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Axelpkt
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So I just went out to my truck and tried to start it and it won't start. It has a fast crank it just wont turn over and the one time it did it ran real rough then died out. The weird thing is it ran perfectly fine yesterday. Any ideas??


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Timing Belt may have jumped a tooth on one of the sprockets. They can do that sometimes when the belt gets old. But it is rare. The belt may have simply broken.

The Pathfinder V6 engines are interference fit, which means the valves can hit the pistons if the timing is out of phase. (Valve tries to open while the piston is traveling up. This bends valves and is not cheap to fix.)

Take your distributor cap off and turn the engine over by hand using a wrench or ratchet on the crank pulley bolt. If the distributor's rotor turns when you turn the motor over the belt is intact. If the rotor doesn't turn....well the belt broke and you need a new one!

Either way you have some investigating to do.

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Axelpkt
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its an 02 people, aka no timing belt, timing chain. Then only code I got was P0462 which I plan on checking out tomorrow.

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Axelpkt wrote:its an 02 people, aka no timing belt, timing chain. Then only code I got was P0462 which I plan on checking out tomorrow.
P0462 Fuel level Sensor Circuit Low Input

Found this: (can't post forum because it's a competitor here)I'll post all of the info in a sticky

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RE TIMING CHAIN:DOh....I forgot it has a 3.5L not the 3.3L ....My bad


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