Kingman

That would be sweet. There's one particular WD21 that I want to track down and get on the forum. His Pathfinder is totally bad ass...

300 miles.

There's a full detailed write up somewhere on here

I'm betting on a bad lifter.

Though I will say, when I had my front end hanging over an embankment last month, a rear mounted winch would have been really freakin' nice. In that case a front winch wouldn't do the slightest bit of good. A winch is only as good as what it can be attached to.

So what if you're ass down in mud? It goes both ways. You can bury the front of your truck and render the winch unusable, or you can bury the back and render the winch unusable.

Man take a crap load of pics and send them to the place you got that motor from. Something was poorly machined/fitted that's for sure. I hope you get something back.

Very good. Don't run it anymore though.

That's nuts! I think somehow the seal didn't mate/set properly between the gasket and the block and head... If the "X" I'm seeing is where you posted a pic, I can't see it till I get home in an hour or so. Still at school That also explains the no coolant in oil, it's all going outwards not inwards!

Oh yeah, definitely headgasket. Lol. Didn't realize it was to that extent. Holy crap man.

If you drained your oil and there's no coolant in it, then it's probably not even the head gasket. The bypass hose is a little 90 degree hose right above the thermostat housing, and it can rupture or crack or leak. It's also a bitch to get to and replace. I thought I had a leaking head gasket as well, my coolant was constantly dissapearing, and I couldn't find out where. Until one day it dripped one drop of water on the ground and I could trace the water path right to the little bastard. It can also give the impression the water pump seal has failed, because of where the water path. I was loosing coolant for months before it finally started leaking bad enough to leak onto the ground. I would also overheat pretty frequently and had to fill up with coolant almost every day before heading home from school.

Maybe you have a sneaky leak. The bypass hose above the thermostat is good at pissing coolant and the heat evaporates it before you see very much of it. I had that problem as well.

Yes, yes. The little red eyed gremlin. He causes all kinds of problems...

^^^ That's the exact reason Ron's Automotive & Collision on 78th street is showing dwindling business. But I'll bet they're too ignorant and self centered they have no idea why.

I've seen them in all kinds of colors. Red, dark red, blue, dark blue, light blue, green, dark green, light green, white, purple, yellow , grey, black...

Doesn't mean they properly attached the weight. I've had mine balanced and then an hour later the weight came off on the freeway and it scared the living hell out of me.

The SE seats on the WD21s are worlds better than the XE seats

If it's the motor and it won't go up, it's probably gummed up from grease and dirt. Bang on it a few times while holding down the up botton and it might break loose and you can slowly work it up.

There was some review I read a good while back when these things were new that said the sport package was only available on an SE model Pathfinders. Wonder where they got that from?

I hope they'll give you manufacturing error for that one, but they probably won't since they have no way of knowing if you took the heads off or what after you bought it.

Um. If they poorly sealed the head gasket and it's prone to causing serious internal damage, uh, they should be replacing the entire thing at their expense. Warranty should be for failed parts they installed, not a f****d up half assed job. That should be at their expense. Or maybe I misunderstood you. Did you buy the engine from them as a whole and put it in? Or did you have them rebuild your specific engine?

Temperature difference between the block and heads, overheating, the material its self gets weak, poor adhesion, stress. There's more.

I doubt there's anything wrong with the block. And might as well do both sides, but I think head gaskets are a really rare problem for our trucks.

That looks alot like the truck my buddy's dad just bought. Only he has real rubber and wheels on it...and it's actually muddy.

And I keep getting you two mixed up! Nytrosfinder and Nismothunder. Damnit...