Top 20 1996 Nissan Sentra Questions & Answers

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I would suspect the switch, buy one from a salvage yard and try it first.

Is fuel pump working properly ?- sounds like you may have a case of fuel starvation under certain situations. Check for pressure being within specs.

taking longer to start can be a number of things, timing is out, there is a vacume leak, or bad spark plugs or leads or coil pack, i would recommend first to look at the state of the spark plugs this can tell you a lot on how the engine is running.

idle control valve will need cleaning, also the mass air flow as well ( mas air flow cleaner only recommended) and the air temp sensor. may need cleaning or replacing, it could also be the spark plugs or leads. it could also need the egr cleaning as well, and sometimes it can be from were you get your fuel. if the garage you get your fuel from when its rain and you fill up and then have problems there could be water in the fuel as some garages don't know that ground water is getting into the tanks under ground.

are you going uphill in overdrive gear . If the speed is lower than you set the crruise control might disengage. ?

Agree with Bill's analysis. Also - fuel injector cleaner in the tank is a complete waste of time and 100% ineffective. There is only one way to clean an injector, and that requires removing the injector from the vehicle. There are no shortcuts.

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Could be crankshaft sensor.

1. Disconnect the negative battery cable with a socket wrench and relieve the fuel system pressure. Disconnect the vacuum hose and remove the intake manifold collector from the fuel pressure regulator.
2. Detach the fuel hoses from the fuel rail with a socket wrench and disconnect the fuel injector electrical connectors. Remove the fuel rail mounting bolts with a socket wrench so you can separate the fuel rail assembly from the intake manifold with the fuel injectors still attached.
3. Push on the fuel injector tail piece to separate the injector from the rail. Discard the fuel injector O-rings.
4. Lubricate the new O-rings with a small amount of clean engine oil and install the new fuel injector by reversing the removal procedure. Use a torque wrench to tighten the fuel rail mounting bolts in two stages. First, torque the bolts to between 84 and 96 inch pounds and then torque them to between 15 and 20 foot pounds

Air Con can smell if you have Air Con , Filters clog up

Here are the steps of oil change in Nissan 1)Disconnect the cable from a battery from the negative battery terminal. 2)Eliminate the items on the oil box 3)Disconnect the gasket from the valve cover 4)Clean the chum surfaces of the valve cover and the engine head 5)Put the oil filler to the point of oil whole 6)Now add oil to this filler until it is full. Jogos de carros Jogos de carros Jogos de carros grtis Jogos de Corrida de...

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On the engine/transmission joint. You will need two people to perform this test.

1996 Nissan Sentra ignition wire schematic Google Search There are lots of wiring schematics for your vehicle on the net, see the attached link

Possibly, if they are the same size (cid/litre). Most vehicles in the year would have the same sensors and such. The biggest problem with swap-outs may be things such as the oil pan and headers as they may be different because of body styling. You really can't change the engine size because the wiring harness and the PCM programming would not be correct for the new engine and reprogramming, while possible, is costly.

Check that switch which should be depressed by the brake pedal when it is up is adjusted properly and has not failed. This switch turns brake lights on EXCEPT when depressed by brake pedal.

Bad driver in ECM/PCM

Usually located inside trunk. There will be a small access panel that needs to be removed to see the switch.

That vehicle is fuel injected. No carburetor.