TerryD's Pepper: Family Adventure Rig

JOSX2 said:

Welcome to the club! first mod...remove the oem steps ;-)

Regarding getting out of 4-LO...ya need to be in neutral (to both engage/disengage 4-LO). Put Pepper in N, shift into 4-HI, then put out on D. Drive forward a bit and it'll shift out. And sometimes to get back into 2WD, ya can reverse a couple feet after shifting into 2WD.

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First things first, I drove it about 70 miles home from Staunton where my friend I bought it from met me this evening. Did 75-80 most of the way home, it ran out nice and smooth and was much nicer to drive than the 2000 S10 Blazer it is replacing.

First thing I had to do when I got it to the house was check out the 4WD system. I locked it in 4-LO and idled it around the yard a bit, did some side hilling in the back yard and crawled it up and down a few little hills I have here. First issue, I couldn't get it back out of 4-LO. The 4WD light came on and the shift indicator went blank. I shut it off, restarted it in N with my foot on the brake and after moving it from 4-HI to 2WD a few times, it took off and the indicator came back on in 2WD. I've read about this so I wasn't caught COMPLETELY off-guard.

Next was to move all my little junk over to it. I moved my truck box (straps, wheel chock, few fluids, tire patch kit and the like) into it and strapped it to the back of the back seats. Next was putting my 2m ham radio in it. Not knowing where I want to do a permanent of the antenna, I grabbed my nmo mag mount and stuck it on the passenger side in front of the rear most roof rack leg and ran the coax down behind the rear gate and up through the storage compartment to the console where I set the radio in the big square spot in front of the shifter.

After that, I couldn't take the mud flaps any more so I pulled it around back to the garage and took them off. There's some fading that'll have to match on the rear body sides and some scratches where the fronts contacted the body but that'll be fine, NO MORE MUD FLAPS!

The tires are factory size 265/70/16s and are in great shape so I'll run them off it this winter and maybe next summer, after I research exactly what I'm going to do, I'll be shopping for some 265/75s and a 2" kit for it. Unless I can score a 226 with a locker before then for insanely cheap, I doubt I'll go any bigger on tire size for now.

Oh yeah, my daughters all decided that the Xterra's name was going to be "Pepper Blue" for some reason, but they name all our vehicles so I'm going with it.

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Jmb1596 said:

First thing you should do is do the transmission/radiator bypass. I was unaware before joining this forum. You don't want smod, from everything I've read it's pretty easy and cheap to do and will save your trans.

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Jmb1596 said:

First thing you should do is do the transmission/radiator bypass. I was unaware before joining this forum. You don't want smod, from everything I've read it's pretty easy and cheap to do and will save your trans.

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Xscape said:

Congrats on the new ride! We took our last Xterra to the Outer Banks and it did excellent while running on the beach. I was actually amazed how well it performed in mostly stock form. And we never had to put it in 4LO!:thumbup:

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TerryD said:

If I correct the format, will this get moved to the members section or have I done something else wrong?

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TerryD said:

If I correct the format, will this get moved to the members section or have I done something else wrong?

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Old Navy said:

Can be moved back - all you have to do is follow the posting requirements;

http://www.thenewx.org/forum/50-mem...les-please-read-***-updated-03-26-2008-a.html

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Old Navy said:

I would have helped you out, but I busy taking care of a lot of Spammers that have attacked the site right now.

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