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PS - If you do see higher temperatures in your offroad sojourns, the right answer is to get a later model "safe" radiator and not a bigger fan. Having the thermal masses of the engine and tranny linked together obviates a lot of thermal issues, including the tranny running too cold and wea...

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The reason it's happening is because the ECM doesn't consider the transmission temperature when deciding when and how fast to run the aux electric fan. It only looks at engine temp and A/C pressure. With the heat exchanger in the transmission cooling loop, the trans can't get much warmer than the ra...

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Parts book says 08146-6122G.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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.

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That sounds very much like a crank sensor that's misbehaving with temperature.

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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...

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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

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You're most welcome, glad to help. Happy motoring!

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Good work!

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