20 Most Recent 2002 Nissan Maxima - Page 2 Questions & Answers

Starter location and mounting detail — with manual transaxle


Remove or disconnect the following:

• Negative battery cable from the battery
• Air duct
• Harness protector from the harness
• Starter wiring at the starter
• Starter-to-engine bolts
• Starter from the vehicle

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If is is only smoking when you first start it up. Most likely the valve guide seals, oil is leaking into the cylinders and smoking when you start it up.

disconnect your battery cables and reconnect them and try again

you have forgotten to reinstall the connection for the tachometer!!thanks.

you can't fix it yourself. summon the people who have knowledge of such gadgets. thanks.

Do the headlights go out when turned on, or do they go out after being on a while.

Either a locksmith (preferred), or a brick works well, but then there is the cleanup afterwards.

press the red triangle button may also have to put on a turn signal as well

Clean the idle air valve with carb cleaner. Replace O2 sensors. Your upper O2 sensor is weak causing a lean fuel mixture after it is full warmed up and at low rpms. Say less than 900. You can run a scanning tool that will check your O2 sensors to see if it is bouncing voltages of about 0.5 to 5.0v several times per second to adjust fuel injector output. If that's not it it may be fuel reg, filters, fuel pump, etc. 1st question you need to ask yourself is, "am I up to date on all maintenance". This includes O2 sensors.

sounds like spline not seated in coupling recheck shaft connection into trans

Here's a link showing you your camshaft sensor locations. Where is bank 2 located for the camshaft position sensor on 2004 nissan...

Ok the 2002 Maxima 3.5 requires premium fuel 91 octane. According to the owners manual for optimum performance use 91 octane, you can use 87 octane unless you get pinging sounds. Sounds like you just need to use the proper octane. Occasionally I will run regular 87 and can really feel a loss of power. When I use 91 octane the car is a rocket ship.

Always start with basics. Check compression on each cylinder should be within 20 pounds of each other check manufacture spec.( Make sure new plugs and coils are firing) If thats all good get vacuum gauge on intake and check vacuum (18-21hg) if low check for vacuum leaks or plugged catalytic converter. If good go and fuel pressure and injectors. You have to do it systemmatically to narrow it down. Good luck.

if it started with starting fluid then you have a fuel problem not a spark problem. check fuel pressure It maybe a bad fuel pump.

Check the fuel pump fuse and swap the relay to start. After that replace the fuel filter. After that is the fuel pump.