Hi, Jonathan signing in, pick up my 06 pathfinder tomorrow, trading up after many years with frontera/trooper 4x4
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Hi, Jonathan signing in, pick up my 06 pathfinder tomorrow, trading up after many years with frontera/trooper 4x4
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Welcome Jonathan, you'll find the Pathy is like a limo compared with the old Frontera and it's just as capable. Good choice. :rockon
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Thanks for the welcome, I had two 3.1 troopers after the frontera and greatly enjoyed the olde worlde autotechnology of mech Bosch fuel injection and indirect injection diesel engines that would happily run on any grade of used chipfat...
Chipfat and even biodiesel are nonos for these engines, I understand. I would also like to learn what the difference between the navara engine and trans and the pathfinder engine and trans are, I have read that the '05 navaras had engines that self destructed but that the pathfinder did not have any of those problems and anyway the nav only had the problem in the '05 model year, mine is a '06 pathfinder... That has just had a new dual mass flywheel and clutch - similar problems on 3.0 troopers by the way, the solution is to either weld up the flywheel or retrofit a 3.1 flywheel and clutch...
These modern common rail electronic fuel inj engines are a whole new world to me, much previous experience building old cars, I now intend to get myself the PC tools to get to grips with OBD II electronics. Anyone any suggestions?
I have a severe dislike of having to pay someone to do a simple job that, with the right equipment and knowledge I can do of myself...
Anyone got any suggestions about kit, I have been Looking at the dynoscan stuff with the intention of getting the Nissan extended software and running it through a PC...
Chipfat and even biodiesel are nonos for these engines, I understand. I would also like to learn what the difference between the navara engine and trans and the pathfinder engine and trans are, I have read that the '05 navaras had engines that self destructed but that the pathfinder did not have any of those problems and anyway the nav only had the problem in the '05 model year, mine is a '06 pathfinder... That has just had a new dual mass flywheel and clutch - similar problems on 3.0 troopers by the way, the solution is to either weld up the flywheel or retrofit a 3.1 flywheel and clutch...
These modern common rail electronic fuel inj engines are a whole new world to me, much previous experience building old cars, I now intend to get myself the PC tools to get to grips with OBD II electronics. Anyone any suggestions?
I have a severe dislike of having to pay someone to do a simple job that, with the right equipment and knowledge I can do of myself...
Anyone got any suggestions about kit, I have been Looking at the dynoscan stuff with the intention of getting the Nissan extended software and running it through a PC...
Hi and welcome.
You're right, common rail diesel diesel engines with their very high fuel pressures and fine tolerance components don't like chip fat.
As for diagnostics, the engines are pretty reliable and unlike many other modern engine that require computer intervention at the slightest hiccup, you can do a self diagnostic and system reset by following the instructions that you will find on here after doing little search.
I also have a little bit of software on my Galaxy s2 that allows me to connect to a bluetooth dongle plugged into my diag port and read all the engine parameters.
The software is called OBD Torque and the dongles are freely available on ebay. Total cost about 20 quid.
You're right, common rail diesel diesel engines with their very high fuel pressures and fine tolerance components don't like chip fat.
As for diagnostics, the engines are pretty reliable and unlike many other modern engine that require computer intervention at the slightest hiccup, you can do a self diagnostic and system reset by following the instructions that you will find on here after doing little search.
I also have a little bit of software on my Galaxy s2 that allows me to connect to a bluetooth dongle plugged into my diag port and read all the engine parameters.
The software is called OBD Torque and the dongles are freely available on ebay. Total cost about 20 quid.
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Thanks, I will read and learn, much to get up to speed with about this new dangled technology...
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