DustyDevil

I cleared 260,000 miles today!! woohooo!!!!!! -bounce-

just so ya know, engine mounts have rubber in them for a reason...the engine actually moves as you are running it. If you weld them solid, you will create frame stress and other problems. I would only do that in an ememrgency...like that's the only way you can get it back home....i've chained an engine before to get it home.

when you can't find a bolt locally try Fastenal, or another large fastener manufacturing company...most of them will deal with resale if you can't find what you need. I have had to order other products from them directly.. working on motorcycles mostly, I tend to need a lot of odd sized bolts metric and standard. Also they carry a product called time sert....best spark plug hole thread repair I have ever found!

I could tell ya some big romantic story bout it...but I'll save ya...I had an engine fire from that very fuel line! I smelled gas that morning and that evening driving up a long hill here in southern oregon...POOF! also, ...even if you get the fire out yourself (with your handy dandy fire extinguisher) pull your battery cables off your battery before the firetrucks show up...they will cut right through them! I't's a mess to clean up and replace wiring, hoses, hood liner, etc etc etc....sooo please check that lil' hose esp. if you smell gas when starting your pathy! Thinkin' bout that makes me wanna go -alcohol- and

sigh, i went there...to no prevail. Started to put in my information and my firewall shut me down and wont let me go back. I'm from Alabama, lurked on here when I lived there, but relocated years ago to the Southern Oregon Cascades.. Sorry I can't add, but I can't get back on that site.

A dead or weak battery will make it not fire up. I had a cheap rotor fly apart on me inside a cap on another vehicle, the computer on that vehicle shut it down and wouldn't even crank the car...something to do with no spark I guess. I replaced the cap and rotor and everything was fine. The screw might not have been tight, and eventually loosened during running of the engine. I would try the new ones, that might be all you need (make sure you get any pieces that might have broke off the rotor inside).

that fuel line can cause a fire! please don't ask how I know this!

Heck I'd pay for it sight unseen just for a parts truck...more if it runs! I have a 94 se...over 250.000 miles on it...auto trans. Gave it regular service, oil. tranny fluid, gear oil, etc etc etc....really haven't had any problems with it other than the manifold studs and the ghost door locks (which I've narrowed down to the alarm system) I plan on getting another 200 thousand out of mine. I might have to do a lil engine work, but I'll wait 'til something goes wrong with it first! when you buy parts...alternators, brake pads, anything get a lifetime warranty when it's available...well worth it when you've owned a vehicle as long as I have mine. and the most important part of being a pathy owner...GET IT MUDDY!

I'm actually a pro seamstress...seriously.. Any upholstry shop should be able to make you one in a day...maybe attach it with snaps..that's my view on it...probably under 50 bux (depends on where ya go) with vinyl or a rip stop heavy nylon. I can picture in my head it being more like a tonnau cover. You can get vinyl or nylon in almost any color to match your Pathy too. I am going to make one for mine this fall sometime, I will post pics when I get it done. I thought of this, because there is no hardware to hide, or take out if you don't want it in there, just roll it up and store it. snaps stay out of the way and take up any of your cargo space.

I did it...with the 2 3/8" four prong socket found at autozone..just like you described, ground two off and the others i rounded off, worked beautifully! Thank you so much!!! Lifesavers for unccpathfinder!

I need a new welder for xmas...i coulda made that with a welder! have tons of old sockets laying around...the pins broke off when i did the initial torque setting to seat the bearing...think i made the steel too hot with the grinding belt and weakened that hardened tool steel...so tomorrow, i'll get the closest i can and grind the other pins off...it's moments like these that make me wish i had been a girl who never got her nails greasy! hahaha! (nah that couldn't happen to me!)

Thanks for the tip on the tool, had i known that i would have bought it...but it looked like it was way too big when i compared it to the nut...sigh...120 miles of tool searchin and who knows how many calls lol...yep that helps tons... I got the nut off with the punch and hammer....but you can't put it back on that way as you have to be pretty dang right on with the torques on wheels bearings... so maybe we should do a poll no making a tool section??? lol i'd be willin to add pics of tools i've made and tool's i've gotten by without having to buy new stuff just for my pathfinder.

Maybe someday we could have a specialty tool section...it would become very handy

okay, i've searched all over, and can't find it...anyone know the part number or the metric size for the 2 point hub nut socket, for the front wheels on a 93 pathfinder? i found the part number for 97...but the tool catalog doesn't say it fits the earlier models...big sigh I need to get my truck rolling again...help!!!

I'm in in the hills in Southern Oregon. Far away from most of you, lots of trails down here. I'll have to Post some of them when I have more time. There's a private property invite 4x4 course, it's rough, many vehicles trailered out. I'll find out more about that one too.

with over 200,000 miles, I've done mine several times, an hour to two is what it takes once you have a clue to what you are doing and all the right tools in your box. Get a manual and try it yourself, do it all in one day, that way you don't forget anything, and save LOTS of money.

one thing my mom taught me well, is that somethings a girl has to say, are better left unsaid....... so...... :X

You can buy a drain plug for the models without...any decent auto parts store should have one....but when you change the filter...lol time for the exhaist drop again! WOOHOOO! Or when you have new exhaust put on, have them bend that cross over, so that it comes to the front side of the pan...no more dropping it to work on that tranny

Yep.... Pathfinder transfer case 89-95 says 2.4 pints Pathfinder Tranny 1989 7.25 quarts ATF 1990 9.0 quarts ATF 1991 2wd 8.25 quarts ATF 4wd 9.0 quarts ATF 1992 9.0 quarts ATF 1993 2wd 8.25 quarts of ATF 4wd 9.0 quarts of ATF 1994 9.0 quarts ATF 1995 2wd 8.25 quarts ATF 4wd 9.0 quarts ATF -study-

Breakdown of the oil capacities of the pathfiners years through 95 (including filter) 1989 3.75 quarts 1990 3.75 quarts 1991 2wd 4.25 quarts 4wd 3.5 quarts 1992 3.75 quarts 1993 2wd 4.25 quarts 4wd 3.5 quarts 1994 3.75 quarts 1995 2wd 4.25 quarts 4wd 3.5 quarts don't ask me why such differences, it's just what my handy dandy Nissan fact sheet says -study-

1995 4wd is 3.5 including filter, 2wd is 4.25 including filter different years have different capacities, so don't everyone go by this

it's usually called a neutral safety switch, auto's have it , so that you have to be in park or neutral to start, standards you have to have the clutch in to start...it's a safety thing, fairly inexpensive, and usually easy to replace (although i haven't had to do this on my pathy yet, i have on many other vehicles) there is an adjustment to this swith on the pathfinders, it's in all the manuals, if you don't have one, post back, and i can write in the procedures.

I have a Bissel little green machine (carpet cleaner) it's tiny and easy to get in the vehicles with... I keep my tow rig, my caddy, my airstream and of course my Pathy interior spotless with this well untill me or the dogs jump in with muddy paws, faces, or tails...

Am laughing, wish this forum and info would have been around the first time i had to replace my timing belt, the second time was when I had to replace the water pump... decided that would save me headaches later on. I can suggest to any of you with higher mileage pathy's... do them both at once.. it was less than 10,000 miles between my timing belt and water pump going.

:bow: to MR Jim. Thanks for the forum, I decided to join up, instead of just lurking I have had a love relationship with a green machine Pathfinder since 93. With 200,000 plus miles, I can say it's been a great vehicle! A few minor problems are nothing that have stood in my way of driving this Pathfinder all over the country! Looking forward to taking part in the convo's...instead of just reading them and mumbling to my dogs about it later sssh