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Anonymous Posted on Jan 13, 2009

Stalls out when braking quickly, worse with going down hill

95 nissan pathfinder. Starts up fine, idles fine, drives fine. I can slow down ok, but if I bring it to a stop too quickly it stalls out. It is worse going down a hill.

  • Anonymous Mar 18, 2014

    NISSAN PATHFINDER STALLS AFTER COME TO STOP

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Assuming that the vehicle is equipped with an automatic transmission, it looks like the torque converter lock-up system doesn't release as fast as it should, so if you brake hard, the converter is still locked up and your wheel brakes stall your engine (just like pressing ******* the brakes with the clutch pedal released on a manual transmission vehicle). Normally, when you brake hard, the lock-up should release and prevent the stall from happening. Might be a bad torque converter, or a bad lock up solenoid in the transmission... Before jumping to anything else, i'd try checking the fluid level in the transmission and an oil/filter change in the transmission. Lots of times one or the other can cure the problem.

  • Denis Aube Jan 13, 2009

    LOL looks like my words "hard" followed by "on" have been automatically censored LOLOL

  • Anonymous Jul 27, 2013

    I think I am having this problem as well. I just replaced the rear main seal and had to repair the crankshaft on my 01 frontier v6 3.3 VG33E. I lost a lot of transmission fluid and had to top off a lot to get back to the proper level I have a feeling I might've messed something up with the torque converter now. I've also noticed that I have a significant loss of power when I try to accelercate from a stop (feels like its slipping on first gear and then second kicks in and the whole truck jumps forward rather than a smooth start)

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That happened to me too. But I was almost out of gas. Just a thought.

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