Posted: Jan 12 2012 at 9:11am | IP Logged

I finally got the truck I have been looking for.  Since I bought it through Carmax, I want to check with you Frontier gurus to see if it was worth taking in to have checked out and/or adjusted.  I am a certified motorcycle mechanic, so I am more than capable to wrench on the non-complex stuff. Id rather not have to wait hours or days for Carmax to get around to my car when I can do it in 30 minutes or so.

1. When depressing the clutch pedal in order to start the truck, I have found that I have to, sometimes, push the pedal all the way to the floorboard, practically trying to push it through the firewall in order to get it to start. 

Is there an adjustment for the clutch pedal?

Is it possible to just pull the electric wiring from the pedal, attach a wire to the ends of the wires so as to create a closed loop (making the truck think that the clutch is engaged for starting), therefor making it unneccary to have to push in the clutch at all?

 2. This truck has 68k on it.  It has spent its past life, since new, in Raleigh and Charlotte NC.  4H may have been used once in a while, but I cant imagine 4L ever being used.  I am in Chicago, and I will need to use 4H, maybe not 4L. When I put it into 4H, I hear a little noise and vibration, as I would expect.  I put it into 4L, just to see, and there was a very loud clunk and grind noise, and the transmission shuttered.

When putting this electric transfer case into 4L, are these characteristics normal? Should I take into Carmax while I am still under the 30day warranty window for this?

Thanks!