Alright fellas I need sum friendly advice here. I'm looking into purchasing a 98 max se 5spd 91k on odo for $4200. Problem is it needs new brakes and rotors and a clutch sum what soon cause its very spongy and it will need an alignment. Another thing is there’s this HORRIBLE loud constant whining noise from start up from the engine. Its just whines like hell while sitting idling and also while driving. For sum reason there is sum kind of power lose because when I just hit it off the line it got up but not like a normal max would pull off hard. An this whining just continues throughout driving. High or low rpms its jus there, though as the rpms increase so does the whining sound. I'm thinking it could be the timing belt to tight or the belt or cam tenstioner needs to be replaced. Would any of these things do it? Any help would be greatly appreciated here on this.

 

Bad throwout bearing, Input shaft.

Need to pop the hood and start listening to where its coming from.

 

I did, its really hard to tell, my point of comming on here looking for suggestions.

 

I think this is a similar thread. I'm experienceing a similar problem, althought the whine seems to go away after the car warms up.

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....=1#post5247981

 

No we took it for a test drive for a goot 20-30 mins car was fully warmed up an all. and it idled hard jus alittle above 1000 rpm.. like 2 or 3cm.