Misfire&super sluggish my scanner not helping

[waynegarcia13]

So i was driving and my truck started missing, i pull over and notice that the wire harness that plugs into the distributor about 6 or 7 wires are stuck behind the water pump pulley. The w\p pulley had rubbed and worn threw the insulation on 4 wires. I inspected the wires and they were not frayed bad at all, like 1 or 2 strands were separated. I wrapped the wires in electrical tape to re insulate and it ran much better, but still had a decent misfire. I let the truck set for a while, started it and it bogged, stalled, wouldn't start all that s***. I sprayed starter fluid and it cranked an ran great for a few seconds and of course died out.

I let it set over night and today i got on it with my matco pro scan scanner to check it out, the 97 HB doen't display very much info like individual cyl. misfire everything seemed ok but i was getting a cam sensor code that kept coming back on after erasing it. I believe the "cam sensor" and the crank angle sensor inside the dist. are the same thing. I do not have a 97 nissan HB reference guide to know what exactly the specs are supposed to be or alldata. The manifold absolute pressure seemed low to me as well it is like 3 inHg when off and 10inHg at idle. The dist. is less than 2 months old. I think maybe the crank angle sensor might of fried but i don't know how to test it. Thanks for anyone who can help and i will owe you one for sure if you can point to a reference guide or if you know yourself.

[seang]

I'm not sure how a cam sensor works or how sensitive it is to being directly grounded out like that, but if it is like other components, then it makes sense that a harsh flow of electricity like that would fry it. But I'm not 100% sure, I can't be, I do not know that electrical system as well as I would like to.

[waynegarcia13]

Well the cam sensor controls fuel timing in most cases. And i am pretty sure the crank angle sensor inside the dist. is the cam sensor but i am not positive. I wish i could post my scanner live data on here. I have it saved to my computer i bet i could post it up. The STFT numbers are really funny too. They start at
Bank1sen1 0.0%
bank2sen2 99.3%
bank1 0.0%

Then at 2000 rpm it goes to b1s1 1.6% but thats just when cold after it heats up b1s1 goes all the way up to 25%