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Have a 89 nissan d21 truck 4 cyl 4wd. 203k miles on it. while driving it suddenly started misfiring. now it runs rough, will kill without pushing the gas pedal (if you push down on the pedal too much and too fast, it will kill) until it warms up- then it idles rough. Loss of power. kind of sputtery until you get it revved up enough. Sometimes when giving it some gas it backfires somewhere under the hood. I appreciate any help given!

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Try replacing your PVC valve or EGR valve also check for vaccumm leaks

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SOURCE: 1998 Nissan Maxima

You may have a problem with the check valve in the fuel pump, if this valve is defective the gas drains back to the fuel tank and causes long crank times, you can test this by hooking up a fuel pressure guage at the fuel injector fuel supply line on the top of the engine, run the engine for a moment and quickly record the pressure when you shut down, that pressure reading should not drop more than 5 PSI overnight, if the check valve is bad the pressure will most likely start to drop right away, but do the over night test anyway. If this is the problem you will need to replace the fuel pump in the gas tank.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Mar 10, 2009

SOURCE: 1999 Nissan Maxima #5 cyl. misfire

you need to replace the coil pack on cyl 5 . it wont happen noticeable in neutral because their is no load on the motor.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Mar 20, 2009

SOURCE: `91 Nissan D21 4 cyl MT Pickup won't idle when cold

sounds like the clutch isnt engaging properly in the situations you described. may need to check fluid levels if there ok. then may need to get serviced or checked at least

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Colin Stickland

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  • Posted on Oct 24, 2009

SOURCE: Losing Power when driving Answer While driving my

this sounds like a fuel pump problem,but i cant advise without stripping the sender unit and haveing a play so to speak

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steve morris

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  • Posted on Feb 06, 2010

SOURCE: Nissan d21 not staying started

it sounds like gas starvation or if deisel it could be air in the system, either gas or deisel there could be a possible pump problem, if gas it could be ignition timing is out,

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