All great points! The reason I went with Frontier, was Gladiators and Tacomas are everywhere, and the cost difference. I picked my P4x up certified for 25k during the pandemic and was able to purchase a rack, RTT, and TSwap suspension all in for less than the cost of an older stock Tacoma lol
nice video. thanks. I recently traded in my 2006 Xterra for a 23' frontier pro4x. Already have a fox kit on my 23' pro4x, maybe when it's paid off in a few years, I'll install a titan swap. nice to see you also did the front M205 diff. Where did you source the titan diff? Let me know if those parabolic leaf packs squeak. mine did. and were pretty stiff, need lots of weight over the back end for it to ride nice.
Picking up my 2015 pro4x tmrw and I’m excited. Looks like you just got this recently so I can’t wait to follow along and pick up some tips! Same color too
nice rig..just picked up a 08 xterra with a blown rear differential for 2 gran (dont know if thats a good deal or no lol) anyway i figured id upgrade the diff since i have to change it anyway what year donor titan did you get your parts from or weather any year will fit?
Its refreshing to see a new awesome Xterra in the Nissan community im in a frontier but i used to have a x so i still feel like im part of the x crew 😂😂😂
I think 4.10 gears are about the limit on the Nissan ive heard of people with 4.56 but its few and far between one was a guy with a sas on a frontier pro4x and the other guy dod it on a titan swap x but i never heard anything else about it from him.
So wait. You can change out to the front Titan diff, is it ok to run the stock rear diff? No gear ratio problems ect? Awesome video, thanks for the content!!!
Awesome! So you used 1.5" Spacer for the rear to Karcher the track width of the front? I asked the question once before and people where saying I needed 3" spacers on each side for the rear to match the front
Nice Xterra ! i sold my gen 2 2010 Xterra and bough a mint low mileage 2000 Xterra SE in yellow, have always loved the first gen body styles and the 2000 - 2001 had a very good limited slip diff before Nissan weakened the LSD in the 2002 - 2004 because of costumer complaints of chirping tires going around corners in the 2000-01 . I do mostly forest roads and back roads to Lakes, hiking trail heads and fire lookouts and have a mild 2 inch lift with 32 inch tires, love my little yellow Xterra !
Nice job man! I just did a axle swap on my sv to a m226 from a pro 4x. I already put the Bilstein 5100 kit from ado on with their uca's. I really am thinking hard about titan swapping but i definitely want to replace my r180 front diff but the only thing holding me back is ill need to regear bc im on 313 gearing and i dont feel comfortable doing the regear myself installing the diff is no problem but if i go to 35s i definitely gotta get rid of the 313 gears.
I’ve never seen someone take apart an entire front end and NOT remove the brake rotor. It’s literally just floating. It’s the heaviest part & it’s not attached. Just rubber mallet whack and the rotor falls off. Have you never changed your brake rotors?
No I haven’t I tried removing them with a mallet must of not hit it hard enough they were in good shape with little wear as the previous owner had replaced them per the carfax less than a year ago.
Have 2 questions if you have time, 1st can you swap LCA and tie rods without for time being the UCA? 2nd how do you change out the driverside motor mount, I can't get to the 2 bracket bolts under to pull it out because of 4x4 differential any help thanks
I have the older version without wheels. While it is a bit power hungry, it is a nice unit. The Eco mode can cut down on power consumption quite a bit.
I ran the fridge on regular mode with my Ecoflow fully charged and the fridge set at 32 degrees. It went 37 hours before it died. I also just used the 12 volt lighter plug for the trip to Arizona for 10 days never really dropped the voltage in the Xterra running all night.
Did you extend the correct rear brake lines? It looks like you still have the rubber lines from the axle to the body which I thought were the ones youd want to extend to allow for more axle droop. I didn't think the length of the lines from the middle of the axle to the rotors would change with the lift.
You changed the wrong lines. The soft lines to the calipers are fine because nothing changes on the axle when you lift the rear. Where you need extended lines is the flex lines from the body to the axle. You will eventually rip out the stock length brake lines at full droop. @trailxploration
Amazing build. Will be following! So what did you do with the void under the back where the spare was? Thats a good location to build in a steel box for Air compressors or power accessories etc. with the spare on the rear.
Nice. I literally just did all control arms, bilsteins w/ ado rckilla kit, new leafs, shackles, etc. also ripped out my abs sensor when i dropped the knuckle, oops. Needed a new ABS sensor. Had i known the job would become so involved, i would have rather done this titan swap... I was impressed what my bone stock 07 off-road was capable of with just 33" tires. Ive wheeled toyotas and fords before, I think you'll like the xturd
Awesome build! I've been looking at getting a used xterra as my first off-road vehicle. Size-wise i just like it much better than a 4runner. How many miles do you have on yours and how many miles do you expect it to last? Also what are your opinions on getting the off-road/pro-4x version vs other 4wd versions without the rear lockers? Any buying tips in general?
