well some of you might be aware of the issues that i have been haveing with my $250 project truck, but incase you dont heres a thread to catch up with things.
well i got a dizzy from zanegrey, great helpful guy btw, off here and the truck will still not start so i guess its not a dizzy problem so he suggested that i pull the codes from the truck and this is what i got:
21-ign sig
23-idle switch
24-throttle valve switch
21 is kind of a no brainer cuz the thing just cranks, but are the other two only in there because the truck is just cranking and not running or am i way off base here in thinking this. thanks for any input that anyone has on this.
if you can wait till monday i can give you the exact meaning of each code. give me the complete code(p....). i work at nissan so i have access to the mechanics service manual
that is what i thought on 23, 24, and the main relay is passenger side fender right?
and when i am checking power at the coils do i check it in, back probing the connector or out at the coil wire to the dizzy? they both have power while not cranking.
tested voltage at the main relay and had 10.5v while cranking. that is a 2v drop to the main relay but it was during cranking so....
and i had 9.5v out of both coils while cranking. this got me thinking about the condition of the wires. prevoius owner said that he did the wires about 7 months before the truck quit running, but i test the resistance of the wires from the coils to the dizzy and one was 2.25kohms and the other was 5.25kohms. is this enuf of a difference to cause this thing not to run??
i also noticed that there is some adjustment when putting in the dizzzy and was wondering if that has to be all the way to one side or the other.
how do the wires look ?>>>wires look good. there not cracked or anything
and the should have an almost identical ohms test..<<possibly an internal wire failure?
check the lead coming into the dizzy ..>>>check for power?? cranking or not? that is the 4 pin connector right?
also looked at the fuseble links and they were all good.
i took up the vinyl floor covering and it was wet were the main wire harness runs from the ecu into the engine bay, water did not get to the ecu. thinking maybe a corrosion issue here?
checked power into the dizzy from the 4-pin connector and there was power there. than took the cap off and tested for power there and i had power there. also tested the resistance between the wires to the coils thru the cap and go the same result with different resistance values. i think im going to do cap, rotor,plugs and wires as a next step. this seems like the only logical step.......i think.
im getting kind of frustrated with it but i guess ill keep pressing on with it. might just break down and swap in the 350. lol :woowoo:
I had a bad rotor once,send the spark right to ground,instead of thru the cap.Look for burn marks on it,or a dark spot on the rotor,where the current was arcing thru.
Good Luck
i have thought about this as well. i was talking to the guys at work and a couple of them suggested that as well so i think that i will try it at least. $12 for a new rotor, worth a try.
i talked to my techs they would like to take a look at it, but they told me the issues with that truck were a bad ignition switch, oil in the distributor, and they wanted to know what motor do you have
this is what i got with switched power on and the dizzy connector.
upper left battery voltage
upper right 4.88v
lower left 4.91v
lower right .011v i assume that this is a ground.
here is a pic of the connector as it is listed above.
i cant find a wiring diagram with the dizzy pigtail on it to see were these wires are supposed to go. id like to test coninuity of these wires to the ECU.
oh one more semi dumb question. i had the ECU in diag mode and forgot. is the switch on or off for the engine to run?? id hate to be thinking that i havent got it if that is in the wrong postion.
here are the ICMs (ign control modules) not sure but i think that i want to replace these
but at @$140 for both of them id like to eliminate everything else. they are very rusty
and one of them is cracked. if these are like coils then this might be my problem.?.?.?
dude ,
we need to back up just a little. i know ur dizzy is good .
those pics of the icm and the coils..
the resistor pack is supposed to be on a frame mounted with the coils.
check you pm
unplug the coils and clean all that rust and crap up.
vacumn it out and wire brush down to where the coils would bolt up..
see if you can find the originall bolts the hold the coils in place ..remove them and wire brush down to bare metal..
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