Jay7779

anybody have any good tips to get the crankshaft pulley bolt off?

So i still havent gotten the pully off, but I counted it out between the left and right sprockets, and I'm off by 4. crap.

Well, i ripped most of it apart, Except the crankshaft pully and the lower belt cover. and the belt looks like its intact... I guess I wont know for sure until i get a socket big enough to get the pully off, but any other sugestions on what it MIGHT be?

Ahh crap. I guess I better start ripping it apart, and praying to god that my valves arent bent. I'll let you guys know how it turns out.

It has 240k on it. I bought it off my mom, so i gave her a call, and apparently she's never had the timing belt changed. I took off the distributor cap, and watched the rotor as a friend turned the key. It didnt move.. Theres nothing else it could be, other than the timing belt, is there...?

No wierd noises that i noticed. Although it did feel like I wasnt getting the power im used to. And i havent ever had my timing belt changed, but I've only had the car about a year.

I picked up my girlfriend from her friends house last night, and while we were driving back my engine just turned off and I coasted to a stop (right in front of a no parking sign). I tried turning it back on and it turns over, but doesnt start. I thought maybe it was the fuel pump, since I rewired it just weeks ago, but its running when i turn the key. Anyhow it was about four in the morning so I called and got a taxi home with plans to go check it out when the sun came out. Long story short, it got towed, and its still not starting. Any ideas?

Also, do you guys think its safe to soder the wire in place?

So it died again, so I took the opportunity to take a look at the top of the fuel pump through that access panel (I probably should have checked it out before i broken down on the side of the highway, but i have a very "If it aint broke dont fix it" Mentality). But anyways i found that the top of one of the little white caps was broken off and the wire was disconnected so i patched it up with electrical tape to get it home. But now i need a permanant solution.. First off, does anybody know what those white caps are called? Or the product #? Also, is there a trick to removing them/installing them? Boy, my pathy would've been a junker so many times if it wasnt for this site

So a couple days ago, I was on my lunch break so i go to the gas station because I knew I was moments away from running dry, problem was, apparently, all the petro-canada's are out of gas and i havent watched the news for a week. But anyways, I turn around, go to the station a mile or so away and my car just up and dies, so i just push my clutch in, and use my momentum to get me off the road and into a parking lot. Im just out of gas so i grab my gas can out of the trunk and continue down the road, grab some gas, and come back and pour it in. I turn the key, the engine turns over, starts for a second, dies. Try again, it doesnt start for a second this time.. So I pop the hood, look at the engine as if I have any idea what would cause it, stand around scratching my head and losing my mind for a good half hour before i think to look in the fuse box, and realize I blew another fuel pump fuse, so i replace it. Try starting, it starts fine!...Until i apply the tiniest bit of gas and the fuse burns again. So i repeat this step a bunch of times with every non-essiencial 10A fuse i have with the same result, and at this point i just want to get it home so i can figure out whats going on with it, so i put in a 20A fuses because i know its not going to blow that (Not a good idea I know, but it got me home). So heres where it gets interesting. On my way home i got some more gas, and picked up some more fuses to replace the ones i borrowed from, and thought i'd give the 10A another go (The gas station only had 20 packs of 10A so what do i have to lose) and it starts up, I apply gas and it doesnt die! in fact i get all the rest of the way home and it doesnt die! I leave my home, go to safeway and it doesnt die! I come back home, and guess what! it dies. There is something that i cant remember if its odd or not though, my car was basically silent the entire time it idled, and came up as about 400-500 on the tachometer (I just cant remember if thats wierd or not, what are you guys running at?). Anyhow, i just didnt drive it for a couple days, and today i started it up, and it seems to be back to normal, it sounds almost the same, maybe a little louder than usual, and its idling at about 800rpm, and no matter what i do to it it doesnt burn the fuse (i've driven about 200KM today with no problems). So anyways, my major questions for you are: What should I be idling at/what are you idling at? Is the fuel pump accessable without dropping the fuel tank? If i did run out of gas, and it wasnt the fuse burning, would the air in the fuel line cause problems like this? Any insight you might have? PS: Its a 1993 XE thanks!

I second the compression rod theory. I fixed my just the other day, but before that it did the same thing

Holy crap! I just sent an email over to my local Nissan Dealer (Stadium Nissan in Calgary), and they want to charge me $280 for a new one and all the collars, bushings, and whatnot. Looks like im buying online... Thanks for the tips guys

Mine's Black/Silver and says "Rollin' Thunder" on the side of it.

Is a tension rod the same thing as the compression rod? When i look in the service manual it calls it a tension rod for the 2wd, but it calls it a compression rod in the 4wd page. I can find the tension rod just about every site i visit, just not the compression rod.

Does anyone know where I would be able to order a compression rod for a '93? I've called around to some local part stores and nobody even seems to know what im talking about, and I cant seem to find anywhere online that stocks them? I've been driving on a broken one for a while now not knowing that it was broken, and it feels like its ready to explode when i hit 80k. I need to fix it asap.