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by VStar650CL
Tue Mar 25, 2025 7:48 pm
Forum: R51 Engine, Driveline and Powertrain
Topic: Are there "Tuners" available to us?
Replies: 17
Views: 48527

Re: Are there "Tuners" available to us?

100% agree but I don't think anyone will know what you are talking about if you call it an "intake pipe with less restrictions in it" or a IPWLRII. Say "cold air intake" or CAI and everyone knows what you are talking about. "CAI" is still a misnomer for anything that s...
by VStar650CL
Mon Mar 24, 2025 5:49 pm
Forum: R51 Engine, Driveline and Powertrain
Topic: Are there "Tuners" available to us?
Replies: 17
Views: 48527

Re: Are there "Tuners" available to us?

RE "K&N cold air intake" How is the air in the engine bay colder than the air outside of the engine bay??? Lol, +1. It isn't, and the IAT will prove it for those who bother to look. When there is any improvement from an "in the box" CAI, it's almost always from removing rest...
by VStar650CL
Fri Mar 07, 2025 11:26 am
Forum: R51 Engine, Driveline and Powertrain
Topic: How to use FSM
Replies: 5
Views: 10838

Re: How to use FSM

Sometimes the front cats fall apart and the debris clogs the rear, but aside from that, rear cats don't cause many problems. The fronts do the bulk of the work converting CO and breaking down HC, so the rears are usually rhodium types simply there to break down NOx which the fronts are less efficien...
by VStar650CL
Wed Mar 05, 2025 1:48 pm
Forum: R51 Engine, Driveline and Powertrain
Topic: How to use FSM
Replies: 5
Views: 10838

Re: How to use FSM

You can confirm the presence of a vacuum leak with a scan, but it won't help you find it if there is one. Warm up the engine and stream the STFT for both banks. If neither is high (or only one bank) then the problem probably isn't a leak, but if both read higher than about +10% then proceed. Raise t...
by VStar650CL
Wed Mar 05, 2025 11:54 am
Forum: R51 Engine, Driveline and Powertrain
Topic: How to use FSM
Replies: 5
Views: 10838

Re: How to use FSM

The FSM steps are likely to send you on a lot of unnecessary tail-chasing. First question, do you own a good scanner? If not, you'll probably need one. Streaming parameters like short term fuel trim (STFT), MAF g/s, and cam timing will prevent you barking up a lot of wrong trees. That said, given th...
by VStar650CL
Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:41 pm
Forum: R51 General Chat
Topic: 2011 Pathfinder - it hasn't been a great experience
Replies: 10
Views: 27819

Re: 2011 Pathfinder - it hasn't been a great experience

There are two separate fuses for the radio, one ignition and one battery. The battery fuse is under the hood. On upper grade radios you'll usually get a "no audio" message if it's blown, but on base and mid grade units, the radio will work but won't remember anything. It's fuse #29 in the ...
by VStar650CL
Mon Feb 24, 2025 3:28 pm
Forum: R51 General Chat
Topic: 2011 Pathfinder - it hasn't been a great experience
Replies: 10
Views: 27819

Re: 2011 Pathfinder - it hasn't been a great experience

Hall sensors on Nissans are largely a guessing game. The ECM's are good at detecting flatlined sensors, but terrible at detecting a sensor that's working half-a$$. So when you get mystery stalling or performance issues with no engine light, they're always a prime suspect along with the MAF sensor.
by VStar650CL
Sun Feb 23, 2025 5:17 pm
Forum: R51 General Chat
Topic: 2011 Pathfinder - it hasn't been a great experience
Replies: 10
Views: 27819

Re: 2011 Pathfinder - it hasn't been a great experience

That sounds very much like a crank sensor that's misbehaving with temperature.
by VStar650CL
Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:09 pm
Forum: R51 General Chat
Topic: 2011 Pathfinder - it hasn't been a great experience
Replies: 10
Views: 27819

Re: 2011 Pathfinder - it hasn't been a great experience

Actually, the biggest cause of "duh" stalls on just about everything Nissan is cam or crank sensors (most often the latter). You can eliminate or implicate the fuel pump very easily by spraying Brakleen or Gumout down the barrel past the air filter. If that starts it then the problem is fu...
by VStar650CL
Tue Feb 18, 2025 1:56 pm
Forum: R51 Electrical
Topic: Rear Aux. power outlet
Replies: 2
Views: 2199

Re: Rear Aux. power outlet

According to the FSM the cargo outlet and lower front outlet are battery, not ignition. The upper front and console outlets are ignition. See PWO-4 here:
https://www.nicoclub.com/service-manual ... %2FPWO.pdf
by VStar650CL
Sat Feb 08, 2025 8:08 pm
Forum: R52 Electrical
Topic: 2019 right low beam headlight
Replies: 4
Views: 22631

Re: 2019 right low beam headlight

You're most welcome, glad to help. Happy motoring!
by VStar650CL
Sat Feb 08, 2025 2:41 pm
Forum: R51 Electrical
Topic: Heater fan won't turn off
Replies: 5
Views: 15303

Re: Heater fan won't turn off

Good work!
by VStar650CL
Sat Feb 08, 2025 2:39 pm
Forum: R52 Electrical
Topic: 2019 right low beam headlight
Replies: 4
Views: 22631

Re: 2019 right low beam headlight

The '19's still had regular fuses located in the IPDM (mounted upside down at the back of the underhood Fuse & Relay Box, which is located in front of the driver's side strut tower). H9 means you must have changed the high beam bulb, low beams are pretty much always H11's if you have halogen hea...
by VStar650CL
Sun Feb 02, 2025 4:17 pm
Forum: Nissan Transmission FAIL
Topic: HELP!! Used valve body/tcm install..now no throttle response
Replies: 4
Views: 37747

Re: HELP!! Used valve body/tcm install..now no throttle response

Since the truck will start it means the TCM is alive, on R51's the PNP Relay for the starter is driven by it. If you don't have a lit MIL, it also means the TCM is communicating, because you'd have U1000's all over the place if the TCM was incommunicado. If you had a genuine milkshake and not just p...
by VStar650CL
Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:26 am
Forum: R51 Electrical
Topic: Heater fan won't turn off
Replies: 5
Views: 15303

Re: Heater fan won't turn off

Yep. Easy job on an R51.
:D

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