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My husband reminded me that the guy left the old distributor in the truck when we bought it, so I took it apart to find the sensor and it was there, under the plate below the rotor. I've ordered a new distributor so I don't risk damaged any parts to replace the sensor. I'm downloading the FSM now to have it handy as well.

After finally getting the Haynes manual yesterday, I think what the guy I was talking to was referring to on this vehicle is the crank angle sensor. What I can find on parts websites, it looks like a disc with a box on one side. One or more of the fuel injectors being bad is another fear I have that may be the issue.

Iknow this will be kinda long, but any help is greatly appreciated. I recently bought a 93 Pathfinder and was told a bunch of parts had been replaced, but it turns out that most of them weren't replaced, were replaced incorrectly, or were replaced with used parts. We've already repaired a couple of things that were necessary, but in the last 2 days we've had a new issue pop up. It was running fine and my husband drove into town and as he was driving the vehicle just cut off. It did the same thing 3 times, but cranked right back up each time. The next day, it died randomly while he was driving again but still cracked back up. After parking it at one point, it didn't want to crank at all. It has a brand new alternator and battery, but somebody jumped it off and it stayed running for about 2 minutes, then bogged down and died and wouldn't crank again. I got off work and somebody else offered a jump because it acted like the battery was dead. It took several attempts to get it cranked that time with it going between trying to start and not trying at all. We ended up having it towed home because on the 2 occasions we did get it cranked, it would run for about a minute and then bog down and die. After sitting for a day, we used a jump box and it cranks up fine, but still bogs down and dies after several minutes running. I'm thinking it's the crankshaft position sensor, but I can't find the sensor to save my life! The part online also shows to be a disc shape, but in any videos that I watch it looks more like a tubular shape... which one is correct? I need to get this vehicle operational ASAP, so any help is greatly appreciated!