Car dies at Idle...

[Bigkawim_240SX]

So i just bought my first car (1191 Nissan 240SX) and its being difficult...

Basically, it runs fine (and has for the past few days) but now all of a suddent when i turn it on and its at Idle, itll strt going down, back up, down and then just dies out

Any idea what the problem might be???

HELP!!!

Karim

[soilwork240sx]

vacuum leak

[Cyberkreig]

check your intake pipes and vaccume hoses.

[Bigkawim_240SX]

ok...help me out here...how do i CHECK these things...

Vacumm leak has come up more than once so i guess that might be it..

Is it a serious problem..what do i have to do?

I also realised if im at Idle and i REV...the higher i REV...the closer it comes to chocking on the way back down...does that help any??

thx aslot for the help guyz!!!

Karim

[quiksilvia]

check all of the hoses in the engine bay, they are black and u could fit something like a bic pen through it if u wanted, for size analogy. the revving thing makes sense, make sure all of the hoses are connected and visually inspect them for cracks or holes. welcome to nico, and dont forget to search, big red button at top right, first for any other questions, not this one really, but in the future

[TheDonEffect]

Interesting, I was in the same situation not too long ago. I just bought my car, drove it a while fine, all was well. Woke up one morning, start it cold, fine, drove around, dropped someone off, started it back up, fine, parked, thirty minutes later, start it up, started, needle wouldn't steady, and just died. Started again, same stuff. Eventually it wouldn't even start.Do what I did, first get to the ECU and read the code. The codes can be found on the FAQ on 240sx.org. Chances are you had what I had, a bad fuel pump. The ECU told me, however, that I had bad injectors (which I initially thought) but took it to a mechanic since I was stranded and sure enough, a fuel pump later and here I am still driving.Chances are, it's your fuel pump or something in your fuel system, if there were a leak in your intake plumbing, your car wouldn't die because air would be getting to your engine, just not filtered and not through the MAF which will upset something, but not kill the engine. Sounds to me ample fuel is not getting to your car, and in my case it was the fuel pump.My two cents, cut me some slack cuz I'm a newbie on this board as well, but feel free to correct me. Best of luck to you.

[quiksilvia]

welcome my nissan brethen