baddadjokess
Test Drive
- Location
- South Florida
Well, its been like 8 months since I've had my Xterra, so I figured I would post a build/progress thread about it. Its not much, she's been a fixer upper so I haven't gotten to the real fun stuff yet, but I'll be there soon.
Here she is when I got her. She had like 150k(if I remember well). And seemed solid. Everything was working properly so I decided this was the one I wanted out of the few I was looking at.
After about a month, a friend of mine helped me with changing the timing belt and water pump. I wasn't sure the the previous owner had done it and he would no longer answer my texts or calls so I went the safe route and changed it.
After that was out of the way, I build a lobo rack and loaded it with camping and emergency essentials. Also removed the mud flaps and side steps.
I went ahead and got rid of the mismatched street tired and slapped on some Dynapros in 265/75/16, got a bit of rubbing but i pulled moved the front bumper behind the bracket at the wheel wells and got rid of the rubbing.
I had slowed down on the X a bit because I was starting a new job. So on my first day of this new job, 45 minutes away from my house, the Xterra decided to lose power, I coasted to the shoulder of the highway and then it died. Being my first day I had my wife pick me up, drive me to work and then she had the truck towed to a shop. It was a the shop for 3 days before I decided to tow it home because they couldn't figure out what it was. A couple days after I got it home I started messing with it and I couldn't figure it out, so my buddy who helped me with the timing belt came over and pulled the valve cover and saw this. LOOK AT THAT. That poor VG had never seen a oil change before I got it. He tells me the motor lost oil pressure due to the sludge and it died.
Now, I went ahead and bought this. A JDM VG33(with 40-60k miles, or so they say) to swap into it and get it back on the road. I also have two light bars, PML shackles to throw on as well as a sway bar to remove and t-bars to crank.
Hopefully the swap will happen this weekend and I will be able to update and post more info (which I couldn't find much) on how to make a JDM VG work in the USDM Xterra. I'm going to try to lift it and install the lights too, but thats only time permitting. We'll see how it goes.
Thanks for looking!
Here she is when I got her. She had like 150k(if I remember well). And seemed solid. Everything was working properly so I decided this was the one I wanted out of the few I was looking at.
After about a month, a friend of mine helped me with changing the timing belt and water pump. I wasn't sure the the previous owner had done it and he would no longer answer my texts or calls so I went the safe route and changed it.
After that was out of the way, I build a lobo rack and loaded it with camping and emergency essentials. Also removed the mud flaps and side steps.
I went ahead and got rid of the mismatched street tired and slapped on some Dynapros in 265/75/16, got a bit of rubbing but i pulled moved the front bumper behind the bracket at the wheel wells and got rid of the rubbing.
I had slowed down on the X a bit because I was starting a new job. So on my first day of this new job, 45 minutes away from my house, the Xterra decided to lose power, I coasted to the shoulder of the highway and then it died. Being my first day I had my wife pick me up, drive me to work and then she had the truck towed to a shop. It was a the shop for 3 days before I decided to tow it home because they couldn't figure out what it was. A couple days after I got it home I started messing with it and I couldn't figure it out, so my buddy who helped me with the timing belt came over and pulled the valve cover and saw this. LOOK AT THAT. That poor VG had never seen a oil change before I got it. He tells me the motor lost oil pressure due to the sludge and it died.
Now, I went ahead and bought this. A JDM VG33(with 40-60k miles, or so they say) to swap into it and get it back on the road. I also have two light bars, PML shackles to throw on as well as a sway bar to remove and t-bars to crank.
Hopefully the swap will happen this weekend and I will be able to update and post more info (which I couldn't find much) on how to make a JDM VG work in the USDM Xterra. I'm going to try to lift it and install the lights too, but thats only time permitting. We'll see how it goes.
Thanks for looking!
