DSM_guy

drove a wrangler. slow as piss and it felt/sounded like driving a tin can on wheels

if you want a cheap light bar and you already have the OEM cargo rack you can use one of the large bars...thats what i did. take a drill, make the holes, bolt on the lights. as far as wiring you need to link them all together, run the power wire to a relay, ground the grounding wires (duh), install a trigger wire with switch, finish hooking up the relay. not hard at all. took me an afternoon to do everything. as for my lights...baja walmart specials. their plenty bright and i wont cry if someone steals them (lets face it, all they gotta do is unscrew a couple knobs and clip the wire) or they get knocked off. personally they light up the entire way like its daylight out...for 40 bux for all 4...plus im not rollin in the dough enough to be spending hundreds of dollars on designer brand lights. EDIT: im feeling nice..here is how/where i mounted my lights..and here is also a wiring schematic as you can see the blue trigger wire runs from an ignition source (key position 'on') to a switch (to turn on the lights) then runs to the relay which has the ground, power (from batt), and power lead (red to lights) also connected to it. i think the rest is pretty self explanatory.

from what ive heard ideal mounting is directly in line or slightly above your shoulders...although slightly downward (no more than 45*) is also acceptable. like someone mentioned above...your shoulder is the highest mounting point. if you have your harness lashed right behind the seat to the floor, your shoulder is the highest point in the arc created by the belt line. if you do end up hitting something and abrubly stopping the pressure of you moving foward is going to be put directly on your shouldrs. it would be like someone jumping on your back all of the sudden...hence compressing the spine. and trust me..if your wearing a harness correctly..you should not be moving at all..and your body is already under some tension..but you throw alot more on it...suddenly, youll screw your back up royally.

any stock 3 point seatbelt will keep you safe in a wreck. the deal with the harnesses is that when something happens, you dont have to wait for the belt locks to engage. you also do very little moving around in a harness versus an OEM system. there isnt the sliding all around and trying to keep yourself in the seat. the harness holds you down and holds you down good. as far as mounting. you should never mount your straps at more than a 45* angle. any more than that and you can get spinal compression if you get in a wreck. if you didnt wanna install a bar in your cab you could utilize the top anchor point on the rear passenger belts. i have that done in my eclipse.

i use the valvoline high mileage stuff works pretty well, and has slowed my oil leaks.

thanks for the tip! where is my heat exchanger?

thanks guys. i tried the baited spring trap with gum, peanut butter, and cheese...no dice. i DONT wanna use the poision...for reasons stated above. locking a cat in the car...aint happnin heh. im in texas and its july. that thing will be dead in 15 minutes...even in the shade. so i guess glue traps it is. thanks again!

my pathy isnt my daily driver..it only sees action when i need it to (snow season or when the eclipse breaks down) so it sits alot. well, about a year ago i noticed rat pellets in my floor and seats on occasion. it kinda trailed off for a while. i put traps all over the car and never caught anything. well i got in it the other day, and was driving through a field. well the trim peice around my center vents is gone...so you can see down into the inner dash. well all the sudden i see a mouse poke his head up, look at me, and disappear back down into my dash! yup hes definately back. that was about a month ago. now my car smells like rat pee..i think. either that or he died. anywho. anyone know any way to get rid of this little bugger? i tried the baited rat traps, too smart for those. i do NOT need him in there chewing up all my wires. any suggestions would be great.

seems thats a popular trick in ex-soviet countries. my dad is a missionary in ukraine. one time he got pickpocketed. they called him a few hours later and wanted all this money for it. he had like $2, an american express he had cancelled a few hours before, and on old drivers licence only for ID purposes. neeedless to say....he declined their offer and told them to keep it. dont ya konw they were bummed.

no, the reason the whole t-shirt thing failed is because after begging and pleading for the origional picture depicted in the design, nobody made an attempt to get it to me. therefore, no hi res image...no t shirt. i could only do so much. it was not an unsurmountable project, and it WAS gonna be simple. if id have gotten the image i asked for the design was already done. all i had to do was slap in the hi res image and email it to whatever t-shirt designer anywhere in the world. i coulda had it done in 5 minutes and we would have already been enjoying our shirts. nobody can say i didnt try my hardest to get this rolling. but a thank you to those who DID put forth the effort to help me out, sorry we couldent get this done.

ok guys, well nothing is gonna get done untill i get that image. i cant do anything else, and with no design we have no shirts...its up to yall.

oh yeah, no doubt, its got 240,600 miles on her. been through the family, then me and my little bro (esp him) put it through hell. i wasnt too bad, just did some wheelin. but reading yalls stuff i though of a couple more things! rear hatch struts are shot (didnt think of it cuz im just used to using the peice of PVC i keep in the back!) drivers side armrest is cracked horribly. oh, and up near the collectors i have a gasket that is gone...so exhaust leak there and...i have a leak in my PS pump...oh well lol but the thing is that all sounds bad...but to tell you the truth..they are pretty minor! i think its pretty funny really, but its still pretty reliable.

well, i figured it would be fun for everyone to share whats wrong/dosent work on their pathfinders just for fun..so here goes. vac leak somewhere in engine, causing annoying whistle and high idle of course, i am another victim of the exhaust manifold warpage front windshield washer fluid motor went out, so im currently using the pump designed for the REAR nozzle to spray my windshield. oil leak from head engine is....getting up there in miles and noticible loss in compression vents up near windshield are about to fly off im afraid door must be unlocked from passenger side because cheap plastic connecting the tumbler to the rod that activates the door locks broke. when i did have the ability to unlock from the drivers side, only the drivers and rear drivers doors would unlock...both pass sides wont. when i lock the doors, all of them lock with the master except the rear passenger drivers rear window no worky vent surrounds in the center dash and passenger side have been ripped out by my brother. ill fitting CD player sticks out of well about 1" or so. our radio pocket is SMALL! gas gauge is weird. after i fill up, 20 miles down the road its at half lol. but i guess its better than none at all like it was when i got it. fixed that. broken fan blade on blower motor or something. when i turn the air to "3" the entire dash shakes...its quite interesting. i have a leak somewhere in the rear of the cargo area...causing water to come inside and soak my carpet on occasion. dash is cracking annoying creak when i turn hard over hills pretty sure AC compressor is flipping me the bird rear wiper/washer no longer works open hatch button no longer works on dash rear defroster...no work cruise control...has trouble keeping proper speed um, i think thats it for now. im sure that i am leaving some things out, but share what makes your pathy unique! lol

no, what i need is the origional UN ALTERED picture that was taken from the vid cam. most digi cams still capture stuff in 72 DPI, but the images are captured around 11x24" size, so upping the res and droping the size is no problem. the problem i have here is an image thats 4x5" and 72ppi. it cant be sucessfully upsized. i need the large shot so i can downsize slightly and up the res. hope that all made sense. basically, i need the origional file from mr. jim

yeah man, i got the email. but i need the origional pic. see...when you put things on the web, the resolution is brought down to 72ppi/dpi so that it dosent take forever and a day to open up. regular prints and hi res images are in the neighborhood of 300 ppi/dpi. i need one that is hi res. the one in the link you sent me is lo res 72. im afriad if we try and use that size it MAY come out pixelated

so whats the final price? i saw at fee of $7 and some change from the screeners. does that include the cost of the shirt or no? if so, i figure 15 shipped woud be a good price to go at. regardless, put me down for one white and one black. but remember guys. i need HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES of the jumping pathy on the back to get the files done. also i need to know what file TYPE i need to convert this into...cuz the sooner the better. im graduating in a week exactly, and i have a host of programs and fast computers to work with if i can just get the info and hi res files. whoever has the origional pic of the leaping pathy i need it sent to me ASAP. also, the hi res image for the front i will need in a JPEG format. the one posted right now is some kinda weird file that i cant open in an editing software. please send to bigbean@email.com BTW great to hear somebody got on this. i was almost wondering if we were gonna get these done or not. good going guys!

here is a quick idea of what the logo with more detail might look like.

heh, its a great thought and all, but i dont think you have one idea about what your getting yourself into. the whole idea of a club T is to have a single basic design with minor variations that is easily identifiable. its about being uniform..thats why we have a club. furthermore, who are you gonna get to design all these? not everyone is a designer ya know? dont expect me or anyone else to design shirts for everyone. its not economical, sure isnt cost effective, and its not reasonable. you cant order 50 shirts with 50 different designs and layouts. youll be paying out the butt for prices...and im sure the screeners will laugh in your face. nobody in their right mind is gonna set up 50 different designs for 50 different peope. if you want your own shirt with your own design with your own Pathfinder go make your own shirt. as for the rest of us, i think we will stick with what we have ALL contributed to here. now if we can get a definate word on who is willing to get this stuff screened.

ahahaaaaaa mark that was AWESOME! i could not stop laughing..i nearly pissed myself i was laughing so hard ( the taser one) and you cant help to start even before he zapps himself, cuz you know he is gonna get nailed! that is truly a classic

heh yep, goes into that sensor thats right next to your oil filter on the block. i pulled the wire loose when i replaced my starter. all ya need to do is pull out the female spade that used to be on your wire (if you striped that off) and crimp on a new one. i just got done fixing mine a few min ago actually. but dont worry...if you dont have stuff to fix it right off..dont freak. i drove 600 miles with the wire disconnected. i think it just goes to the oil idiot light

grey t shirt...with light and dark designs

i dunno, id stay away from cafe press. seems like they are all for the masses and are for handling large quantities of production. i dont see that here. i figure just a regular screener will do us just fine ok, here are the new backs with the suggested mods. lmk

ok, in the case of fitting the seats from my mom's '98 in my '91 it just aint happnin. none of the holes line up, and the little raised hump in the floor that the front bolts go into arent even the same height. the seat appears to be much higher in the R50, and has a wider side-to-side, but a shorter front-to-back stance. unless you wanna go custom fabbing brackets or drilling new holes in your floor, you wont get it to work...and even if you do the aforementioned, it still gonna be a PITA

well, on sunday/monday ill have my monitor, so i can start work back on the design. i think i wanna go ahead and do the suggested by putting the web site in the gravel/sandy area...as as to clean up the design a bit. ill need to work a bit on the front logo and cut out the background. some things that need to get done before orders are taken are (1) we still dont have a screener to do so, (2) we need to find out what kinda program then need to input the data to the machine (most use in design), (3) we need to get a price set for the shirts as well as shipping, and lastly, we have to have someone running the whole business of taking money and mailing shirts. all this need to get done before we even think about taking orders. oh, and i see you guys like the more toned down pic of the pathy leaping like i have on the black shirt...do you think yall would like the same image on the white/lighter t's...or do yall still wanna go with the straight black and white high contrasty one?

im not sure. im going home this weekend tho, and i have a 91 pathy and my mom has a 98...so ill take some measurements. the key factor is not necessarily gonna be the seats...but the brackets. ill tell you what id REALLY want.. is to jack the seats out of my dads "x" and throw them in mine. unfortunately its his work vehicle...and black/blue dosent really go with a maroon interior haha.