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Thanks for the replies guys. For some reason I’m thinking it is a bad mass air flow sensor. Especially if they can just kinda work. I’ve had bad connections and while this car certainly acts like it could be one… at the same time it doesn’t. It acts more like a computer going nuts or at least SOMETHING important going nuts.
Do any of you guys know if the other cars with this engine from the same general era use the same maflow sensors will interchange? Specifically the pathfinder ones. My local pick a part has several of those.Thanks for the replies guys. For some reason I’m thinking it is a bad mass air flow sensor. Especially if they can just kinda work. I’ve had bad connections and while this car certainly acts like it could be one… at the same time it doesn’t. It acts more like a computer going nuts or at least SOMETHING important going nuts.
Do any of you guys know if the other cars with this engine from the same general era use the same maflow sensors will interchange? Specifically the pathfinder ones. My local pick a part has several of those.and I was scared to hit enter for fear that it would submit my rant a little prematurely.
But that doesn’t seem to be the case 😀
and I was scared to hit enter for fear that it would submit my rant a little prematurely.
But that doesn’t seem to be the case 😀
Well, by “it goes crazy” it generally acts like its running out of gas more or less. It starts missing really bad. It will keep running most of the time, but only at idle. Will not take fuel. And I have the hood off with a FPGauge connected inline and it doesn’t change. So it is getting fuel. If I turn it off and start it back up 90% off the time it will clear up and run better for a minute or two. ( literally) Then sometimes I can drive it for miles without a problem. The other night it ran like it should for quite a while. That was a first. Had plenty of power, no misses. Yes, it needs a complete tune up. But I’ve done the balance test by pulling the injectors one at a time and they each caused about the same RPM drop. I sprayed pretty much everything with water at night and didn’t see a spark one. I’ve never had a sensor go bad on a car, so I hate to blame one,(other than an oxygen sensor or two) especially by the condition a few of these connectors are in, but messing with the air flow sensor seems to cause improvement sometimes. Are these symptoms something it could do? Thanks for your relies guys.
Well, by “it goes crazy” it generally acts like its running out of gas more or less. It starts missing really bad. It will keep running most of the time, but only at idle. Will not take fuel. And I have the hood off with a FPGauge connected inline and it doesn’t change. So it is getting fuel. If I turn it off and start it back up 90% off the time it will clear up and run better for a minute or two. ( literally) Then sometimes I can drive it for miles without a problem. The other night it ran like it should for quite a while. That was a first. Had plenty of power, no misses. Yes, it needs a complete tune up. But I’ve done the balance test by pulling the injectors one at a time and they each caused about the same RPM drop. I sprayed pretty much everything with water at night and didn’t see a spark one. I’ve never had a sensor go bad on a car, so I hate to blame one,(other than an oxygen sensor or two) especially by the condition a few of these connectors are in, but messing with the air flow sensor seems to cause improvement sometimes. Are these symptoms something it could do? Thanks for your relies guys.