NEED HELP, My Maxima is Dying
10-28-2003, 07:38 PM
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NEED HELP, My Maxima is Dying
My apologies of this has been covered, I looked and didn't see anything relevant.
I have a friend who has a 2000 Maxima SE, 5-speed and she has asked me to help her with a problem. The car dies when you coast up to a red light and let off the gas. It always starts right up again without hesitation. Of course, it doesn't do this when the AC is on because the rpms are sufficiently higher. When sitting in garage at idle, it will idle but then it will eventually slow down and die unless you keep bumping the throttle.
I can hear a slight hissing that would suggest a vacuum leak but I simply cannot find it. Using a plastic tube against my ear I confined the hissing to be just below the black fiberglass intake manifold on the drivers side, in the general vicinity of the 1/2" diameter hose that comes up from what appears to be the PCV check valve and onto the gold piping running across the top of the intake. But I simply cannot locate a leak if there is one. There are no MILs, the plugs are new, the gas is good and the car runs great. Any help would be appreciated.
I have a friend who has a 2000 Maxima SE, 5-speed and she has asked me to help her with a problem. The car dies when you coast up to a red light and let off the gas. It always starts right up again without hesitation. Of course, it doesn't do this when the AC is on because the rpms are sufficiently higher. When sitting in garage at idle, it will idle but then it will eventually slow down and die unless you keep bumping the throttle.
I can hear a slight hissing that would suggest a vacuum leak but I simply cannot find it. Using a plastic tube against my ear I confined the hissing to be just below the black fiberglass intake manifold on the drivers side, in the general vicinity of the 1/2" diameter hose that comes up from what appears to be the PCV check valve and onto the gold piping running across the top of the intake. But I simply cannot locate a leak if there is one. There are no MILs, the plugs are new, the gas is good and the car runs great. Any help would be appreciated.
10-29-2003, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by jrtexas
My apologies of this has been covered, I looked and didn't see anything relevant.
I have a friend who has a 2000 Maxima SE, 5-speed and she has asked me to help her with a problem. The car dies when you coast up to a red light and let off the gas. It always starts right up again without hesitation. Of course, it doesn't do this when the AC is on because the rpms are sufficiently higher. When sitting in garage at idle, it will idle but then it will eventually slow down and die unless you keep bumping the throttle.
I can hear a slight hissing that would suggest a vacuum leak but I simply cannot find it. Using a plastic tube against my ear I confined the hissing to be just below the black fiberglass intake manifold on the drivers side, in the general vicinity of the 1/2" diameter hose that comes up from what appears to be the PCV check valve and onto the gold piping running across the top of the intake. But I simply cannot locate a leak if there is one. There are no MILs, the plugs are new, the gas is good and the car runs great. Any help would be appreciated.
I have a friend who has a 2000 Maxima SE, 5-speed and she has asked me to help her with a problem. The car dies when you coast up to a red light and let off the gas. It always starts right up again without hesitation. Of course, it doesn't do this when the AC is on because the rpms are sufficiently higher. When sitting in garage at idle, it will idle but then it will eventually slow down and die unless you keep bumping the throttle.
I can hear a slight hissing that would suggest a vacuum leak but I simply cannot find it. Using a plastic tube against my ear I confined the hissing to be just below the black fiberglass intake manifold on the drivers side, in the general vicinity of the 1/2" diameter hose that comes up from what appears to be the PCV check valve and onto the gold piping running across the top of the intake. But I simply cannot locate a leak if there is one. There are no MILs, the plugs are new, the gas is good and the car runs great. Any help would be appreciated.
There should be three vaccum lines running to the resonator, have you checked all three of these?
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