pathfinderfisherman

well while the boys were at basketball practice yesterday morning i found the culprit....it was a bad plug wire....i got rid of my old pathy so i don't have a spare to pull(there were so many things i should still have it for in case, i only pulled things i could see it ever needin...lol) ...but i was tryin to change the plugs while they were in the school and i tried to pull off one wire and it was in bad shape, i almost pulled the wire of the end connector on the plug, i thought it was off and saw the core wire still goin down to the plug....sheeeewwwwww!!! lucky i didn't strand us....i ordered plug wires and i hope no more miss putter...lol stay tuned.....

Ok first off...hey everbudy, missed you!!! hope you missed me more..... my new pathy is a 95 SE VG30 auto....(my 93 finally passed due to frame rust) never had a problem with the 95' till one of the kids got in and left a door open and ran the battery down really low...which made me think ground...for a second..... she will drive fine one day and then the next acts like someone spayed water under the dist cap .... which was a problem or so i thought...i knew it was part of it because the oring got so big it could fit around the outside of the dist. and when i took the cap off to look at the cond of rotor it fell out i replaced the ring and cap and rotor...on the day the boys had a big sledding/tubing fun day with their school a couple weeks ago....i was in the big hurry so i took out the distributor to remove a broken bolt on rear of dist cap...and did something i had never done before, i hope everyone gets a big chuckle on this one....... so the grab-it extractors didn't work i eventually drilled it out and put it back together....new cap new rotor and the oring...but not even a hiccup...wouldn't fire at all....i ran up to the computer and scoured the FSM....i got back down to the truck and checked the ECM...a big ol' 55 on the flashes...i was lost....standing in front of the truck tryin to figger how it might be possibly out of time and how i was gonna get it to fire....my oldest son said the spark was good...after i turned the key back off...i told him he could let go of the wire and screwdriver....(yeah what a jerk huh?...but i know for sure how much worse it could be, as i had the ol' 93 running once and tried to remove the plastic guard on the coil, it pulled the wire off and the spark had to jump a good 6 in. to get me, it blasted me zappity zap zap....till the engine died...I never knew it fired those cylinders so fast at idle....) It was soon after that i realized i yanked the dist without checking what cylinder it was on......UNREAL!!!! i can't believe all the years workin on motors i forgot to do that!!!! thats what a hurry does to ya i guess...when ya know everything....got her buttoned up on time and the boys made it to the winter fun shin-dig.... once it was buttoned up she still has the intermittant miss, sometimes...like this morning 5 miles up my road to highway, fine.....turn the corner and the next 4 or 5 mi to the gas station missed.. all the way...filled her up added some iso heat jus in case...never missed once for the next 40-50 miles..i shook my head the whole way, while my buddy kept sayin how it was water in the gas......left it running for 5 minutes and it missed all the way home...(that shut him up)...... now i will get some new plug wires had to order em won't be here till monday or later....but..the reason i thought it was possibly wires is it sounds pretty consistant 99% of the time, like it misses on jus one cylinder i did check the ground to the ecm with my fluke multi meter....seems fine...before i add a secondary ground i want to poll the collective.... I know there is a relay next to the washer fluid that causes intermittant starter issues sometimes...been there done that...proved it true on the ol' 93 is there a relay that could cause missing....???? or another ground wire that i'm missing???? just anything aside from ecm or plug wires.....that I might have forgotton????...cause outside of a ground to the ecm or plug wires shorting...i dunno......it's driving me as always thanks in advance

I member reading a post that helped me once.... might help if nothing is shorting under the cap since its new http://www.nissanpathfinders.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=5194 .....oh make sure the connections are all clean to msd and out..... that way there is the proper signal going in to the box....

Ok ol' boy says if all your wiring is clean at connections it is either in the alty (voltage regulator) or a dead cell in batt. most likely for the 41 code....... then I found this about the 41 code...... "I would trace the wires assigned to the field coils of the alternator because that is what the 41 code is referring to. Basically, one of the four wires at the alternator should have 12V applied on it when you turn the ignition switch to "run"; that is the source of voltage for the field coil. Then another wire should go to the engine controller, and that one should oscillate due to the controller's action between 0V and 12V which is what modulates the field coil so that the output of the alternator averages at around 14v when the engine is turning it over. The other two wires are a fat ground and of course the fat 12v wire to the battery directly. The code is saying that there is a short (presumably to ground) on either of those first thinner two wires so that there is no magnetic field being established in the field coil. I hope you can sort out the wires without having the color codes"............ He said the 12 could be a dead cell batt too.... to check batt, and alty then reset the ecu and check after running 10 min.........#1 disconnect the positive battery cable off the the battery and ground it to the negative battery cable for a least 30 sec.... #2 Reinstall positive battery cable....#3 Turn on the ignition on but do not start.....#4 Turn head lights on for 30 sec. then turn them off....This should reset your computer.Then recheck your codes. then while I was poking around I found this http://autorepair.about.com/library/faqs/bl561g.htm ..... it seemed nice to me I hope it helps

hey kit i got a buddy who is all jeep all the time....I'll see if i can catch him at home...(he don't have a phone) he'll probably be able to say something....and i'll get back 2 ya

Well it wasent the pulley.I am leanin toward precise's throttle body leak or the engine is trashed ..........I decided to wait, it was an xe anyways I been tryin to find a nice LE it was just the nicest frame ever, if she ever comes to her senses i told her to call before she junks it..........

the TB sounds kinda iffy and i can see it being that it jus seemed maybe a grating when i stuck my head close prob jus the eng runnin norm ....I could hear nothin over it lol and if theres that much air movin through that motor it should come off the ground and fly I'll brave being near her again and take a spraybottle of water (maybe some ether too)and my tools with me........If noone has any sterotypical howlin i'll maybe go back and check the ideler and around the tb damn .... the motor was responsive though from the trottle under there when i was listenin could it run real good and have the tb hurt yer ears????

212,000 on the dash and she has no prior knowledge or any paperwork of it... i'm jus using a general knowledge of motors that i have.....lol......ive never in 30 yrs heard a pulley do that and i moved around much as poss to triangulate the source .........with her telling me it had a little oil leak that someone told her was "prob" a valve cover lol......I was really wondrin if a main going out howls on a 93-wd21 .. If I would have remotely thought it was that pulley id'a checked it............and it really sounded like a mini hurricane.....i couldent hear the motor over it...I'm afraid of very little and it scared me lol I felt really bad that i din't give her $1500 and let it blow up on me on the way home(like I said she might be a witch... siren type @!*% lol)... and I will do that and even get ya the # to the bar lol ....don't look her directly in the eyes

she said the noise wasent there when she bought it a month ago by the way ( she knows nothing about engines and me tinks the whole drunk bartender spin with a DWI makes her nonbelieveabukle) be careful should you run into this witch she almost had me ....I had to break direct contact with her big pretty medusa eyes, talk to the floor or she may bewitch u......shes built like a brick ----house too....if ida kept staring at those eyes i would have probaly left with an old rusted chevy....

yeah but the noise wasent from that pulley and didnt seem to be from the pump but.....ehhhhh could be !!!! (old bugs bunny ref)

the 95 i just bought will be fine and then off it goes usually comes back in a few sec's......

I was looking at a 93, it came from AZ and this chick tells me she got a dwi and needs to sell it ........i was set to start the bidding at book she said a pulley was going bad I make the trip get the key and fire it up it sounded like a hurricane was behind that top idler pulley 3-4 times louder than the truck...if it was the water pump it would be leaking fluid i would think... she said it started to leak a little oil.........when the main goes out would it make a howling noise like that guys??she got mad when i offered her 1200 but no-one will buy it sounding like that.. I just want her beautiful body.......(the girl wasen't bad either) I have never seen a frame that clean ever!!!!some of it was shiney under there So whats the verdict from the collective?????

jeez i get so tired with the lookin for answers and trucks now the wife hits a deer with the gt then week later mopve into the new house arrrggghhh i can make those arrows hell i did all kinds of stuff with pdf's when i did my patent......so no need to post back on that one ive done that stuff in the past with adobe lol what fun times