i think my timing went out

BornSticky · Post by **BornSticky** » October 8th, 2006, 5:11 am

around august i noticed i had lost about 50 km per tank of gas if not more. then i noticed when going up a hill my valves start to tap or so i believe is the sound (almost like rocks rolled in a jar) but yeah it could be from the trip to california, it was a lot of km's at once but it ran perfect the whole way. Im not really sure on how to alter the timing any tips would help.

1992blazeredgs · Post by **1992blazeredgs** » October 8th, 2006, 9:15 am

Its hard to say what is causing yoru problems, but just to ease some of your worry, the noise you are hearing is not your valves tapping the pistons. All k serios motors are non interference. I woudl start by checking the simple things. Spark plugs, plug wires, air filter, fuel filter, distributor cap and rotor.

Nate

hgallegos915 · Post by **hgallegos915** » October 8th, 2006, 1:37 pm

Pinging most of the time is basical,ly the car is detonating, timing MAY be off. My maxima does that so i stopped driving it until i change her timing belt. Since in nissan you can compesnate by moving disty its sorta driveable but i dewcided to play it safe. Cpu in mx3 compensates for so much before it stops doing it. Could of course be ign problems. Do a tune up. When was the last time timing belt was done?

BornSticky · Post by **BornSticky** » October 9th, 2006, 3:41 am

they told me they just replaced the timing belt b4 i bought it just over a year ago but people lie. I will check the disty and clean it inside see if i can mess with it a bit to get it better