?
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just some info that is interesting:
When California has its next big earthquake they are predicting over 4 million refugees will flood into Arizona. Furthermore, the earthquake will most likely trigger the Palo Verde nuclear reactor's failsafe equipment....which will shut down Phoenix and Maricopa county's power for at least 4 days.
Sounds like fun stuff huh? Phx has just started running simulations and preparing, although they have predicted this for about 5 years now. Supposedly the next huge Californian earthquake will be in the next 2 years....
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gun and ammo sales went up because everyone though obama was going to reinstate the assault weapons ban and raise taxes for ammo (both of which he still may do
) 2050 is a long time away. hopefully we will have fixed some stuff by then.....hopefully
yeah, anything is possible, i just find it unlikely that all of those things will happen at once. a major terrorist attack is almost certain, its just a matter of when. whether or not the american people can handle it is another question...i think we can. americans are some of the most resiliant people in the world.
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and go to the southeast b/c if you think it's overboard you should check what a lot of "my people" have going on...they aren't prepared for a fallout but they are prepared for "civil war 2" which my buddies grandfather has been talking about since i can remember
yeah...thats the south, where they still havent gotten over the fact they lost "civil war 1" lol(please dont take that as offensive, I am a proud member of Sons of Confederate Veterans)
i do think it is a little paranoid on a wide scale unless there is mass famine or some such, which i dont think is possible in the US at the moment (we would buy all the food and let other countries starve if it came down to it). on smaller scale, natural disasters and such are a breeding ground for criminal elements and all sorts of nasty things. new orleans is a good case study, where society basically fell apart after a few days of no food, water, and of course no aid from FEMA.
theoretically society can only last without food as a cohesive body for roughly three meals. after that people revert back to thier primal instincts or some such.
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A bit paranoid me thinks but...
yeah, fuel would be a huge concern. if sh*t really did "hit the fan", panic consumption of fuel would increase, production and transportation of fuel would decrease.
The safest thing to do would be to build a bomb-shelter/bunker underneath your house with proper ventilation, storage, supplies etc.
That would be easy enough to stock for one to two adults, but if a family is utilizing this there has to be even more preparation. Babies need certain fats that are not widely available in sources that they can eat properly, so therefore certain oils must be stored to accomodate for this.
For short term survival of say, a natural disaster, having 2 weeks or so of emergency supplies would be adequate.
For more extreme cases, like nuclear war, the sky is the limit on what you should have. At that point everything and everything becomes more valuable to survival.
One good thing is that if there were to be a nuclear war, radiation will supposedly dissapate in about 2 weeks. However, whether or not anything could survive the impending nuclear winter is another question.
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WELCOME!
I'm in Phoenix too! This is a great site for all your needs, and as pathfinders are based on the D21 truck frame I dont think we will discriminate too much against you.
There is tons of info on here about general maintenance and replacing worn out parts. As for the center console, I don't know what the D21's look like, but the pathfinders arent that great. They are pretty short and uncomfortable to rest your arm on. There are a few people who have switched one out from a jeep or a dodge or something, and a member who is working on converting a mini-fridge into the armrest!
The search function can be a bit retarded, but the plus side is that you get lots of random information whenever you look for something.
If you need help feel free to pm me.
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it did this from the moment I put the new engine in. the oil and water pumps were new.
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yeah i tightened them down a bit and there was no change.
and its only at startup i get the clacking for about 30-60 secs.
Ill try a heavier weight oil and see what that does.
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could lifter tick be timing issues too?
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the extra 2k makes up for the difference in price then.
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lol, lets get that goin on! haha.
Ill try running Mobil 1 10w-30 next time I change my oil and see if that helps.
Btw, is it true you can run synthetic oil for almost twice as long as dinosaur juice?
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do you think less viscosity at startup would help?
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5w-30
too light?
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well ill grab some Mobil 1 next time I go to checker....if its good eough for my crotch-rocket its good enough for the pathfinder.
hopefully changing to synthetic will shut up the lifters. its embarassing trying to hit on girls in the ASU parking lot and in the back ground is clack, clack, clack.....pause....clack, clack, clack.
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awesome. need to do mine soon