I am trying to debug a non starting 1995 Nissan Maxim SE. It appears that there is no signal being sent to the coils and the Haynes Manual has led me to the Ignition Circuit Condensor. I checked the resistance on this device it it appears to be infinite. The manual says it should be 1M ohm or greater. Infinite is certainly greater but I am not sure if this is appropriate or could be the cause of my no control signal to fire the coils. Anybody know?

 

When you first hit it with the meter, if should read some high resistance and then it may rise up to an open.

Mine does.

Do the wires to the condensor check good?

FYI, it's a ~$10 part from nissan

 

When I hit it with the meter there is no response. The meter can read up to infinite ohms with the last marking at 2M ohms...so I would think I would see a bit of movement if there was something there. The connector also checked out OK...hot and ground.

 

check the ground on the circuit. the condenser/capacitor works by complete the ground when the engine is started.

 

i had a similar problem with my max a little while back. and i too came to have a look at the secondary spark condensor. when i put a ohm meter on it, it came up as infinte. so thats not a problem. check your crank sensors mainly the one on the trans, then on the oil pan. after that check the cam sensor. my problem come to find out was the starter going out that caused long cracking sessions.
and since i would crank it the combustion chambers would flood and so on. the newly designed starters have more power than the previous ones and it turns my engine over on the first try.

 

Ensure that you are using Ohmmeter with high range.
that can through you off very easily.