What have you done to your 200 Series this week?

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Took the 1" spacers out.
Got the brakes swapped out back to OEM setup on all 4 corners.
Installed Slee brake lines.
Reinstalled the OEM muffler and tailpipe.

Drove the car around the neighborhood...all was going well and then about 2 miles, turned onto a main road and picked up speed to about 40mph and I started hearing a rotational clanging noise from the driver side wheel. I stopped and didn't see anything obvious.

My initial theory is maybe the dust shield is still hitting the rotor or pads or something....I will need to take the calipers off to really verify.
Reason being, I had to bend it back into shape a little when I installed the OEM rotor because it was hitting the inside of the rotor.
Whenever they had the wilwood bracket on, they bent the dust shield outward. Maybe I didn't bend it back enough?

Wheels are all torqued to 97ftlbs. I don't hear anything when rotating on the ground but maybe wind/speed is needed.

This is how it looked before:

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Check for wheel weights near caliper as well. No need to remove caliper to do dust shield just crawl underneath and pry backwards
 
New AW mats as well as new carpet mats (not shown). It's a bummer that the new mats no longer have the white lettering.
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Replaced rear hvac bezel and gave the screen a polish (before pic).
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nwfl4runner said:
Check for wheel weights near caliper as well. No need to remove caliper to do dust shield just crawl underneath and pry backwards
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False alarm!

Went back out for a third drive and this time I didn’t slow down once I started hearing the noise. Well, I’m an idiot.

I forgot I had taken the roof rack light off and hadn’t driven since then. The wind was creating vibration on the cross bars because the deflector had a cutout for the light bar. Also! I left two of these in the crossbar. These were the culprit. At higher speeds they were basically rattling in there.

Installed the new deflector and went back for a drive and got up to 65 miles an hour with zero noise.

Now I need to go to bed these brakes.

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Sajan said:
False alarm!

Went back out for a third drive and this time I didn’t slow down once I started hearing the noise. Well, I’m an idiot.

I forgot I had taken the roof rack light off and hadn’t driven since then. The wind was creating vibration on the cross bars because the deflector had a cutout for the light bar. Also! I left two of these in the crossbar. These were the culprit. At higher speeds they were basically rattling in there.

Installed the new deflector and went back for a drive and got up to 65 miles an hour with zero noise.

Now I need to go to bed these brakes.

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This is one of those surprises that’s both a relief and annoying. I always love a simple fix but could it at least come before extensive diag and messing about in a completely unrelated areas?!? I spent literal months chasing a loud popping noise convinced it was something suspension related only to find out it was a small rock and a one in a million shot to land itself wedged between the body and frame.

Glad you got it sorted. Also, I really dig the heritage wheels on your LX, I think I’m going to take mine off bedroom decorating service and put them on my wife’s LX, they look too good to just sit there tying that room together.
 
Artie said:
This is one of those surprises that’s both a relief and annoying. I always love a simple fix but could it at least come before extensive diag and messing about in a completely unrelated areas?!? I spent literal months chasing a loud popping noise convinced it was something suspension related only to find out it was a small rock and a one in a million shot to land itself wedged between the body and frame.

Glad you got it sorted. Also, I really dig the heritage wheels on your LX, I think I’m going to take mine off bedroom decorating service and put them on my wife’s LX, they look too good to just sit there tying that room together.
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Yes luckily I didn't take anything apart. I was relatively confident I installed everything properly (because I am OCD and torque license plate bolts.. ok kidding).
I kept looking at the dust shield and thought, no way this thing is touching only at 40+mph.

You know something similar happened to me on the Camry. For months I drove myself trying crazy trying to find this banging sound from underneath the car.
Then one day I was replacing the inner tie rod and I hit something by accident and heard the same sound.
It was the hard brake lines banging against the body because the clip broke off.
 
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Artie said:
This is one of those surprises that’s both a relief and annoying. I always love a simple fix but could it at least come before extensive diag and messing about in a completely unrelated areas?!? I spent literal months chasing a loud popping noise convinced it was something suspension related only to find out it was a small rock and a one in a million shot to land itself wedged between the body and frame.

Glad you got it sorted. Also, I really dig the heritage wheels on your LX, I think I’m going to take mine off bedroom decorating service and put them on my wife’s LX, they look too good to just sit there tying that room together.
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Before you put those on your wife’s LX, would you be interested in trading those for one of these?

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Before you put those on your wife’s LX, would you be interested in trading those for one of these?

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I appreciate the offer but I must decline, that LX is also getting some ADGU drawers and a bunch of other goodies. She and I both drank the kool-aid and just can’t seem to keep either of these vehicles stock.
 
Polecat said:
Finally pulled the trigger on new wheels and tires. Went with 285/75 Goodyear DuraTracs on 17” Icon Anza wheels. I’ve had my eye on this set up for a while but the wheels had been out of stock until just recently. I dig how they compliment the chromed plastic on the rest of the truck. View attachment 4110350

Shout out to @Flatlanderfj40 and his guys at Kansasland Tire and Service for the hook up.
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I dig! I've had my eye on those wheels too. What are your thoughts on rubbing on stock suspension on a 275/70/17 with those wheels? Also what front bumber is that?
 
Not sure I can comment on that tire size, but I bet if you dig through the tire size database you’ll find an answer.

Front bumper is Rhino 4x4. I still tell myself I’ll eventually get it lined up better someday, but someday hasn’t come yet.

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Polecat said:
Not sure I can comment on that tire size, but I bet if you dig through the tire size database you’ll find an answer.

Front bumper is Rhino 4x4. I still tell myself I’ll eventually get it lined up better someday, but someday hasn’t come yet.

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I removed my 200lb bumper to install a bigger trans cooler solo with the help of an engine lift. I apologize for the Nissan.
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My thoughts exactly on how the Red Bull F1 Team changes 4 tires in less than 2 seconds while my current best is 40 minutes. But then again do I know 14 people I would trust... Still very demoralizing when you have 3 vehicles to do.

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siberian said:
But then again do I know 14 people I would trust... Still very demoralizing when you have 3 vehicles to do.
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Sounds like you need to get the dogs involved.
 
I went and did a "memory reset" on the ECU....
oops.

now my TPMS light is flashing and of course I forgot to write down the TPMS sensor values. I even thought to myself, I should screenshot this.
 
Sajan said:
I went and did a "memory reset" on the ECU....
oops.

now my TPMS light is flashing and of course I forgot to write down the TPMS sensor values. I even thought to myself, I should screenshot this.
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How did you do this memory reset?

TPMS should be stored in a different module than the ECU.. if you had the ability to view the IDs, have you verified those spots are blank now?
 
bloc said:
How did you do this memory reset?

TPMS should be stored in a different module than the ECU.. if you had the ability to view the IDs, have you verified those spots are blank now?
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One sec. Let me connect techstream back and get you screenshots of what I did. I was trying to reset the learned driving parameters.
 
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