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

also i might add i looked at that page of the fsm a hundred times and now with the red arrows .................. good thing it wasn't a snake...........

she jus said the little light didnt come on and it wouldent lock up ive never had to look at my front 4wd before so i was supposing the hubs were elec or something.... i think she like many people (including my wife) can't tell if its in 4 wheel even when the tires are grabbing on corners lmao....I'll know saturday....leave it to the pathys to keep it real without any unneeded garbage like my chevy....vacuum locker junk stranded me once and i dint know i could push it up with my finger under the batt to engage it...it now sports a power locker.... so now i need to figure out if i should mess with it or buy another..... hope its not the transfer case ewwww

thanx again 88 u are the man how did you get the little red arrows????I could use that myself also the chick who owns the truck says she took it to her mech. and she said he said "axel is going bad" she said when she turns it it makes some slight noise i fig it waqs a cv joint or the like....we'll see ill see saturday it is one of two im going to settle on,my pathy is out of comm.....sorta..... im going to look At two sat.... one has 100,000 the other has 200,000 and is a thousand cheaper than the lower milage.....probably be drivin that one back with the "axel " prob if it needs any thing ill use it off my pathy..... What say you all on the matter of "axel" and turning noise the little guy on my left shoulder says buy the low milage...that way it'll be less probs and last longer (and he's probly right) the little guy on my right says buy the cheaper high mileage one "we'll" fix it...... truth is the right one is hardly ever right and he's too little to turn a wrench anyway, the wife won't understand but 100k and no rust im all in....... she doesn't help as much as the little shoulder guy either sooooooo....I guess i'll jus be happy then..........

as some of u know i have been increasing my pathfinder "fleet" lol and i ran across one where the 4wd light wont come on or engage the locks ......ive looked all through my factory sevice manuals and cant seem to find enough to tell me what makes the light work a switch on the transfer case or where it is............i'm gonna try and look at the wiring diags now but i could have sworn i saw something here too..............maybe the prob could be fixed with new manual lockers eh????

yeah well u gotta know how i am by now i actually jus bought one this morning gonna get it shipped to me and what the hell i guess i will get another i saw for 1900 it's funny the neighbor was shakin his head and mumblin about he would never buy foreign......lol i said thats good since it was hard enough to find the ones i did , I don't need u drivin up all my cars i will need for parts now..I'm glad I know a secret...well you guys all know it here too,Pathys are the cats a**......i'm steerin everyone i know to new pathys and subarus...if they don't want a new pathy then i tell them they need a subie lol i might get the wife a imprezza.....and oh boy the rally type fishin trips i could have I can feel years of awesomeness ahead..........

thank u very much....except now i dont have the top model thanks alot.....hehe once again Thanx thats exactly what i needed to knowi was passing up alot of les for no reason i guess i thought le was base model

I own a se and i must now find at least one pathy right away asap like tomorrow..... so i guessed mine was the top model but maybe i just got the best ops i have heated seats...leather int...31 inch tires stock....will my rims and tires work on the le,and xe, cause i noticed not many 31's on le or xe what all is the same if were talking comfort options or what and bonus i saw the post about the junkyard car with the npora stickers in the windows now i have to get some !! count me in im goin to read about them now ......................................... deal is i now need two pathys im gonna put my wife in one since we toasted a deer in the GT on the way home from my wifes college tonite we buried her other car christmas eve now all i can think of is getting two of the most dependable vehicles i know and can work on tada pathys came to mind.. so here i am to draw knowledge from the collective again.... resistance is futile

red path 88 can probably help tell u what wires colors are i think he might have an fsm for the older ones i think i might like a copy myself... these pics are how i did mine...to test and make sure the resistor will work and the other bridged in dont get scared the pics aare a 300 z i think but the principle is the same let your ecm think the sensor is good u can see the wires go down under the mani pull that plug and see if sticking each end of the resistor gives you a 55 code

well kiddies it was that damn wire again jus corroded a little i took a dremel to it and cut a groove in the top of the one that was loose then soldered it in probably forever .......i made overhang like a dovetail joint and put the wire in that....shoulda done that the first time still both times it happened parked in that same spot the wife was last to drive it both times i was the one to have it not start lol..... My truck loves me....i think it's tryin to blame all this on the wife.... my wife is like a black cat to any vehicle she has lol she's car unfriendly or accident prone whatever maybe if i let my wife watch that stephen king movie about the car she wont even want to drive it anymore..after being framed both times it looks kinda bad lol Trout through the ice tomorrow, yay