nissan procession

[Corneilius]

I figured I'd post my trucks, My first Nissan 91 2wd, regular cab, 4cyl 5 speed.

Got it bone stock, left it for a while, then got the bug.
Cranked t-bars and extended shackles and the biggest 14" tire i could get (225/75)

Momentum was my friend (2wd fail)

Eventually got a 4wd Bronco II, hated it, nothing but problems.
Sold it and got this off craigslist

^^^the day I got it, bone stock, bald 27"BFG's
5th gear didnt work, and the trans exploded a mile from my house, still a great deal for what I gave for it. Bought a trans, tossed it in along with a set of 31"mud tires and went to URE

Didn't even have time to paint the wheels black.

 

[Corneilius]

I had been welding for a few years, so I built front+rear bumpers and a roof rack.

Custom cut and installed a body lift

Wheeled and DDed her for a while, awesome truck with only 245,000 miles on her.

Then this happened.

We drug her back onto her wheels, added a quart of oil, bumpstarted it, and drove it 3hours home @75mph (goggles on). She sat for a few months, then I pony'd up and bought a new body.

255k miles, blown motor, clean frame, minor body rust.
I swapped over my motor, lift, 32"tires, bumpers and partial interior.

Thats pretty much how she sits now, ran some bad gas through her and clogged the injectors(hopefully)

 

[Corneilius]

While I was rebuild the 4wd's I was dd'ing my white truck. I lowered it some to improve ride quality, and swapped in more comfortable seats. Took it on several camping trips, and its made the drive from Asheville(current location) to Raleigh (parents house). Speedo broke at 245k, only has 2 guages now, fuel and coolant temp. but she runs awesome and never quits.

Also picked up this for a steal!
I fully rebuilt and painted it, just gotta get a 220v extension cord so i can run my Lincoln outside my apartment.

Future plans: Ive got a few dana44's laying around, along with a Nissan tcase(divorced) for a possible doubler. Im also designing a longtravel IFS setup(crunching lots of numbers)

 

[houdini]

cool to see another nissan on the board! you obviously do have the "bug". i have always liked that model pathy. when's the d44 going under it?

you could look on http://www.noas4x4club.com/forum/ for some local nissan enthusiast and tech.

good luck with the build!

 

[Corneilius]

I have a chevy 44, an EB44 and a psd Waggy44 in inventory right now, ill probably end up SAS the white 2wd (divorced 720 tcase) and fabricating new uppper and lower A-arms for the pathfinder. If I use 240sx rear cv axles I can go 3" over on each side :Rockon:

edit:240sx rear cv axles up front

 

[OnlyOneDR]

Glad to see you are getting good use out of that Pathy. When I had it I really wanted to do something with it but had too many things going on. I see you are going back to the old grille, I really like that one.

 

[Corneilius]

I was trying to remember your username. Thanks, I like the grill too, still gotta cut the front fenders and weld a patch panel under those rear seats. Ive got a welded H233B third I could toss in there too, but thats how I flipped the first one(understeer).

Got a build on your frontier? That thing was sweeet

 

[OnlyOneDR]

Got a build on your frontier? That thing was sweeet

There will be a build thread soon. Stay tuned.

 

[DerrickS]

Yeah! Nissan powa! Nice thread and good luck with the build.

 

[Back2Hilux]

Nice seeing the fellow nissan freaks on here. I bought my Frontier new back when I was 19 and dumb . I traded in my 88 Toy on it and never looked back. Always planned to lift and SAS it but never could bring myself to cut her up. It is pretty well a DD/ garage queen now along with my 240. Here is pics of both of them a couple years back. Was working on both of them at the time.

Couldnt kick the off road bug so i bought this to beat do death instead. It looks different now but you get the idea

 

[GCncsuHD]

Yeah! Nissan powa!

Oxymoron much? I kid, I kid, my wife drives a Nissan Pathy

 

[baggednissan]

so your saying the 720 transfercase is divorced ? good to know i guess it psd ?since your talking about using a chevy 44 but your pics is of a ford 44 dsd? i'm confused

 

[GCncsuHD]

so your saying the 720 transfercase is divorced ? good to know i guess it psd ?since your talking about using a chevy 44 but your pics is of a ford 44 dsd? i'm confused

Neither PSD or DSD, IIRC the original divorced OEM transfer case was vertically mounted in the datsuns, input on top, outputs centered below. Will probably require a CV shaft to balance the front shaft.

 

[1stgenxxx]

Those pathfinders are tough. I had one with 265K....rolled it in the richlands and then drove it 5 hours to Wilmington the same week.

 

[DerrickS]

Oxymoron much? I kid, I kid, my wife drives a Nissan Pathy

Hehe.. OK Ok the 4 cylinder is really a dog in anything other than a small car. I wish the D21 was rocking a v-6, but most of the time it works ok

 

[GCncsuHD]

Hehe.. OK Ok the 4 cylinder is really a dog in anything other than a small car. I wish the D21 was rocking a v-6, but most of the time it works ok

My wife's R50 with the 3.3 V-6 surprises me it will scoot down the road pretty good, oddly enough it feels way quicker than the supercharged Xterra my brother had.

 

[Back2Hilux]

The pathy's definitely seemed faster than the fronty or xterras. Mine felt really sluggish from the factory until I started adding some things. Must be in the ecu tuning.

 

[GCncsuHD]

The pathy's definitely seemed faster than the fronty or xterras. Mine felt really sluggish from the factory until I started adding some things. Must be in the ecu tuning.

What in the world is there to do to these things? I put a magnaflow muffler in when the stocker rusted out, thing screams like a 350z now and threw in a k&n filter just because the stocker was clogged. I thought about finding someone to do a little ecu tuning on it, but right now I'm trying to track down a random misfire, not sure what it is. It comes and goes, replaced all the ign stuff, moisture's not an issue. It will run like a scalded dog at WOT, and idle fine, but mid throttle will miss sometimes when accelerating, so I doubt it's a fuel press problem.

Oh well, it's doing good right now, didn't do it the last 2 times I drove it, but it's been doing it off and on for about a year now. Got some 245/75r16 BFG ATs to throw on when I have it down to do brakes next

 

[Corneilius]

The 720 case is center drop, gear driven, 2:1 low range. I will clock it with a custom crossmember to reduce driveshaft angles.

As far as power goes; my pathfinders both have the tbi v6 and it was waaay more torque then my 4cyl truck. The 4cly is easier to work on and is more rev-happy though. The previous owner of my Pathfinder installed a manifold back system with magnaflow cat and flowmaster, the exhaust on my white truck rusted off in front of the muffler otherwise stock drivetrain

Back2Hilux, specs on the 240? I dropped an RB20 in my buddys and welded the diff, that thing is FUN.

 

[GCncsuHD]

The 720 case is center drop, gear driven, 2:1 low range. I will clock it with a custom crossmember to reduce driveshaft angles.

Gonna split the difference half way and run CV's front and rear?

I would keep it inline with the rear, and run just a CV upfront. Should have plenty of driveline length to keep a decent angle.

 

[Corneilius]

Warning: Tech ahead.
When I finally got a Lincoln 220v welder I wanted to "lincoln" lock the rear for an upcoming URE trip. While at the junkyard one day I spent a few hours pulling a spare 3rd member chunk and scored it for $30.
When I got home I realized that sometime around 1990 Nissan added 2 more studs to the rear axle housing. My early pathfinder had 9 bolt holes, but my new gear chunk had 11. I had no idea if they would line up but we tried anyway.

H233b Carrier, tacked it through the windows, pulled it apart and burned it hot

Empty Housing
The 11 Bolt third member and 9 bolt housing DO work together. The 9 holes in the housing line up, and the extra 2 probably can be drilled and tapped.
Nissan must have noticed something that caused them to add the other 2 bolts, but I havnt had any problems with my 9 bolt housing.

720 T-case

Chevy44

Edit: lol at those spring plates, mock up with YJ's

 

[Corneilius]

Gonna split the difference half way and run CV's front and rear?
I would keep it inline with the rear, and run just a CV upfront. Should have plenty of driveline length to keep a decent angle.

I dont think i'll have too many problems with ujoints because of the length, like you said. It'll be pushed to one side for ground clearance.

I think I read somewhere that the U joint doesn't "see" the sideways angle. But the angles do compound, so you don't want to exceed the max operating angle. But I might be totally wrong.

 

[GCncsuHD]

I think I read somewhere that the U joint doesn't "see" the sideways angle. But the angles do compound, so you don't want to exceed the max operating angle. But I might be totally wrong.

The U-joint does "see" the sideways angle...BUT since both the t-case and pinion are parallel in the vertical plane they will cancel each other out. But like you said they will compound with the angles in the horizontal plane, and you don't want to exceed that.

Now that I think about it a CV shaft would suck in that application since the pinion wouldn't be pointing at the t-case. Forget I ever mentioned it Just try to keep it long and low to reduce the angles.

 

[Corneilius]

Deal. Any knowledge on the 720 t-case flange pattern?
The input flange is the same as my spare Pathy driveshaft, but the outputs are small. I would like to pull both output flanges and swap them for the larger style but I dont know the spline count/diameter. I have 2 spare tx-10 tcase's that I can steal the flanges off of.

I heard, fwiw, that the small 720 flange pattern will bolt up to a Subaru driveshaft (but who has one of those?)

 

[Back2Hilux]

The 720 case is center drop, gear driven, 2:1 low range. I will clock it with a custom crossmember to reduce driveshaft angles.
As far as power goes; my pathfinders both have the tbi v6 and it was waaay more torque then my 4cyl truck. The 4cly is easier to work on and is more rev-happy though. The previous owner of my Pathfinder installed a manifold back system with magnaflow cat and flowmaster, the exhaust on my white truck rusted off in front of the muffler otherwise stock drivetrain
Back2Hilux, specs on the 240? I dropped an RB20 in my buddys and welded the diff, that thing is FUN.

Yea I have the same 3.3l in my fronty but it still never felt as quick as the pathy.

As for the 240, I blew the engine as I was saving up to build a turbo ka. So to get it back on the road just built my spare block with SOHC pistons bored .20" over. Its almost 12:1 cr now. head p&p, 248 cams, header, etc. Fun car but not like an RB is. It has a long way to go but im waiting to build a turbo ka to around 400ish hp