Nissan Altima: 1995 Nissan Altima stalling

I have been having the same exact problem with my 94 altima se. One day
while driving down the highway, it just lost all power so I pulled over
and then it would not go over about 2500 to 3000 RPM. It has around the
same mileage as yours. I have changed EVERYTHING! I changed the dist cap
and rotor, wires and plugs to begin and then the ECM. Then I checked every
electrical link, fuse, relay, and resistor on the car. I also checked the
computer and it did not seem to be malfunctioning nor did it have any
error codes. It still is not working and it has been about three months (
I got soo mad I left it sitting for about a montha and a half :-). I'm
ready to get it back on the road again, but can't seem to figure out the
problem. I may try changing the O2 sensor next and then the distributor. I
found this post from a guy in Hawaii on another site which stated that a
seal blew on his distributor and caused similar problems
(http://www.2carpros.com/makes/nissan/altima.htm). I checked mine and
noticed oil in mine as well and the seal was all stretched out and worn,
so I may buy a new distributor, but they are like 200 bucks.

Have you figured what the problem with yours was yet??

I am having the exact same problem with my 95 Altima. So far, I have had
the distributor and the distributor cap replaced, but with no luck. Any
suggestions? Thanks!

Hi

Are you sure it is getting a proper supply of gas? A clogged fuel filter
will do this -- usually the car randomly just drops power (it may feel like
a slight bucking). Eventually, it will just stall as the filter just doesn't
let gas through anymore. Replace it and put some injector cleaner in a full
tank of gas.

On one of my previous cars (an old Saab) I eventually found a vacuum leak
that was causing this. The hose appeared to be on the nipple but the nipple
had clean broken off and was just floating around - It looked right but was
floating around just enough to not cause the leak to be huge enough to
stall. Be sure to check all your hoses.
If you are ever fortunate enough to have the car run badly while you have a
chance to look under the hood, you can find something like this by spraying
a shot of ether around suspected areas -- oftentimes the car will run
normally for a couple of seconds, since the ether drives the air out. Just
be careful and not spray it on anything that might be arcing, if you like
your eyebrows

Hope you guys find the problem.
Remco

"95altima" <com> wrote in message
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Thank you for your suggestion.

I don't know if this helps anyone else with the same problem, but I just
got the car back from Nissan, and they said that it was definately the
distributor and, even though I have had 2 distributors in the past three
months, it would need to be replaced.
Nissan states that it is "common" for non-nissan brand electronic parts to
fail. While this seems odd to me because they said it was not an issue of
compatability, I am thinking about putting in a Nissan distributor and
hopefully this solves the problem.

Hi

Just curious if you know what went bad in that distributor?

Mechanically, there isn't that much to that assembly so the problem
must be electrical. The replacement of a new distributor after three
months is stunning to me because I've only had to replace a
distributor once (on a 232K subaru DL).

If they happened to have told you, was it a bad ignitor (ICM)?

Regards,
Remco



"95altima" <com> wrote in message news:<talkaboutautos.com>... 

Hello!

No, I will ask. Thank you.

I had the exact same problem, at the first time, the mechanic changed the
plugs, wire, and battery which I think are the real solution. At the
second time, they found that there was oil in the distributor, they
recommended to replace it which it will cost $400, so I did not do it,
aftere they cleanedd it, the car runs good, but I found there was oil
leaking under the distributor area, which I worried about. I guess the
problem still exists. Stupid Nisan desisn, I will never buy Nissan again.

I had the exact same problem, at the first time, the mechanic changed the
plugs, wire, and battery which I think are the real solution. At the
second time, they found that there was oil in the distributor, they
recommended to replace it which it will cost $400, so I did not do it,
aftere they cleanedd it, the car runs good, but I found there was oil
leaking under the distributor area, which I worried about. I guess the
problem still exists. Stupid Nisan desisn, I will never buy Nissan again.