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1999 nissan frontier is idling rough the truck shakes but shaking stops when the air is turned on. changed oil, spark plugs, spark plug wires and distributor cap.

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  • wcarey25 May 23, 2009

    I have a 2005 frontier SE 4X4 and after the truck warms up the idle gets very rough, I can watch the oil pressure gauge drop from in the middle to almost the low mark. The truck seems to run fine. Gas mileage is good and no codes.

  • Marvin
    Marvin May 11, 2010

    you need to change the engine mounts.

  • Anonymous Mar 18, 2014

    ENGINE CODE p003 RANDOM MISFIRE AFTER TIMING CHAIN CHANGE... VALVE COVER CHANGE... DISTRIBUTOR CHANGE... NOW MY TRUCK ISN'T RUNNING... NO POWER... ENGINE STARTS... MANUAL SHIFT

  • Anonymous Mar 30, 2014

    Truck was running fine. Stopped to fill it up with gas. Engine turns over but won't start. When the engine is cranking, the distributor rotor isn't turning.

  • Anonymous Mar 30, 2014

    Truck was running fine. I shut off and it wouldn't start. I loosened the distributor cap to check the rotor. The distributor rotor isn't spinning when the engine is turned over.

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This can be your Idle control valve, when you turn the air on it puts the engine under load and your computer will increase the idle automatically to prevent the engine from cutting out.
When you are standing still and the car is shaking, by touching the accelerator very softly does the shaking stop? If so check the idle control valve.
I hope this will help.
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Sam

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