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The stud part numbers they used are NI14065-V5003 6 on the passenger side 2 on the driver side The right side manifold part number is NI14004-12GO2 This girl saved every piece of documentation from day one it's almost unbelievable. I really appreciate all the help you are giving me. That's always the great thing about the Nissan forums. THANK YOU

I went to maaco today to retrieve the 95 XE and they really did a fantastic job straightening all the door dings and repainting both sides. Especially considering the price and how hard it is to paint black. Looking it over I found a rust spot in the driver back door jam at the base of the wheelwell. I didn’t pick it up, instead I negotiated a price to patch it and repaint the rocker panel. I also did a closer inspection on the frame and there is some flaking surface rust on the drivers frame rail. I hate it that I missed this when I was checking it out before I bought it. It’s not nearly as bad as some I looked at that were so bad I could almost poke my finger through the frame, but it is unsettling. Then I did something I should have done before I bought it and ran a carfax on it. Turns out it spent it’s first 5 years in Buffalo New York so I’m sure this didn’t help the situation. I live in Tennessee so I’m not used to having to deal with a lot of rust issues. It all breaks my heart. The 95 is the one with the absolute mint condition interior. From the drivers footwell carpet, to the door panels, the drivers seat bolster, everywhere you look this Path is absolutely perfect inside. It just makes you feel good setting in the drivers seat and looking around. Kinda like being in a time machine that you dialed back to 1995. I don’t even know how somebody could do it. In 5 years of ownership on the Z I haven’t been able to keep my interior that perfect and my car leads a pampered life in the garage, well cosmetically anyway. I do drive it like a Z and have the drivers license points to prove it lol. So I’ll keep the 93 SE with it’s thick folder of service records, and it's boatload of options that all still work, and sell the 95 but I really wanted to keep them both.

The studs and right manifold were changed in March of 1996 during the regular 45,000 mile service. "Customer states noisy exhaust" Paid for by Nissan under what appears to be an extension of the factory warranty to 50,000 miles for that specific problem.

I received a huge folder from the orginal owner of my 1993 SE V6 when I purchased the vehicle Saturday. I finally had time to set down and review all the contents today. Among the stack of Nissan dealer service receiptsgoing all the way back to new were a couple showing extended warrenty replacement of several broken studs and the right exhaust manifold around 45,000 miles, duh go figure. Now my question is this my truck has 176,000 miles now so do you think that intial repair fixed the problem for good? Is there a chance that the same thing can happen again. Everything seems to be quiet at this time. There was also a receipt with a one year warrenty for an $1800.00 tranny rebuild at 173,000 miles but the seller told me this. I was wondering if the right exhaust manifold has to come off for an automatic tranny rebuild? Should I recheck the bolts if the transmission shop did remove it? It was rebuilt by a national chain so I'm not sure if they would know to use caution when dealing with the exhaust studs. Any advice the group would like to share would be appreciated.

It's okay to use Kelly but use the dealer trade in price, that's what vehicles are really worth. Ignore all the retail and private party values.

I'm so glad you didn't say don't tach it up to the redline. Anything I drive has to get redlined in at least 2 or 3 gears once a day. The 2 I bought were the only ones I looked at that would run straight up to the redline without a clitch when you stomped them. All the rest would buck, stumple, shift early, bog or basically just couldn't rev past about 5000 rpm.

It's a long story but I ended up buying a 93 loaded SE yesterday. I think it has every option you could get that year. If you read my newbie post you know I just bought my first Pathfinder Friday and joined this forum. I see that many people in here own more than one Pathfinder. I'm loving it and plan to keep both. Anyway if anbody wants to look here is the 93 and my Z. I'll add a pic of the 95 as soon as I pick it up from Maaco. Read my newbie post for the reason it's at Maaco. I do have 2 dumb newbie questions though: 1. What term do I use if I wanted to say something like "Take a look at my (insert proper term here suv, truck, off road vehicle, cute-ute lol)" I know it sounds dumb but all I ever had to say is "Take a look at my car." 2. I don't think either Pathfinder has any manifold bolt issues so whats the best advice to minimize the chances of it happening in the future?

LOL I realize now how that sounded, and don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of character on any 13 yo anything. I guess my point is I want my character dents to be because I tried to carve that ditch in a foot of snow while everybody else was gridlocked on the hill. That is why I bought a body on frame Pathfinder in the first place. Not because it looked like it spent 13 years in Macy's parking lot at the mall sandwiched between an Escalade with chrome brush guards and a Lexus rx300. Anyway thanks for the warm welcome. I'll post pictures of my new scrapes too.

After a pretty exhaustive search within a reasonable driving distance I finally found a good Black 95 Path 4x4. I guess you guys already know this, there are a lot of junk ones out there. Anyway mine is a black XE 122,000 one owner miles that belonged to a girl and was never even smoked in. It's gonna be my winter driver to give my black 03 350z, bought new, a break while I patiently wait til June for the 370z to go on sale. Anyway I should have bought a Pathfinder a long time ago for a second vehicle but somehow just never had the time money etc work out all at the same time. So I'm a Nissan lover from way back, 8 total, and not a stranger to forums and newsgroups but they have all been Z and some Maxima related. Point is I'll try not to ask dumb questions, just read and keep my mouth shut. I'll add a pic of my Pathfinder as soon as it gets back from maaco. As nice as everything else was about this Pathfinder the previous owner was a flight attendant and it spent most of it's life in long term parking at the airport. It had more door dings than just about any vehicle I've ever seen and they were magnified 10x by the black paint. I couldn't live with that so I drove it straight to maaco, never even brought it home, to get both sides straightened and painted. Thanks for listening to my newbe rant - Nissan Rocks