David Attenborough (whispering): "And the shy little sister peeks around the door jam to make a rare appearance before our cameras; and then darts back behind the door...)"

Nice Truck! Your sister is sweet. I don't blame her for being a bit shy given you have 290k subscribers! That's a lot of strange eyes.

She lucked out having the worlds most dedicated mechanic and the queen of clean as her sister I’d happily have this myself , a great buy and looks honest Put it on plenty it’s something new for your skills and anything you do will make it better and that’s starting from a pretty good place She’s shy but she’s sweet Sarah and some nice company for you Win for all of us ❤️

She is now an official member of the Manual Preservation Society!

Kudos Celine! You'll never forget your first vehicle. Enjoy!

I knew she's get a manual trans, although I'm sure big sister had some influence there. Shift away young lady and enjoy wherever the road takes you.

Your little sister is in good hands. Keep the Xterra content coming. There isn't enough on KZfaq.

With that mileage, I'd be checking the catalytic converters, they could be restricted, which would put a fair bit of heat into the heads, causing valve cover leakage.

Heidi from home improvement 😂 nice... very nice...

its nice to see big sis helping little sis out

"That's a tachometer" - funny to read it here on old continen 😀 Cool car and cool Celine! 😁

So excited for this series. Always wanted one.

Celine is beautiful just like her older sister. It will be cool seeing her build with the others. Welcome to the group Celine!

Love this series and yes go with the Grey all the way for the bottom trim. Also great buy. Hope you do find your New Shop space as well.

2nd shop seems like a better space, room to expand that your already paying for. And there won’t be any noise ordinance issues being at the end of a runway.

Its great that you and your sister get along so well‼️👍

Greatly enjoy this new dynamic on camera between you two 😊 and getting out out of the garage once in awhile is good for ALL of us 👍 just the greatest!

AWESOME! Finally a 4x4!! Ok: 7” drop differential lift kit, Bilstein 5100s frt 5160s r, 35” mud terrains, toss both bumpers and get off-road prerunner style ones, RCV axles, diff lockers, Kryptonite tie rod outers, Moog Problem Solver ball joints, 20x10 wheels with a negative 19 offset, cat back performance exhaust, K&N air filter, KC Hilights and toss the nose ring! :)

What a find! Congrats Selene! 🍾 No need to be shy, we’re all pretty friendly here 😊

A huge congratulations to your sister, love it 👍😁❤️

Wow... great find! So happy you have your sister with you, Sarah. There has been a definite sparkle in your eye since her arrival. Cheers, John

Super fun vlog. It was great to see you embark on another project. Thanks for always working hard, it’s inspiring for those of us home-garage repair peeps who manage to break more than we fix! You’re fearlessness on insurmountable projects is pretty dang amazing.

Your sister is going to love the Xtera.

You're a good big sister!

She has the BEST.SISTER.EVER, and that Nissan looks nice! Sarah, you're amazing!🤗

That thing is worth 3 grand, With just your detail job!

Good video and it appears to have lifted your spirits as well Sarah having your sister around 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

That's a lot of miles. A timing belt should be pretty near the top of the list.

congratulations Celine, you have a great machine there.

Enjoyable video. Your sister is sweet. Her 4X4 will be interesting to see the work on. Looking forward to seeing her develop her skills.

Little sister: transportation Big sister: CONTENT!

Seems like a great 1st vehicle and once washed it looked even better. Well done ladies.

So nice of you Sarah 4 helping your sister out... MAD PROPS TO YOU...

Looking forward to seeing this project come to life. Already looking much better. Definitely needs a ceramic coat for Arizona 🌞

Great buy, black 4x4 with air, good start, good work, good Family values and entertainment, upgrades and detailing needed, keep rock`n it!.

Congrats Celine. Good to have a master mechanic close by too. 👍Black out the whole front bumper 100%.

That is a great find! I had a 2001 Frontier, which is mechanically (and dash wise) very similar. Great vehicles. I agree on the comment about the timing belt. Please, Don't wait on that, and get the entire kit with the water pump and all seals(cam seals). I put a K & N intake, and a Gibson exhaust on mine and gained torque and HP. Never dyno'd it , but it pulled better and I gained about 1-1/2 to 2 mpg on the highway. Great to see you and your sister working together.

That is a FIND! I look forward to more on this project.

The channel, content & story lines keep getting better. That and you're a wicked cool big sister. $1800 - you stole it - and it has the best home it could have ever gotten. Lucky car.

I would love to see the xterra project. Great vid!

Looking forward to this series of restoration

What a great deal! My wife and I really wanted an Xterra back in '05, but those were a lot of $$ new. I instead found a used '97 Isuzu Trooper 5 speed manual 4x4, and it was a blast offroad despite no locking diffs. Very low gear ratios. At about 60 mph it was doing 3000 rpm in 5th, just gulping fuel. Traded it in 5 years later and still see it from time to time in another town when we go there.

You should rebuild the engine and swap out the old faded plastics on the outside and headlights for new stuff and ultimately leave it like new like you did the Celica, that'd would be an amazing series to watch.

Nice to see you both enjoying each other. Always entertaining and informative.

Fun fact, the Cessna 172 has the same style parking brake as well 😜

Awesome! You will have her polishing bolt heads in no time!!

Am sorry if I’m commenting too much but really like your channel and I hope you don’t mind the tips given. I can see you are a awesome mechanic and are super intelligent so really no tips are needed for you but sometimes there’s something we all can learn from each other no matter how experienced we are. Thanks for sharing, have learned a lot from you too

Yep. Grey all over. And more vids like this, havent had an older project on the channel for a while.

Check when the timing belt was done also Sara. The VG33 is a interference engine.

My god who doesn't wash a car before selling it

Grey is a nice contrast to all the black.....consider painting the roof of the Xterra white to help keep the heat down inside, it makes a huge difference.

Stick shift is the way to go,I miss my old 91 Chevy S-10, 2.8 liter 5 speed. That little truck was a workhorse!!.. NICE FIND👍

What a wonderful Sis you are Sarah. Welcome to the jungle youngster! Love u Sarah 😍☘️

Hope this shop works out for you and welcom your sister to the chanal

DO THE TIMING BELT IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHEN IT'S BEEN DONE. I'm an avid Gen1 X enthusiast. My dad bought an elusive Atomic Orange one new in 03 and it's been in my care for the last 5 years. The Timing belts on these have an 80-100k interval. If the belt snaps at low RPM, you likely won't have valve damage (hydraulic lifters), but if it snaps at high RPM you may end up with bent valves. If it manages to skip teeth more than a couple, you WILL bend valves. Replace the water pump and the thermostat at the same time since it's all there. Valve cover gaskets are definitely known to go bad and the right one tends to leak oil right onto the starter and take it out. Oil pan gasket tends to be leaky too, but that's kind of a PITA to do. That too can make it look like the rear main is bad.

YES XTERRA! I'm biased because I own one but I LOVE IT. Don't forget to check the Timing Belt, too!

You are a great sister . This world needs more people like you that care for family . Great work on X terra . She’s gonna love it

Nice pick for a truck for her. Big fan. Timing belts are every 70,000. If you don't know if it's within spec I would do it. It's a big job but it's an interference engine.

Sarah is being awesome with her sister. Good vehicle for a younger driver. I had a 95 Nissan hardbody pickup with the 3.0 v6 and 5 speed.

My first 4x4 truck was a 97 Nissan Frontier with well over 200K miles as well. I'm on my 3rd one now. Change the oil, buy some tires occasionally , replace the timing belt - these Nissan trucks will drive forever. Excellent choice! Nice to see you guys spending quality sister time, you can tell she adores you. Great video, thank you.

The bumpers off fade on those things. My wife had one it was a beast and went through all the snow Missouri weather could throw at it we ended up giving it away to a relative still running of course

Score! Couldn't happen to better folks. Have fun with the new project.

Helping your little sister so nice of you.

Manuals were already rarer to begin with! Most companies had a 10% stock in their inventories of stick shifts; however, that number is no longer the case! Manuals transmissions are usually lighter and perform well, with many more options. Congradulations!

That is so cool big sister is helping out little sister! It's great to watch family work in harmony and love!

Bummer about the shop, but hope a new space works out. That Xterra would be worth at least $4,000-5,000 up here given the lack of rust. Crazy. Congrats on the new rig and so boss that it's a stick shift 4X4! So lucky to have a sister like Sarah to help fix it up. :)

A water pump. You’re the coolest sister in the world! And you have perfect face bone structure like a painting of an angel

What a great sister you are. Very different personalities for sure. 👍

Sarah's such a sweetheart for helping her little sis. Btw, cuteness and sweetness runs strong in Sarah's family. :) I agree that the grey trim is a good contrast to the black paint.

A little polish and ceramic coating will get that xterra looking new again. While at the junkyard you need to find the original side steps.

I'm looking forward to seeing how you two turn that truck around. You're a good sister.

Great choice in a use vehicle. Sarah ,,, you the best Sister !!!!

That Xterra should be a fun project for both you and your sister. Looking forward to more.

Great vehicles. I have 2 2002 Xterras with the Super charged engine. Both 5 speed manuals. One with 170k miles the other with 308K and still running strong.

For the faded plastic: Trimblack, although used motoroil works great on them too, just put a little bit on an old rag and wipe, then wipe the excess off! Done mine 2 years ago and still looks perfect. Don't use a heatgun, it sucks the oils that are still left deeps inside the plastic all the way out to the surface and thus makes the plastic WAY more brittle, and it'll just fade again. Plastic fades because the oils dry out of it at the surface... That's why the motoroil(for some reason) and trimblack etc tends to work really well: Because the plastic absorbs the oils. I'm not sure why but new motoroil never seems to work for me lol, the used oil works better somehow.

Now we have two of you to brighten our days ! Keep up the terrific vids.

What a deal! Manual 4x4 that's great and also avoids the biggest failure point on these. I test drove one of those when I was looking for my cheap overlander, but it was automatic.. and it hadn't had the auto transmission radiator coolant bypass done yet. 😳

Congratulations on you first car Celine. I love my first car, still have it a 90 Plymouth Laser RS turbo with only 77000 original miles

Big sister wants to work on it ! Lucky little sister 😀

your a really great sister Sarah .

Hi, Celine!! Congrats on the new ride!!

I can't wait to thw end of the video. Buy it , buy it . Killer truck and killer price. I sold my 2006 yesterday and still crying. Yes, paint all the plastic, do truck bed or rhino paint for durability. I did the same

Sarah you are such a good person so nice of you to help your little sister out with her first car...p.s you looking wonderful as allways. Greetings from Ireland😎

Looks like a solid vehicle for a smoking prince. Having a big sister to whip it into shape is a nice bonus..

You're a good big sister! Congratulations on Celine's first car :)

"Screwdads" is a very technical term.

Love Xterra! I have a 2001 that is SASd on 35s, ARB rear locker, Lower Tcase gears.

Can’t wait to see how this ends up, gonna be amazing that’s for sure😀😀

New & unexpected content makes your channel interesting. One good thing about the 2nd shop is the nearby junkyards. In the flight pattern of military aircraft, not so much. You need to talk with the paint & body guy at the 1st location. He probably has no clue what you do or what KZfaq is.

Just discovered your channel a few days ago and I’ve been kind of been binge watching the videos ever since the MR two time lapse. I hope this Xterra content keeps coming! you have an amazing channel you are super smart about cars it’s very impressive and entertaining because of your funny personality!

Love Celine’s new truck! Look forward to seeing it transformed with a bit of Sarah OCD magic!

Eastwood plastic resurfacer will make the bumper covers and wheelwell trim look like new.

Best of luck with the 🚙... you got a great older sister they are looking out for you!!...Sarah can’t get scammed by car scammers little do they know🤫

You are the coolest sister ever!

Great looking purchase - looking forward to the upgrade/reconditioning on this =)

Celine is an awesome addition to the channel‼️👍

Fantastic episode... going back to basics. 👍

I have to agree with many subs on this. You have a wonderful project on your hands. So many opportunities with that Xterra. It might be fun to “theme” build it in to a Baywatch rescue rig!

That XTerra should make for a good vehicle. That motor combined with a Manual should make it pretty bulletproof. For 1800$ you can’t beat it. It even had decent tires under it. I’d give that for it anyday of the week. Great job ladies!!👌🏽

Yes Xterra gang! Great reliability and off roading potential! Plus they are just cool and unique in my opinion but im biased.