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> On Jun 4, 2022, at 2:32 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Been working on the '04 Frontier the past three days. > > First project was replacing the fuel tank. It had rusted around the perimeter > seam and would seep fuel if it was more than half-full. Got a new tank from > RockAuto. Replacement was tiring as every bolt was rusted. The joys of living > in the salt belt. Lots of PB Blaster consumed. One bolt was so bad that the > original 17mm head had shrunk to about 13mm. Of course it was the least > accesible bolt also. Fortunately the tank was the most rusted at that spot > also, and just pulled free of the bolt. I later removed it with one of my > Harbor Freight bolt extractors. All bolts replaced with new 10mm x 1.25 x > 30mm from Lowes ($2.08 each!). > > Also had some struggles with the plastic "quick connect" high pressure fuel > lines. Don't know why those are used instead of regular threaded compression > fittings. I guess it must save a few seconds on the assembly line. One of > them came off OK but the other one came apart in pieces. Managed to get it > back together, though had to replace a torn o-ring with one from my Harbor > Freight Viton o-ring kit. No leaks, thankfully, as I suspect a new line would > have a good chance of being NLA from Nissan. > > Next project was replacing valve cover gaskets. The truck was leaking quite a > bit of oil and that looked like the likely suspect. The right-hand cover is > pretty easy to get to, just needed to unplug a few wiring harneses. The left > hand cover is buried under the intake manifold but the oil leak was on the > right-hand side so I just did that one for now. The gasket was hard as a rock > and there was about a 1/8" gap/crack on the lower side. After an oil change > and a test drive, the oil leak seems to be resolved. Need to do the left hand > cover at some point but going to let that dog lie for now. > > Finally, an AC recharge. It has not held a charge and I suspected a bad > schrader valve on the low pressure service port, as I saw some bubbling there > last time I charged it. The system still had some pressure but not enough to > cool. I got one of those devices that can change the valve core without > losing pressure -- very slick and worked great. Didn't see any bubbles at > that port this time. Fingers crossed that it holds the charge. I used R134A > with "stop leak" in case there are other slow leaks in the system. > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
