My 99 Pathfinder

Janseman

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Up until 2.5 years ago we were a one car family, I had finally convinced my wife to get a second vehicle. I looked around for quite a while hoping to get a 3rd gen Toyota 4Runner but couldn't find any in my price range. Then out of the blue my friend at a dealership let me know that he had a customer that just traded in a 99 Pathfinder with 117k Kms on the odometer. After a quick test drive I returned with a cheque and I had my first new to me 4x4. Since I didn't have any maintenance records or know of it's previous history apart from what came up in the car proof I had some preventative maintenance done, I had an alignment done, and changed all of the drive belts along with the timing belt. Soon after I got a new set of nokian vatiiva tires (265/70/15) installed. Apart from replacing the stock CD/Tape player this is how it looked for about 2 years.
 

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Janseman

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Then I decided that I wanted to replace the stock shocks and struts, that's when I stumbled onto this website, I wanted to hopefully transform this into a light exploration vehicle that I could use to go camping and hopefully someday do a bit of light offroading. I decided on an OME suspension kit. However I ended up getting the LD front springs, which didn't bother me too much until I saw other lifted pathfinders and their lack of rake (Re: Lecoq's rig)
 

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Janseman

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Even though the Nokian tires were pretty new (~18000kms) I wanted to get a beefier set of tires. So I called up a local tire shop and got a set of 31 inch duratracs on black steel wheels.
 

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Janseman

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My first wheeling trip I met Lecoq and some of his friends, a great group of guys and I'm learning a ton from them. Here's a couple pics from my first wheeling trip. It was short but afterwards I was hooked!!
 

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Janseman

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A couple weeks went by and we headed out for another trip, this time with a couple 2nd Gen Xterras and a couple 4runners too.
 

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Janseman

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Our last trip of 2012 was just our small core group of friends, one had just got a new to him 4runner only about 48hours before.
 

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Janseman

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And these are a couple pics from our last trip out and how the Pathfinder currently sits.
 

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Janseman

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I ordered a set of HD OME springs that should minimize the rake and hope to install those pretty soon, also got a set of Rigid Dually's that need to be mounted. In the near future hope to have a set of sliders and skids too.
 

Janseman

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Thanks for the welcome and before I forget, a big thank you to Russellh for his idea on how to mount the roof basket without the factory crossbars
 

stioc

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Welcome :) Good call on posting your's here too!

Nice to see the love for the R50s in this section.
 

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