'98 XE KC sputters and stalls when damp weather

Rasberry · Jun 9th, 2004, 11:49 AM

My first time to post anything anywhere. Be gentle. The problem started approx. 2 yrs ago, in the AM when it is damp. I thought fuel injector cleaner would help but it didn't. I have been surfing for any kind of info all morning as we are in the midst of floods so I'm stranded but at least not in the middle of an intersection. Won't stall at every intersection, won't stall except in rainy/humid weather-usually only in AM. if anyone knows what is going on here, can you please advise?

stealthb14 · Jun 12th, 2004, 11:15 AM

I'm going to move this to the Truck Forum. The guys over there should be able to answer your question better.

-Sam

Will · Jun 12th, 2004, 05:00 PM

Possibly a hairline crack in the distributer cap. Also maybe in the spark plug,wire, or wire boot.

sointense · Jun 12th, 2004, 06:10 PM

There is a service bulletin out for this issue. If you replace the cap with one from Nissan, it might correct the problem.

johnnyxb9 · Jun 12th, 2004, 08:32 PM

Cap would be my guess also. Might as well do a tune up while you are at it, couldn't hurt.

himilefrontier · Jun 14th, 2004, 02:40 AM

I had that problem for 70k miles. Whenever it rained, it would run on 2 cylinders or die. When it was doing it I even pulled the distributor cap to check for moisture-nothing! I finally changed out the cap and rotor with genuine Nissan parts and it fixed the problem! Best of all, they were not too expensive, only like $30 for the pair.The problem has not recurred in the last 115k miles (It has 215,000 on it), so that was the problem!