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Henry

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  • Your Pathfinder Info
    150,000 miles
  • Mechanical Skill Level
    Wrench And Socket Set Mechanic
  • Your Age
    36-40
  • What do you consider yourself?
    I Go When I Can
  • Model
    SE
  • Year
    1988

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    California
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    United States

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  1. I used an old hose attached to an old dog squeaker toy on spark plug #1. Cranked the engine until I heard the squeak and then put a long rod in the cylinder until it rose to its highest point. The marks on the pulley were lined up at the first mark (0”) to the pointer.
  2. Well I did move it one tooth- and lots more room for adjustment. It’s running great, sounds great and handles great. I just have no idea where the timing is. I’ve tried the gun on each wire and nothing seems to be lined up. If it’s all seemingly working well should I still worry? Not sure what to do now other than take it to a shop with better tools? one odd side note - when I did line everything up to TDC the mark on the pulley was pretty much at 0*. So I thought it was all good.
  3. Well I tried this too. Nothing gets it spot on. It did get close enough on two of the spark plug wires to see the marks... but they are quite a bit off to the right (clockwise) of where they should be. is it possible that I still have the distributor off one tooth? It’s at the end of adjustment where it will start and idle. If I rotate the distributor at all in the other direction it stalls the engine. Can I be that far off on timing and still have a running engine?
  4. No settings other than advance which I have adjusted. It gets closest at 0”.
  5. You’ve been super helpful!!!! Thanks so much. I did have it at TDC. But retraced everything today using your advice and even crafted a hose duct taped to dog squeaker toy to find compression. It worked great. Turns out I have been pointing the rotor at the #1 spark plug—but at closer inspection of the cap I realized the actual contact was not where the #1 spark was. It was closer to #2 the whole time. so now I have it running and I’m trying to set the timing. I bought a cheap harbor freight timing gun but it flashes nowhere near the timing marks. I know on some engines you need remove a vacuum hose from the distributor. My Nissan doesn’t have on the distributor. Is there something else I need to do in order to get it to work? (I took one back thinking it was a bad gun, but the second did exactly the same thing). thanks for all your help me reverse!
  6. Thanks for your input. Definitely hoping it’s not the timing belt. I’ll check again. If I did have it at TDC but not on the compression stroke, does that mean I’d just flip the distributor 180 degrees?
  7. Hey there! I’m new to this forum. I’m having problems getting my pathfinder running. It was diagnosed to have a bad distributor so I replaced it along with the coil and module. (1988 pathfinder SE 4WD) Now I’m having problems getting it running. I have removed the distributor over and over trying to get the timing right. I had to start over and find top dead center. When I adjust the distributor I can get it to sort of run but with my foot on the gas and it sounds like crap. As soon as I release my foot it dies. It seems that the distributor is at the end of its adjustment. If I turn it to the end of the adjustment (counter clockwise) it gets to this state of “almost starting”. The other direction makes it not want to start at all. Could I be a tooth off somehow? I’ve tried repositioning the distributor quite a few times but to no avail. I believe I have it lined up properly at TDC with the rotor on the #1 spark plug. What else should I be trying?
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