ive tried searching all over the site and the net and couldnt find anything like this sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW6PRhXA_20 its somewhere by my belts and i cant place wheather i need to tighten the belts up or loosen or what im changing the oil tomarrow but i dont think its because of old oil i changed it 1500 miles ago...

im about to sell it and move on to a 6gen

 

sounds like alternater.
could be timing chain too.

 

I have to agree on perhaps the alternator or a pully bearing as it increases in pitch as you increase the throttle, and your correct the oil change will do little to quiet it down. I would have the alternator checked or the pulleys that the belt rides on.

 

hmm ok thanks for the advice how much work will it take to replace the alternator, i also noticed the other night that the alternator gave off a spark like a flash inside i could get it to redo but that raised suspitions

 

to add to this if you take some WD-40 you could spray the bearings in there one at a time when its running to slowly eliminate which one it is.

just say in. but yeah you have a pully going out. a way to tell if the belt is too loose or tight find a spot(car turnned off) where you can push the belt and if it slacks 1/2 or so then you should be fine on how tight the belt is.

run to your local auto parts store and ask them to check it your alternator

 

ya the was the plan fr thursday, my day off, i love this car and have waited 5 years to get it, and i cant let it go like this, is it possible that the idle tensioner is going bad? causing it to wear the belt out? they were all replaced 2 years ago at 170,000 or so miles, and the tensionor is a little rusty

ps. i also can see where you would tighten it up that makes contact with the belt it wobles a wee little, anything worth looking into?

 

i know your pain man... i dunno what it is bout these white 2ks i have a funny sound coming out the same area on my max. thinking bout selling it now been having to do alot of work to it lately.

 

^^^ they jus look so dam good with a wash an wax, and i know i have made the mistake to sell my past cars like my ssei bonnie i got 500 for it so far i have someone wanting this for 2500 and i got it for 2 but its no the money at all... i feel attached ha i jus want it to run good and not need any more work til its warm ha

 

so if the bearing in the alternator is going bad, will it still charge the battery?

 

Before you start replacing tha alternator, remove the belt and spin all the pulleys by hand. It could also be the idler pulley.

http://www.courtesyparts.com/maxima-...1958_1964.html

 

ok i will, but if i have the alternator tested will it show up on a test as bad? and how difficault is it to replace an idler pulley?

 

+1 on alternator. I had the exact same noise and almost the same miles as yours I am at 186K on my 01 GLE.

Take the Alternator, AC compressor belt off and start the car and you will notice the noise goes away.

It is a bearing in the alternator that causes this noise. You alternator may still be working fine. My alternator made this noise for 3 yrs and I lived with it. It was only recently I drove an i30 and found out the noise should not be there LOL.

It should take you but 15min to get the alternator belt off and test this out.

I replaced the alternator since I could not find a shop to replace the bearing.

Good Luck.

 

Been there, done that. The idler pulley when bad makes a loud grinding sound compared to the whine of the alternator.

I have replaced both so now I know how each is different in acoustics LOL

 

I dreaded the timing chain too. However a chat with DaveB and a couple of local Nissan Techs... the timing chain issue is on the VQ35s... we VQ30DE-K folks have less HP but less problems to worry about

 

ha thanks i went to a mechanic and he checked it the alt was not pushing the battery power up on the meter but it was charging barely i have ordered a replace ment from autozone for 163 110volts should be good enough anyone have a link handy on replacing this?

 

hmm... search the 5th gen forum... i think in the last few weeks we now have the definitive bible to do your alternator. It was a thread started by Colonel... with additions by Mandyfig, Homeyclaus and myself. There are steps, pics... info on tools needed best practices... anything we came across.

Good Luck.. with the right tools it should take you about 3 hours.

 

ok so it was the alternator just replaced it i forgot to get pics of the progress but if anyone ever searches and finds this 5th gen thread about this problem it was deffinately the alternator to me 5 hours to complete in a half garage freezing my Azz off working on it

 

Well you have more courage than I had to defy the cold, my alternator went about a week ago and I had my mechanic do the dirty work as I have no garage ... Hopefully this will change soon as I just purchased a new home and it has one hell of a nice garage with enough parking in the driveway for several cars. Glad to hear all is well now for you.

 

oh dont mind that its the super charger ...lol...

 

well im back and its still a mis to me... would the battery go bad because of running on it to get home? or could the alternator be bad again?

 

A bad alternator can kill a battery over time. Especially if it's an older battery.

 

well its only a year old everstart, i cant see it being bad(sad face) but its on a charger and reading 11 the manual says once it gets to 0 the full charge light will come on saying its charged up n ready so who knows

 

also autozone(before anyone says it i know i live in a small town we dont got much as far as parts stores) the worker said the should have tested it before i picked it up? what are the odds i got a bad one outa the box?

 

It happens. I work closley with a repair shop and they get bad parts all the time. Brand new right out of the box.

 

update after the charger hit full the lights are still on... fml has anyone used any of them off of ebay? im going to try to get my money back in full for this one if posible

 

dont take it personal. ill say leave it like that it sounds like if you got a supercharge lol.