Recent content by Danakin

I recently noticed what I thought to be a wind whistle through the roof rack cross bars but later determined to be a mechanical squeal. It comes in softly at around 45mph sometimes and fades out above 48 then comes back in around 55 and fads above 57ish. If I'm running 60mph and lift off the...

Hey, I'm loving it! No issues using it as a dd to work. It's rwd so no off roading. It was nothing more than a car that I don't have to fall into and pull myself up out of. I'm consistently getting 24mpg. That's double what I get from my Titan XD I was driving to work every day. I've flushed the...

38 cold but 40 when I checked them so right in there. Door says 33 so I ran them up 5. Mine is 4 cylinder with nothing heavy or aftermarket and everything is bone stock. I had lots of goodies on my 4x4 Frontier then got my Titan XD and added a ton of fun stuff. Got 12mpg in it and didn't care...

4cyl. 5 speed. No interstate. Keeping rpm low and 40psi in the tires. No aftermarket accessories. Highway tread tires. No lift and I'm at sea level on the NC coast. I would love to have a 4x4 with a V6 and set it up for overland but right now in 2022 I'm happy with it like it is! I'm loving this...

There's some pretty awesome off roaders on here and I know mpg's aren't the driving factor for most with these but what got me here was the desire to find what I could get for cash to drive to work at anything better than the 12 mpg's I was getting with my truck. I am happy to report that what I...

I will reluctantly admit to wearing a Matt Kenseth hat for a time. I tried to live up to my obligation to be a redneck but alas I found myself bored watching them go roundy round. Please don't tell anyone around here! They'll take my redneck card!

Did you know Kung Fu was written for Bruce Lee? Apparently he was "too Chinese" for Hollywood at the time. And would that be Easyriders Magazine?

The kit was 500, 800,1500 then a 3000 pad then a polishing wheel with some 3M compound. After that I added a Turtle Wax compound that I presumed to be a little lighter, followed by Meguiar's Speed Compound, Turtle Wax Hybrid Solutions Ceramic Polish Wax and finished with a clean microfiber...

Ahhh! Tank you! Tank you vedy much!

Don't you just hate it when you get halfway through a project and realize you forgot the before pictures!? So these look terrible but I cropped them out of see bigger pictures I had. Suffice it to say my headlights were just shy of useless. I used the 3M kit you use with a drill. Has sand paper...

Well you can rest assured I've heard it all and dished it out every bit as much. I've been in construction since I was 17. That's 30 years of far more than snarky. I reckon this day and age we would probably get fired or worse. Just struck me wrong to see it on a forum. There's a whole wide...

Fantastic! Thank you so much!

That's funny actually I'm 47. I thought the source of the snarky was the under 30. I'm from the south though. In the good ole days down here we made the world go round with a little bit of respect. I just saw somebody share a bit of info and what followed read like a disrespectful attack on...

I think I'll get a quote but I'll definitely include the pulleys and water pump. I'm a firm believer in doing things while the opportunity is there. So am I understanding there's an idler pulley and a tensioner for the serpentine and the same for the timing belt?

So I bought this '04 with 150,000 miles and it came with very little background info. The last owner kept good records but didn't have it very long. No record of timing belt replacement. I feel like I need to do it now since I don't know if or when it's ever been done before. I guess that means...