DISTRIBUTOR firing order for 1999-2002 quest is incorrect

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So i'm helping this other guy at a different site & noticed that the Haynes manual, as well as some other sites got the firing order kinda wrong :crazy:

my guess is that the publishers ASSumed that the distributor from the first generation of nissan quest~mercury villagers were the same for the 2nd generation as well... :nono:

Plus, I couldn't find any diagram on the Factory Service Manual nor owner's manual that are available here or other nissan site (as far as the wires to the distributor cap goes) :picard:

here's the autozone pic: which is the Haynes style

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this is really for the 1st generation 1993-1998 models with the 3.0L engine :mad:

so I edited a picture for them

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Last edited by ricebike on Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:01 am, edited 2 times in total.


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then i went to an infamous yahoo group once again to confirm that the firing order was incorrect for this 2nd generation of the quest ~ villager...

(they were successful in proving that the first 2 generations of this minivan had non-interference engines while every other site says otherwise)

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and ran out to take a quick picture with my old cellphone & confirmed it

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so one of the popular google search hits also got it wrong & will email him to correct their database

http://autorepair.about.com/library/fir ... o-1848.htm

ps: if anyone find this info in the FSM, please let me know what page.

Thanks in advance! :whistle:

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EM-58 of the 1999 FSM lists the firing order.

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i saw that, but it doesn't show the distributor cap spark plug wire placement

i already knew it was counter clockwise rotation and the cylinder numbers are the same between the 2 generations... as well as the 1-2-3-4-5-6

what that other member on questdriver.com and i found out that the other sites incorrectly placed the sparkplug wire orientation on the distributor cap... why i highlighted the #1 plug location.

look more closely at the #1 plug location of the 3.0L vs. the 3.3L

now google image search for the 2nd generation quest/villager (or click that link on the 2nd post) to see that they think it's the same orientation

can you find it in the FSM that includes the cap-spark plug wire orientation? :whistle:


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