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It could be, but it doesn't seem like it did it this bad before. That's why I say that at first I thought I was just paranoid and making a big deal out of nothing, but it seems worse than I remember it. I think I will try to replace the plugs and wires. With 137k miles, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to do that anyway. For those that have done this already, is it hard to get to all of the spark plugs? I've looked quickly at the engine to see where they all are and it looks like a couple of them won't be much fun to try to reach. Over on the 4x4parts board they are suggesting clutch problems, so I guess if plugs and wires don't do the trick, that will be the next thing to replace.

Lately I've noticed something kind of strange when accelerating under 2k rpms. I have a manual transmission, and mostly notice this in 2nd and 3rd gears. If the rpms are too low, its like the transmission is only intermittantly catching, which causes a series of jerks rather than a smooth acceleration. But by the time I get past 2k rpms, there is no problem at all. Also, I can start from a dead stop in 2nd gear without having the problem as long as I have the rpms up when I let the clutch out. I know I used to be able to get going in 2nd without doing this before. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Its kind of hard to describe in writing exactly what happens, so sorry if the description doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm hoping it isn't a transmission issue but instead something more simple (and less $$$) like maybe I should replace the plugs and wires or something. At first I thought I was just making this up because all of the other big fixes I have had to do to this Pathfinder were making me paranoid. But I know something isn't right now, so I have to do something soon. :help:

I put my steering stabilizer on at the same time as my 32's and body lift. Unfortunately I had it turned too far up or down and it hit against something else under there. That broke the cylinder open and let the oil out. I could tell something was wrong by the way smaller bumps in the road seemed to be affecting my steering a lot more than before. After putting a new stabilizer on, bumps in the road no longer take control of the steering. If your steering feels "twitchy" on bumpy roads, a stabilizer could help you, but if you're trying to fix the amount of "play" in your steering to make it more precise then a steering stabilizer won't fix your problem.

Maybe it was only $35. I bought a couple things that day, one of the parts was $15 and the other $35, so I could be wrong. Either way I wouldn't consider that to be too expensive to make me want to hunt for the correct bearing.

The whole pulley from Nissan is only $35. I checked various parts stores for the bearing when I needed a new one on my 94 and nobody sold the bearing. After finding the entire pulley at the dealership for $35 I decided that was a cheap enough fix for me. And I didn't have to deal with pulling bearings or reseating a new one.