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Ok, so after much poking around and some searching on this forum, ive come to the conclusion that i need one of 3 things to get my 90 sentra running again:
-A coil
-A power transistor
-A distributer

The car is running off and on, getting me about 20 miles before just dying. No noises or backfires when its dying, it just all of a sudden wont accelerate.

I did an ohm check on the tranistor and coil and both checked out, well the coils resistance was at 1.2 (1.08 reccomended by Haynes) and i figured that was ok. So im thinking it is the distributer, can anyone tell me a way to check and see if it is that or a test?

Thanks!

SENTRASER

Resistance value continuity [1]

DISTRIBUTOR ROTOR


Resistance value continuity [1]

IGNITION COIL


Resistance value between terminals d and e 0.7 ohms [2]

IGNITION WIRE


Resistance value less than 30k ohms

[1] Between input and output terminals
[2] Approximately




CHANGE THAT COIL! once it warms up, one of the wires spreads out and causes a no-run situation I bet.

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1992 NX2000 hardtop black 188k
1989 Sentra 4WD wagon bought with 88,000, now has 90,500 and counting!

sportcoupe(turbo)

well im pretty shure thats not a distributer problem b/c if you had that the car would not start at all because that sends the sparks to the mixture chamber, and i see that that the transister cheked out ok so i would think its the coil.

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for anyone interested...it was the distributor. oil was getting into it through the back where the motor is, i took the old one apart and saw oil streaks on the spinning disk thing inside. so im guessing just enough oil would get on there to cause it to fail....

well its fixed!