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Leuthesius
Posts: 249
Joined: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:52 pm
Car: 1996 Infiniti J30 - Totaled by Hail RIP
1995 Smurfima - Blown Head Gasket 230k miles RIP

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My 95 Altima has pretty much sat except for two 100 mile jaunts since February of 08'.

On Monday, I drove the car from my grandparents farm/ranch thing where it's sat since about February this year, because my Infiniti J30 was just totaled and I needed a car.

It started right up, and made it all the way to the Insurance Company's parking lot where I parked my J30. It didn't start after that.

A timing adjustment, new distributor, new rotor, new cap, new ignition coil, new battery, new wires, plugs, fuel filter, starter, and fuel strainer later, it STILL will not start.

On the off chance that the gasoline that was in there had water in it, I dumped a couple of containers of anti-water-in-gas-stuff in it.

So as to not just sound like I was shooting in the dark, the symptoms were as follow:

Shotty runabilityOil in the distributorburned up rotorIncinerated Borg Warner cables (f*** that *hit, seriously, got my money back--third set I've burned through, literally)Fowled spark plugsDead batteryInconsistent spark (ignition coil)worn out distributor capClogged fuel filterSticky starterand a fuel pump strainer that apparently just fell right off.

Even with all of these things which actually HAD to be replaced, the car is still not frigging starting. The only ignition piece I haven't replaced is the ignition control module, which I have tested 3 dozen times and confirmed functional.

Ideas?

Check off list:

I AM getting fuel to the engineThere IS spark, though it seems to be running a little on the orange side

An aside, I am getting error codes on the odb2

P1320 - Malfunction ignition misfireCrankshaft position sensorCamshaft position sensor

The camshaft position sensor is part of the new distributor that I just put in, and it doesn't make any damned sense for a new distributor to squawk that code unless it was defective initially.

The crankshaft sensor is testing at 584 ohms of resistance when it should be 428-532, but shouldn't keep the car from firing, last I checked.

And I don't even have a clue for the ignition misfire code, unless that's a timing issue, maybe?


Leuthesius
Posts: 249
Joined: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:52 pm
Car: 1996 Infiniti J30 - Totaled by Hail RIP
1995 Smurfima - Blown Head Gasket 230k miles RIP

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UpdateVerified fuel pressure between 45psi-48psi with just the pump running.

Syphoned out old fuel. Put in new fuel.

Still no start.

1125Altima3.5
Posts: 137
Joined: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:24 am

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Sounds like a timing issue to me (like you've noticed). Have you done a continuity check of the camshaft position sensor wiring?

Given how close to defunct that car is, I'd just go through the FSM troubleshooting routine for all your error codes and call it a day. If that doesn't fix it, I'd probably just get $500 beater '92 Civic to hold me over till the 1st car is fixed. Would probably be a better use of your time!


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