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That is an insane price for an engine, even at a dealer. What year, mileage, and engine? These engines are not exactly rare. Shared with Titans, Armada, Frontiers, and Xterra. Engine failure is a rarity

Sounds like someone tapped into the factory tail light wiring for the trailer wiring. Bad idea. Overloads the BCM. If damaged they are an expensive fix. Get the factory trailer wiring kit. It is extensive and runs the full length of the van all the way up to the passenger door. The factory tow wiring completely isolates the trailer wiring from the vehicle lighting. Bad grounds, shorts, overloads, backfeeding won't screw up the vans lighting system. The bad part is it takes work to install the factory trailering wiring kit. For someone who is simply trying to get trailer wiring as fast and easy as possible, tail light tap is quick and crude. The local U-haul does this because it is the fastest way to get your money and get you to leave. Use generic parts, not actually getting the correct parts.

They just bolt in. Number of leaves are the same, just the thickness is different. They are heavy!

Sounds like you have a bad adaptor. OR you are trying to pull more power through it than allowed. What are you trying to power all at once that is blowing the fuse?

I'll pretty my vent up once I get the wood floors installed

Mr Buddy is not vented. You get issues with CO, O2 depletion, and excess humidity. Exposed surface ready to ignite random stuff it comes in contact with. That is where the hot air heater is nice. Warm dry air, just like a forced hot air in your house or office. Combustion is 100% vented outside. The extra hassle of having another fuel (in my case diesel) would be no different than having to deal with propane bottles. Probably even easier and cheaper.

2500 has lighter springs, smaller tires, V6 standard. 3500 doesn't. Probably a few other things that are not disclosed. Nissan isn't going to tell you how to convert to a higher GVW. And there is the legal thing of exceeding the GVW which puts any issues on you. If you need a 3500, just get a 3500 and don't try to engineer your own.

I would look for a 2016 or newer for the V8. Engine has more power, is more efficient, and the gearing is better. The gearing is a big thing I like. I would conisder the biggest downfall is it you are not creative and want everything pre-made for you. With the Nissan you can do just about everything, but it is you doing it. But the good thing is you get what you want it to be and not a copy of everyone else who has done it a million times.

I didn't like how it was going to line the fuel line up directly over the exhaust cat. Mine is a 2kw diesel. Installed differently. Fuel tank under the hood next to the washer bottle, holds right at 2 gallons. The heater itself is in a box under the floor. Pulls air in from the back of the passenger footwell (plenty of air gap between the trim, nothing to see unless you remove the trim). Vent comes up through the middle of the floor through a defuser. If you wanted it trick if could move forward, pull from the front of the slide door footwell, over to the driver's side wall, up the wall and shoot out sideways. And not have a hole in the floor. Or mount inside behind the driver's seat. The real nice part is there is a good 6" gap between the floor and the top of the frame/gas tank at that location. And lots of room between the frame and the rocker panel as well. So many ways of doing this. Don't know why you are so fixated on mounting it under the passenger seat.

Parking lights are not turned on by the light switch. The light switch tells the BCM that the switch has been turned on. The BCM then tells the IPDM to turn on the lights and that triggers the relay(s) for the lights that are commanded. You won't find a wire under the dash to turn the park lights on.

I think the Harbor freight tire changer (with bead breaker) is only $45

No need to dismount the tire, thus no need for a rebalance. Just break the outer bead, reach in and do the swap. Barely any more than doing a valve stem.

Well, looks like another dump and run. Joins, makes a derogatory post about how bad things are, leaves to never come back again. Join date is the same as the post, only post ever made, last activity is the same day that he made the post.

Buy aftermarket at $55 for a set of 4 and have the system work correctly. Many years ago I was towing a trailer with an SUV. TPMS light came on, pulled into a rest area. Wow, right rear tire was nearly flat. Couldn't feel it on the highway. The back was a little squishy, but that is how it feels with a trailer. Without the light I would never have felt anything odd until the tire came apart and destroyed thousands of dollars worth of stuff. Maybe a few lives as well. Is the light annoying? No, it is money saving. Just fix it right, use them as they should be used.

Start with the basics. You do have the engine running? Right? Nissan isolates the trailer power when the engine is off so the trailer can't run down the vehicle battery. Not all makes do that. Some will let you pull the starting battery down via the 7-wire trailer plug. The fusible link (the thing that looks like 3 fuses in one) just pulls out. Has the friction of 6 tight fitting terminal frictions holding it in place.

Welcome to 2021. EVERYTHING is on backorder. Not just service parts, whole vehicles. Insurance companies are totaling repairable vehicles because they can't get parts to fix them. And it isn't just Nissan. It is every brand there is.

I have no idea why the 4th digit should matter. There were some flex fuel engines, but those were just bigger injectors and different materials in the fuel lines, and some computer tweaks as well. The basic engine is still the same. Might matter if you were not moving all the harness and injectors off your old engine.

2008-2015 Titan and Armada Before 2008 there is a different cam control, single variable instead of dual variable. That would throw codes and probably run poorly since one cam would not be controlled correctly. 2016 and later are a completely different engine/transmission/controls/etc. The last couple years of the 1st gen QX56 almost work, but they are a little higher compression ratio. Probably don't want a premium fuel engine so I would pass on that.

Frontier, Pathfinder, Xterra. Note that you need to keep your transmission, it appears to be a beefier unit than the small trucks. Also need to keep your harness and sensors. Those changed over the years. But the basic 4.0 engine is still the same. Side note that the early engines '05 - 09(?) had issues with timing chain guide wear.

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The Nissan vans are really good. But accidents have too many variables. In high school there was a head on crash between a Yugo and a Volvo. The Yugo driver walked away and the classmate in the Volvo died on the spot.

I would be more worried about the side airbag calibration.

Until the dealers have sold all of them, they still need to put the info out there.

Nissan garantees parts availability for 10 years. Saw that somewhere in the fine print. Beyond that most of the part also interchange with other Nissans. Add in the parts sourced from suppliers (Timken bearings, etc). There are people still daily driving cars that are 50, 70 years old. Factory parts for those dried up decades ago. But they keep going. There are ways to find the parts that are needed. I keep using my 60 year old boat that the manufacturer went out of business 45 years ago. The manufacturer of the drive is still in business, but only reference they have is historical information. No parts. But you can still find what you need to keep it repaired.

There is 19HP held up in the exhaust. No tuning needed to get it. Everything is the same as the 394HP Titan except the exhaust is smaller.