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2010-06-17 02:25:40

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2010-06-17 04:44:42

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Originally Posted by Dan_93SER

Hahaha yeah it's supposed to be black.

I washed it, hosed out the engine bay, and dug all the pine needles out from around the trunklid and that spot in the quarterpanel by the door hinge. It's looking better already, and I think I should be able to bring the paint back with some clay, polish, and wax. The stickers on the back window came off nice and easy too, thank god.

Last night I tackled the stalling issue. I forgot what a pain in the ass swapping fuel filters is! I got the old one off and blew through it and sure enough it was clogged. Put in a new one from NAPA and then broke out the mulitmeter. BTW, I don't remember fuel filters for this car being so expensive...this one was $15! Anyway, I measured the resistance of each injector and they all read 11.4 ohms except for injector #3 which read 43 ohms! Pulled it out and swapped in one from a spare set I have laying around.

That fixed the stalling issue, so now I'm onto rod knock. At least I think it's rod knock. I thought that if you pulled the spark plug wire on the cylinder that was knocking the knocking would stop? At least that's what I read. Well, I tried that for each of the cylinders and that didn't work, so I don't know which rod it is, or if it's even rod knock at all. I'm guessing it is because it's loud as hell and gets louder and faster when you rev.

Any advice here? I'm going to pull the pans and replace all of them anyway I guess, so maybe it doesn't matter, but I hope I'm not doing all this for nothing.

Could have spun a crank bearing, and if that's the case it won't change if you unload a single rod.

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2010-06-17 04:46:07

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I've heard some nasty collapsed lifters that sound like rod knock. It can be a tricky one to listen to.

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2010-06-17 04:46:54

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Originally Posted by Cozzm0_AU

Could have spun a crank bearing, and if that's the case it won't change if you unload a single rod.

I've never in my life seen a spun crank bearing. Not saying its not possible, but generally everything else fails before the crank bearings do. lol.

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2010-06-17 05:25:51

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Hmmm...I haven't gotten the oil pans off yet. One of the cat bolts wouldn't budge, so that stopped me from getting that far.

Before I get any further I'm going to pop the VC off and see what's going on there. If it's a collapsed lifter, would it look pretty obvious?

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2010-06-17 05:26:33

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TLC!

but good deal over all.

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Not bad!

This is like the unmentioned problem. Everyone seems to know about it but no one talks about it. =]

My 4 way tire iron is a good trunk prop......my torsion bars are non-existent.

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2010-06-26 03:29:12

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Alright, so I pulled off the pans and there were no little bits of metal sitting in there, so that was a relief.

I started pushing and pulling on the rods and sure enough, #3 had enough play to rattle up and down. Looks like I'm going to be ordering some rod bearings. I didn't actually get the rod cap off. Just as I got done taking off the two rod cap nuts, oil dripped directly into my eye, so I called it a night.

Question for you guys: should I just go ahead and replace all the rod bearings while I'm in there? Or is it one of those "if it ain't broke..." things?

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2010-06-26 03:43:03

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Well, if your already down there might as well... At least you'll be able to know that you have all new ones instead of just 1

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2010-06-26 03:53:12

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The car looks like the rare blue. If that's the case add another item to the good list.

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2010-06-26 04:09:02

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Originally Posted by 92SentraSE-R

Well, if your already down there might as well... At least you'll be able to know that you have all new ones instead of just 1

Yeah, good point.

Originally Posted by Nismo_34

The car looks like the rare blue. If that's the case add another item to the good list.

I think '94 was the only year for the blue ones. This one is the common dirt brown over black.

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