mrvent

My truck is 17 years old now, and the western Canadian winters have taken their toll on the body, but the engine runs as good as it did 11 years ago, and like then, the gas mileage is still between 28 and 32 miles per imperial gallon.

Even when the transmission failed spectacularly, it still brought me home (about 140 miles) in the only gear it had left — fourth. The truck has never left me on foot, and is as reliable as the day I bought it back in 1990.

Used parts are very easy to come by, and are generally quite inexpensive.

The only real negative I’ve noted is that the front seats are not especially comfortable, and seat spring breakage appears to be a common issue.hen I got it had the cream paint and body was rotted to the ground, but it ran great even with a blown head gasket, I totally restored the body and fixed the head gasket. Finding body parts for the bed rails   of that truck was extremely hard, I pretty much made the panels for the bed, when I was done with it, it looked awesome though, it had a 3in lift on it, chrome roll-bar and brush guard, I put a header on it, it did good for being as old as it was on all of the original drive-train, when I sold it, it had 210,000 miles on it, and I still see it running around to this day, those trucks really were built to last.

Prior to my owning the truck, the rear parking brake cables had seized due to cracks in the cable sheaths. The replacement cables from Nissan had rubber reinforcements to protect the affected area.

Alternator failed at around 240,000 km due to a shorted internal rectifier diode.

At 285,000 km the standard transmission failed when the front bearing on the countershaft seized, and the countershaft broke. The outer part of the bearing had spun in it’s seat, damaging the transmission case. Clutch was replaced at this time, out of convenience.

At 290,000 km, the electric choke failed due to intermittent internal connection.

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