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Glad it wasn't the diff. Still love your pathy think its my favorite r50. On the jack stand thing Guess I am dangerous like you as I only use jack stands when the vehicle is going to be sitting there quite a while. I am like you and jack it up fix it drop it back down done. Although like right now I am using them on my pathfinder but there is nothing under the front like contol arm for it to land on it would drop far and land on the front hanger.

I have seen dana 30's snap axle shafts on 32" tires. I have seen the housings bend being pushed on a rock trying 2 get up. Everyone I wheel with that had a dana 30 has destroyed it in one way or another. Only exception is a few Cherokees that run with us but they have the 30's built with cromaly shafts, gussets, outer tube sleeves and so forth while running around 33" tires. Comparing a dana 30 to a toyota axle is not a good comparison as the design of the toyota axle makes it about 3 times stronger then the dana 30. I should say though we run our rigs extreme offroad situations and the IFS in the pathfinder had to be rebuilt after each trail run hence the reason the dana 44 is going in.

This is why you learn to fix your own stuff so you know what was done. Although some times that is not possible.

Browns camp in tillamook state forest is the largest legal offroad area in the state of oregon. I have spent many many of days up there and have run lots of the trails from easy enough a car can drive it to you getting winched up rock faces. There are trails for any level of experienced driver. There are over 100 miles of trails in TSF. Also If by some amazing feet you manage to do all the trails (I still have a few I have not done) you can go down the street a few miles and go to the trask OHV area that is a little smaller. The best thing about TSF is there is Such a variety of trails.

try lift information That will point you in the right direction to find 1. Also you can use a body lift for the same year rig with a manual, Your autos cable is plenty long enough several people have done it. I would upgrade the steering before i did a lift if I was going to do it again.

Have you pulled the thermostat and checked if it is stuck?

I know of 3 different versions of the M8000 winch. The old one is the best, The differences I know of is the gears differ not in size or in gear count but in the quality of the material used, and quality of wires and sobered vs crimped wire ends, The early ones have better quality selinoids like you see in there higher end winch's now. The newer ones have the cheep ones that don't seem to last long at all. On average Warn is a great company, but the M5000 and M8000 are now made elsewhere and bagged warn so they can compete with cheaper company's.

Are you thinking about a onboard tank or just a fitting to hook a hose 2? We use heat exchangers allot at my work on marine products. Remember a 3 pass style will warm or cool (depending on application) the water about 6 times as much as a single pass style. Also the more tubes in your exchanger the more efficient it will be. We use brass ones most of the time. We use them for the opposite we use the river water to cool the anti freeze. This is a interesting project you are working on I can't wait to see how it turns out.

That is funny you listed my childhood toys besides my bb gun. On GrimGreg's comment Try this I have the origonal battletech robot toy number 548 Still in its box witch most of is in japan's.

If you like the mech games try the armor core series on the PS3.

The 360 is for you teenage kids, the PS3 is for adualt gamers. But a Good gaming PC makes them both Junk just my

Just to let you know running a steering stabilizer kit and idler arm brace with my 33's. The stock centerlink lasted my 2 wheeling runs before it went to junk. I guess I should also note as anyone that has wheeled with me knows I do wheel my junk hard, I am completely willing to run trails way harder then my rig should run. Where i tosted my stock centerlink was on rocky uphill in TSF going the hard way (up the step side down the mild side). Soon as I manage to actually get my SAS done I will have allot of performance front end parts I take out counting a good centerlink.

Hi Dwilly, I go by BoneZ here I am located in Tualatin,OR so not far from you. I Run a 91 pathfinder. You can see my pathfinder at Rattle Trap. I have a 3" BL and A 3" SL and still had to trim my fenders to fit my 33's but they are over sized 33's. I would be glade to help but I haven't had the time to Work on my own pathfinder lately It is down tell I finish the SAS. I would very much suggest looking into a better centerlink like the one sold on grassroots.com. The stock centerlink will not hold up to the 33's.

Figured I would put up a few places here in oregon on the list. I am only going to add places I have wheeled at and I can find links for there are many more here in oregon. Trask sand lake south millican Oregon dunes noonday trail mcgrew trail browns camp Edit sorry about that didn't notice it was in north east states are when posted.

Rant ahead I agree Walmart's are evil I have been saying it since the 90's when one moved into a town near my home town. Now the downturn In are economy I think the major contributor to this is all the raises to minimum wadge, Do people not understand every time minimum wadge goes up it just makes money worth less, so every time it goes up everyone that makes more then minimum wadge is loosing money, It also makes it so company's can not compete with foreign manufactures on the same product. America was built on the working mans shoulders it was held up by the working man. We grew crops, built are own products and still had plenty to ship around the world. Now Media pushes being a paper pusher is the better way to make a living, I completely disagree. If you look at peoples lifes most of the people that work hard and make something go home after work with satisfaction that they were productive and made something that will be used for years to come. Someone that push's paper all day is just glad to get away from work with no satisfaction in what we do. The solution to our problems is less desk jobs more manufacturing jobs and a freeze on minimum wadge increases. Also we need to be able to use our natural resources, For instance since bill clinton signed a contract as our president it gave the japan's the rights to take more fish out of American waters then the American fishers are allowed to by 50 times over. That contract was for a 12 year period. Logging is another instance we can't cut old growth but can cut young trees we plant, what is up with that it should be the other way around you trees should have to be such a age or more to cut, it is also regulated to. These are the best instances I can give but it is probably because I grew up in a logging and fishing community that is now poverty land. people who live there are eather retired, on welfare or work at walmart because every other job was regulated by our government out of existence. If we had state over fedral laws I delive the united states would not be stuck in the downword spiral. States could allow for the proper things to be done for there inviroment not having someone on the other side of the country saying how it needs to work. /rant off thanks for reading if you did.

My suggestion is to start the nomination threads at the very start of the month so they fill up before the end of the month.

That link is not to a work party that is to a event the piston wilds have held the last few years raising money for the new trail system being made in the yacoma burns outside vancouver washionton. Although if you get on there wed page at pistons wild they have been having clean ups in the area of the trail system in development.

I will try to post up the next browns camp work party for you i usally hear about them, and its not that far for you.

This should be pinned.

My pathfinder is 8 x 1.25 like B said except 4, 1 hole but thats because of the previous owner drilling and tapping that 1 hole up to a 3/8" hole. I really dont know why it was done it makes it a pain to work on that side.

I normally don't agree with nismothunder but Iroks are great tires, I want a set for my pathfinder but to get them in 33's you have to go up to 17" rims. Maybe down the road when the pathy ends up high enough to run 36" tires ill go with Iroks.

I am from down in Oregon but thought I would let you know this weekend there Is a NPORA 4x4 run up in WA, quite a few people are attending here is a link to the post. mr. jim run

Same method I have been using on it.

I would suggest pulling the carpet and using a thick bed liner. easier to clean stuff doesn't slide around and If ou buy a quality on they have sound deadening.

OK here is the real way to do it with the 2 vehicles listed, You sale one and buy a WD-21 pathy and use the spare money to do a 3+3 lift tires sliders and bumpers and a lockright. OK on a real note out of the 2 you listed I would use the X because of having a frame. There is also allot more aftermarket support for the x.