I've spent the last week now, dismantling and reassembling my 00 maxima. So without further adieu, here is what I have done.

New control arms w/bushings
New ball joints
New tie rods (inner and outer both sides)
New stabilizer links
New cv joints
New struts and springs (excel-g and Vogtland )
New rotors all around w/ceramic pads (brakemotive off ebay)
New speed sensor
New radiator fans
25mm spaces on the rear

So with a list like that, you can imagine some of the hell I have been through. Passenger side cv was stuck in the hub. Strike one. Took the whole control arm to my mechanic, he ended up beating it out with a mini sledge. So back to the house to continue on. Reassembly on the front continues on with ease, short of being impatient and messing up my nice new yellow calipers, now on to the rear. After figuring out how I wanted to lift the car on my sloped drive I pull off the tires and the brakes and think "wow, this is going WAY easier than the front"....well Murphy heard me...the damn lower strut books were seized. Strike 2. The struts were still the factory ones. They were to the point of stripping the carrier for the nut side and then both the bolt and nut. So as my little Asian friend would say "choppy choppy", and then a trip to Fastenal was in place. $10 later I had new nuts and bolts to replace the old ones. Being rushed to finish the rear today to get it in for an alignment I totally said "**** it I'll paint my rear right caliper later" and wrapped everything up. Strike 3.

So after the alignment I get to enjoy driving it and WOW, so much better...up until I get about 5 mIles away and try to take off from the stop light. It started chugging and wouldn't got over 15ish. So I immediately pull over, turn the car off and start it back up, problem went away. Autozone pulled p0100 and p0110. Strike 4...wait aren't I out after 3?

ANYWAYS...end of the day everything is better than it was so....YAY!

Thanks to all who actually read this far. Pictures to come soon.

 

does the 5th gen have a REAR speed sensor?

 

Seems like you had a lot of fun Definitely put up some pics, I really wanna see those yellow calipers!

A few months ago, I had my step-dad's mechanic attempt to press my bearings and hubs in along with new cv axles. Why? Because I had to work 12 hour shifts for the entire week and the car was jacked up in the driveway and the city gave me a three days notice to fix my car. The mechanic did the most *****iest job putting everything together which ended up causing my brand new brembo blanks and hawks to literally grind against each other because the axles were not pushed in all the way. He ended up seizing my axles at the same time which required some major hammer time. Had to drop another $500 to do it right this time by myself.

 

If you are asking about the geared speed sensor, yes to my knowledge it does. I have the replacement but honestly ran out of time. It's unfortunately still on my list of things to do. It ran BEAUTIFUL today down the interstate. No more wobbles, clunks, or rattles.

Oh and I switched to mobil1 full synthetic motor oil and AMSOIL full synthetic ATF.

 

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After





Rims are going to be dipped black before too long

 

By no means am I finished. I was rushed to get it put back together...

 

Awesome job, I've got those same rotors

 

look at that beautiful lack of rust!

 

I love me some white {pearl} Maxima! Nice car you have here and so much work done on it! It looks quite similar to the 2001.

 

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After

 

Nice...!

Please, can you Explain what the 25 mm spaces in the Back do?


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nice tint. what brand is that and what percentage?

 

Pushes the wheels further out. Makes the wheel well look fuller.

 

That's Kewl Man...i like that.

Can you point me to how i get a pair of those too ?

...thanks man!

 

Just dipped the ENTIRE car red with the grill flat black, Going to do the side marker lights black soon. The rims are dipped black then glossified.





Glossified black rims with the yellow caliper. Hmm feeling the need for a BBK already..

 

Yes it is body is dirty already. Gotta love the life of a daily driver.

BTW I rattle canned the car myself at the cost of hardly $20 and using near 16 cans.

 

No way u only spent $20

That's a nice look

 

besides looks it also changes the track width, there fore changing the handing of the car. which has its benefits.

 

i liked your car before the plastidip........

red maximas are awesome, but.. idk

 

Curious, why did you only put spacers on the back and not also on the front?

 

there is no correlation between putting spacers just on front or back or both. its all about what you want at the time.

i had back for years , and only untill later i got fronts also.

our cars rear stance are really bad stock so thats why guys do rears only in general