Glad I could be the guy to do it! Thank you and thanks for watching.

Angreed

It's my pleasure man. Thank you for saying that. It's a lot of work but it's worth it if you guys enjoy it and it's helpful. 💪🏻

I was going to say basicly what was just said above. Thanks so much for doing that tear down. I have a much better understanding of where everything is on my 2005 Nissan Xterra SE 2WD@@Rythecarguy

@@JCEverett77 that's awesome! Glad to hear that. TBTH I kinda just did this video for fun but it makes really happy that it seems to be helping people out.

Wow, thank you man, I really appreciate it. 👍I do the best I am able to do with what I have and being a one man show. It means a lot that people actually like it.

💪🏻💪🏻 hell yea, that means a lot to me. I was worried about moving to series so I love hearing this. Thank you.

Thank you! :D

Thanks! You too!

Thank you! Its my pleasure, I love helping out.

Thank you, I appreciate it!!

Thanks so much

Thanks! 💪🏻

Glad you like the channel! You’re right, normally I just pull it by the old “wiggle and pull” but this one was hard as hell for some reason and I was not about to deal with it. As far as the heads, I really was tearing this down as a “watch me tear this down” and not a “how to tear down a VQ” I didnt make it clear in the video but I would hope that people would not tear down a VQ the way i did if they were actually planning on reusing it. If anyone was actually going to buy the heads (no one did) I would have made it clear how they were removed and that they would need them tested and possibly decked if they were not perfect. Anyone buying used heads should be doing that anyway. Neither here nor there though, 99% of that engine went to the recyclers to be melted down into white claw cans. 😂 Thanks for the feedback dude!

Thanks so much man!

Hey that's great info, thank you! How did you end up handling NATS and the wiring harness?

@Rythecarguy there's really only one person that does the conversion as a service, and that's Brennan over at drivendesire. His turnaround is pretty quick. As for NATS. There's two options. If you plan on getting aftermarket headers and uprev, it can be tuned out completely. (Expect to pay a bit for this) But less you have an entire titan, you can grab the BCM out of the titan and swap it into the xterra. Should be same plugs. Than remove the security chip from the titan key and xterra key. Put the chip from the titan into the xterra key and your set. However, I couldn't get another key programmed correctly (I only had one), so I ended up tuning out NATS with uprev to create keys at a much cheaper cost.

@@ke_ata thanks for this info! Brennan has been hard AF to get ahold of lately but I am still hoping to get it out to him to complete. I love the idea of the BCM because I am parting out my Titan anyway. So I will move that over. I also heard you can change the NATS antenna and the key cylinder in the ignition so you can use the same keys as the titan as well. I want to do that because I have two titan keys and two remotes. The Xterra only had one key.

Thank man, I’m about to have another one that needs to get pulled apart. You can do it for me if you want lol.

@@Rythecarguy haha I wish I could lol 😂

Thanks mike! 💪🏻 this week we dig into the Titan .

Thank you! 💪🏻

Thanks!

Agreed. But it works well.

I had a similar problem. It turned out that the rubber O ring from a spark plug socket got stuck on the spark plug and wedged in the boot!

😂 and if we're being real, it's not sometimes... it's most the time.

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Lol some how You Tube put my comment on another vid on this vid. Anyway another awesome vid thanks for the great work man. I'm trying to decide if I'm going to rebuild my Fronty motor. Got 416,000 on it and it finally developed a large enough head gasket leak that I don't think I'll be able to fix it with head gasket sealer this time. It's been such a great truck and a great engine that I really just want to keep the truck but as you can imagine the truck got 416,000 miles of hard work and play so she's dinged and dented and the drivers seat is pretty much work out so I'm also looking for another 2nd gen crew cab LWB 4X4 to replace it. Truck prices right now though holy smokes.

416,000!!! You officially have the most miles I have ever heard of on the VQ. Is that all original core components? Including bearings? Thats a tough call, I would say that if you are able to have extending down time for the truck then putting new head gaskets in and redoing the timing would be a good move. If it continues to work for you then an investment of probably around 1500 it way cheaper than buying a new truck.

@Rythecarguy Yea all original components for the most part engine wise as far as I know. Ive obviously replaced suspension and brake parts over the years and I bought the truck used with 60,000 on the odo and put the rest on myself so not sure what if anything was done by the 1st owner. Over my ownership I replaced 2 radiators due to leaks, one at around 150thou the other around 300thou, and the heater core around the time of the 2nd radiator due to the hose attachment gasket on the fitting on the heatercore failing. I put new plugs and coils on the truck at 300thou thinking the poor running conditions I was having were due to me never having replaced them before. But it turned out I needed new catalytic coverters. So I put new Cats on the truck around 350thou after the Cats were so clogged it was putting my truck in limp mode lol. I've been a little hard on the truck and ashamed to say a bit lackadaisical on some maintinence lol. I did change the oil every 10thou with Valvoline High Mileage syn blend and used a Valvoline Purolator One oil filter over the life of the truck. At the time I had my Cats replaced I also had the valve covers replaced because I had a pesky leak that was dripping on my exhaust and really causing a stink. Oh and since I never changed the fluids in my diffs my rear diff went out at around 350thou and decided to put a new rear end in the truck. I did do a lot of towing with the truck over the years so I blame the diff failure on myself. Then ofcourse around that time I developed a small headgasket leak and was burning coolant in cylinder 5 with a good bit of white smoke in the morn when I started up the truck. Used some head gasket sealer and it fixed the problem until 416thou and now I've got another good sized leak pouring coolant on the ground. It's been a Great truck and if the body was pristine which it is far from as it has been a hard working truck all it's life then I would probably just drop another engine in it. But it's pretty beat up and I think the only way it comes back to life is if I try some serious gasket sealer procedure or replace the headgaskets which is an undertaking of time that I probably can't commit to. So more then likely it'll be a parts truck for the next one I buy as I'm hunting for one just like mine right now. Funny thing is the long bed crew cabs are harder to find then the short beds. Anyway they are great trucks and I've seen comments on lots of Frontier you tube content where owners have talked about their trucks going 400 and even 500 thou. Of course not sure if that's all original. If I was a better owner and better at preventative maintenence I believe I could have easily gotten my truck to 500thou. Definately going to be going for it with the next one with the mindset to treat it a little bit nicer.

Thank you. I hope it does. I am already spending a lot of money on this. Lol

Only the best for Nissan 😂

No, never heard of him. Is this his style? If so, what a champ lol. and Thank you! 😊

I bought Bronco recently, but refusing to sell my 2015 Pro 4-X. It will have a VK heart one day. She’s going to be a beast.

Yea, I am trying to get ahold of Brennan from Driven desire since everyone else basically says no and tells you to go to him. But I cannot get him to respond to my emails for anything. We are coming up to the deadline though and if he does not get back to me I will need to figure something else out.

Glad you like it. Thanks. The first 4 videos of my VK swap series is removing the Xterra Engine. Here is the first video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jMenZrGes9_PpIU.html No rebuild series on the VQ40DE yet. Only on the VK56DE

Thanks! Can’t wait for the rebuilt!

@@nissantwinturboz one day. Lol. I'm picking up two VQs tomorrow so if one needs a rebuild I'll record it.

@@Rythecarguy awesome dude!!!!! :) Thanks!

Unfortunately no. I don't have any experience or access to a vq35

Idk but every time I tear down an engine it just has this very distinct and terrible smell. I hate it.

It's very heavy but if you have one person hold it and you leave two of the caps on, you can probably remove the two outer caps and safely lower it down, but I don't know how you're gonna get it back in there.

I'm pretty sure the 3.5 in the z has more power than the 4.0. The later 3.7 definitely does. Although the 4.0 ( being its for a truck.) may have more tq idk tho

I'm doing the exact opposite and it's been working pretty well lol

Oil changes are #1! Do that and its amazing what you can get away with.

Wild right? You gotta stick with the basics.

If its on your O2 then its 99% likely to be your valve covers. These are notorious for leaky valve covers.

@@Rythecarguythat’s the very 1st thing I did along with tune up covers and gaskets, the oil leak is still there?

@@ExtremeKustomz615leaking cam sensor o-ring?

@@nathankelly7259 I figured it out it, RTV was too thick wouldn’t let the valve cover seat properly causing it to leak.

They are great. I love this motor. I bought a spare that's just chilling in my garage for when mine goes out.

Nope. VQ40DE

Yea, knocking and smoking.

Oh man, I'm sorry, I just scrapped most of this engine since I had not heard from anyone. Crank is gone.

Really tho!!

I inventory some to keep in my garage and recycled the rest

@Rythecarguy oh was wondering if you selling them. I need crankshaft and the piston rod

@@juanhernandez5547 I think I have a crankshaft but I recycled the piston rods

@Rythecarguy let me know if you interested in selling the cranckshaft ,I'm rebuilding my 06 pathfinder and mine got really bad due to spun bearing

@@juanhernandez5547 I would be happy to sell it to you. Email me at ry@rtcg.tv

Thank you! That engine was broken. It had many problems and I did not want to put the work into it to fix it. So I recycled all the pieces.

Right?!? Insane.

Agreed.

I think most motors are good if you maintain them. Some just take a lot more maintenance than others. I will agree that the VQ40 does have some faults but they can be easily remedied. The VKs seem to be pretty great. I am seeing a ton of people put crazy miles on them with nothing but oil changes.

Other than the timing chain tensioners, I think the VQ40 is one of the better “modern” Nissan engines. Of course you have the VG’s.

Actually Nissan makes fantastic engines. I have owned cars with VG30, SR20, and VQ40 engines and all have been fantastic as long as you perform the maintenance.

He's probably referring to what my dad( Veteran master mechanic) calls “modern nissans” which he says is when fiat came in and although they simplified things by putting a 2.5 or 3.5 in every car, this saved nissan as they were in trouble however there quality and reliability suffered massively. It's no secret that nissan cars are not great. Even the Z is not great like it used to be. However the trucks and suv seem to be a lot better. I was wondering if it's because up until the 2nd gen X they had distributors still and rear drum brakes must be the last company to do this. I have a 1st gen 3.3 x and I specifically avoided the 2nd gen because I have heard the 4.0 has many issues? I sorta wish I had the 2nd gen now.