The Nissan Path

Just purchased my second Pathfinder. Traded my 03 with 223k miles on her for an 08 SE 4.0. I scoured autotrader for about 3 months looking for the right deal but not much was showing up. Here's what I ended up with. She's got just over 97k. Haven't done much yet except for removing the terrible pinstripe and the 18" rims I found for $110 a piece shipped from eBay with Cooper Adventurer 265 65 18 from pep boys. What an aesthetic difference from the 17" 6 spokes! (They're for sale in CT by the way. PM me for details) Anyway, here's a pic I took over the weekend. Glad to be on the forum!

Nice rig!

Welcome to the club!

Any future plans for your ride?

Thanks! I've been lurking here for a while getting a feel for which direction I wanna go with her. I'd love to do a lift but I'm in and out of parking garages for work and I'm afraid I won't clear the entrance bumpers. Oh well. I'd like to give her some more performance through intake spacer and a bullydog as well as an airlift in the rear. Should be enough for the time being!

Also I forgot to mention to you to do the By-Pass before its too late if you haven't done it.

You do not want the coolant contaminating the tranny. My had contamination at 90K and needed a new tranny because of it.

Just search By Pass and you'll find what I am talking about.

Well I did the searching for you and found "the" thread about the bypass:


http://www.thenissanpath.com/viewtopic. ... ght=bypass

Some more info from a Frontier site:

http://www.clubfrontier.org/forums/f8/t ... now-57547/


I personally just swapped the hose on the passenger side of the radiator and where it goes to the tranny. So it just loops in the radiator. I'll try to get a photo.

Hard to explain without pointing it out to you but I just swapped these hoses so the tranny hose just loops back into the tranny. The radiator hose just stays looped in the radiator.

Good thing about doing this is you dont have to buy anything or cut anything.

just did the bypass. easier done than describing it. but I did not use any additional parts. no coupler, no hose clamp (reuse original), no zip tie.

you have 2 hoses -
hose A - from external transmission cooler to radiator (passenger side)
hose B - from radiator (driver side) to engine block.


take hose A off radiator (passenger side) and plug into engine block
take hose B off engine block and plug into radiator (passenger side), forming a loop within.

reuse all the old hose and clamp. length is perfect.

That info is from another member but explains it perfect with a photo.

Hmm I thought the effected radiators were only before 08. I'm gonna have to look into this over the weekend. Did you have a lot of radiator fluid spill out of the hoses? Is it worth it to flush beforehand? Thanks a bunch for the info!

Welcome!

Well it may have be fixed in 2008 but imo better safe then sorry.
I wouldn't bother doing a flush before.
You really dont look any tranny fluid. I hardly had top ad any. Maybe half a quart.
Well tranny fluid will come out of the hoses. If coolant comes out then you have a problem. That'll mean you have a failed radiator and everything is contaminated.
If your really fast and can cover the hoses from leaking then you shouldn't have to top of very little.