Idle issues

[olinaficionado]

Okay so I have just finished a 2000 mile road trip along the east coast. When I was traveling south and in Atlanta, I looked down and to my dismay, I noticed that my stock 1993 FB was over heating. As soon as I could, I pulled off of the highway and called a tow truck. I was promply taken to the nearest Nissan Dealership, where the problem was described as a cracked radiator. Okay the car has 120,000 miles, the radiator can't last forever so I figured this would be the end of my troubles. I was wrong, it was just the begining. I got the car back from the dealer the next day and I hopped in and started her up. She flared up to about 2000rpm (pretty normal) but then the tach fell right to 0rpm and the car died. I asked them about this and they said just let it idle a bit. So I turned the car on again and let it idle (this time it stayed on) and she seemed to work fine. So I finished the drive home to south florida.

The next day I start her up again and start driving. Then on the road, when I pushed in the clutch to begin a stop, the tach fell to 0rpm again. I restarted the car and got it home (it died three more times on the way home). I let the car rest a day and then I try it once again and now I can't even get the car to stay on it just revs up, down and turns off.

Before the car over heated (which I must admit came on without any warning), the car was working very well. I am not sure what to do at this point. I have no idea what it could be - possibly damage from the over heating or damage from the Nissan dealer ship (i have only had bad experiences with these places). Any ideas that could help me?

Thanks,

James

[NISTECH]

As a dealer tech myself it saddens me to hear that you feel you cant trust a dealer to work on your car:(

[180fan]

overheat, check for bubbles in the system. squeeze the upper rad hose after you fill up the system and let some of the coolant pop out that little bleeder screw (has a yellow sticker below it) and squeeze and keep filling till your radiator can't hold anymore. Helps to have the car on an incline.

The drop to 0, er...dunno I'd think Nistech would be better at pointing you the right way, but could be a vac leak. Was on mine. Tighten everything down, possibly the tech didn't tighten everything down when putting everything back together?

[NISTECH]

check the harness going to the dist. it may be loose or have a bad connection.