Ivan Mis-Fires the PARTS CANNON (Neglected Nissan - Part 2)
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- čas přidán 19. 11. 2021
- After the Parts Cannon FAIL in Part 1, let's finish finding the location of the wiring fault that is causing problems with our oxygen sensor readings and the P2A03 - "Air Fuel Sensor Bank 2" code.
Lots of Bonus Footage courtesy of Nissan, as it throws a few more curve balls before it leaves the shop :)
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Very noble of the owner to go to such lengths to sell someone a solid vehicle. Also lucky of him to have found such a qualified mechanic to fix it without completely draining the pockets, as those older Nissans easily can do.
he clearly quoted in the video about using defoulers, someone got a hackedup car.
Those old Xterras are worth quite a bit, evey pre-Covid they were going up in price significantly. He'll get his money back easily.
@@ckm-mkc Not if the buyer watches this video LOL
The way that oil pissed out of the pressure sensor is almost a metaphor for what that damn truck has been doing to you throughout these videos... Never quit, don't give up ---- Ivan wins....
Great diags Ivan on a host of problems. Hopefully this guy gets his money back when he sells the vehicle. I'm sure we've all been guilty of firing the parts cannon due to something that we missed, due to lack of time, or due to a lack of tools to get to a root cause diagnosis. I know I have! You're not a machine, so don't beat yourself up. :-) A couple comments... I'm surprised that you didn't pull apart the wiring loom to look at how the short to ground was occurring. I'm assuming that there's at least one wire in there with exposed copper, and maybe more. Could be a future failure that could have be prevented with a fairly quick fix. Also, when using teflon tape, it's best to start a thread or two away from the end of the fitting to ensure that no bits of teflon break off when screwing it in and ending up floating around in the hydraulic system. This can cause pump and valve problems. I worked on self propelled personnel lifts in my early career and I remember this from my hydraulics courses. A liquid sealant is considered to be the better solution for hydraulic NPT fittings. Keep up the great work and the great vids. Been watching and smashing the thumbs up for years. :-)
Great comment, appreciate the tip about how to apply Teflon tape.
Seems like this truck has been neglected since new, and the minor faults have just built up over the years into major faults. Well done on the fixes from UK.
I concur from Scotland. Watch all of Ivan's vidz, he is some mechanic, true pro.
A squirt of Fluid Film would be a nice touch to keep the green crusties away. I'm not sure I would have taped up the harness without an actual repair of the wire because you have no idea how compromised the conductor is.
I'll guarantee my harness repair until the end of life of this vehicle 👍
@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics not that long then !
Ivan, I can't thank you enough for having the humility to show us the mistakes right along with the successes! I have learned so much from you and hopefully will avoid some of the same mistakes because you have been willing to share! Awesome channel!
"Ready" is always good to see. Great work on this one, lots going on.
Omg that truck really is the truck/car that keeps on giving
Let Eric O at South Main Auto know you have a great deal on O2 sensors this week! Great Videos, btw the pressure transducer works great! Thanks!
Another outstanding lesson in diagnosis. I really admire your persistence.
Ivan, AWESOME diagnoses brother learn something from this video as always great job and thanks for sharing.
perfect timing. just finished watching part 1 and part 2 is here. seems like that car had years of neglect
Great video Ivan, love the in depth diagnosis and repairs. Bummer there were parts required on this one, it made up for the others that didn't require parts ;-)
I feel your pain Ivan. I spent 9 days this past summer at my neighbors house working on his haunted Xterra. He blew it up, so I had to walk away.
Great learning experience. Love all the bonus videos
OMG, I am overjoyed, a part 2 with so many plot changes and bonus videos, I am like holly heck Iven is going above and beyond. Dang buddy you need a priest to perform an exorcism on that Nissan, then have him bless all you tools you used on it, and you washer your hands with holy water. then get that thing out of there. Good job Ivan and thank you for showing everything on this one. :)
Don't bother with the exorcism. Just send it back to Hell where it came from.
I am now working on a situation very similar to this now!! Awesome Ivan thanks for filming this! It’s nice to see a good DIAG.!!!
Let us know what you find!
You gotta Tell Eric O. to step up his Diag. Game. Lol your blowing him away! Haha no offense to Eric he is an amazing mechanic and entertainer!!
@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics it’s looking to be a different situation than yours after watching your whole video. I’m on a 2000 Subaru Outback Limited Sedan with a 2.5L engine. The dreaded P0420 is present with no other codes. I’m seeing that it has a wideband upstream and narrowband downstream. This is making it difficult for me to compare switch rates and to diagnose in general. Lol. The downstream is switching but very slowly and seems to hang high or low for a few seconds every few oscillations. It is a 4 cylinder with two Cats inline. Both Cats are roughly 100 degrees hotter on the back end when infrared temp. Shooting them. They seem to have at least some activity. The Wideband sensor hangs around 1.5 volts fairly steady. I saw about three fast peaks up to 5 volts during graphing on my Launch scanner. I don’t want to shoot parts obviously so I’m trying to find any other ways to narrow down my diag. Also of note the exhaust
Pipe is just about broken in half roughly 2/3 feet back from the downstream O2. It is a MAJOR break before the muffler but past the O2. Can this large of a back pressure loss cause a P0420 even being at least 2 feet downstream? I recommended the customer fix this before we go any farther. Have you ever had this experience Ivan?
@@automotivated5934 defouler on the downstream should take care of it 👍
@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics haha I pondered that idea. I’ll have to run it by the owner! You’ve had luck with them before? Thanks Ivan.
My Son owned a Nissan Xtera for a while. I spent an afternoon with him changing the transmission module. It's been sold. Happy days are here again! Thanks for Sharing!
I've got a Frontier 4WD, same model year but manual and
You are the best detective series on telly Ivan
So enjoyable as you think things out the way you do
Small suggestion to the Master
When you are showing the Scantool if you could point to the values you are talking about would help a lot if not possible it doesn’t matter
Awesome CZcams program
The people must be happy to have trustworthy and reliable mechanic in the area.👍
I agree. I work on hvac and same deal. One diagnosis, to get furnace going. But because you don’t get airflow to a bedroom is separate.
I GREATLY respect your INTEGRITY!
ACCEPTING that you prematurely fired the parts cannon. And STILL SOLVE the problem with the customer budget in mind. There's NOT that many GREAT technician like yourself. Keep up the good work! You GOT me hooked watching your video. HOPEFULLY to be as GOOD as YOU one day. 😊
This man is completely prepared, has his tools, the skills, has subscribed to alldata and whatever other tech sites, which is expensive! So, dont try this at home folks..the biggest problem is that the repair industry doesnt want us owners to have access to the technical data, without paying. You can get temporary access to much of these schematics and tech help sites..but you gotta pay first. Ivan has a big advantage..he is PREPARED! becareful folks this is harder than it looks
After spending $5,000 on repairs he should be able to now sell it for $1,500
Nah dude, these things are going for $4-$5 grand now if it's in good condition. Big demand
@@ahmadghosheh3104 I doubt I could get this car for 5 grand in my area
@@ahmadghosheh3104 Why are they in demand again? New car shortage or something else?
An acquaintance had a similar situation and after he had repaired the vehicle( had found ten obscure things wrong) the "owner" said he was a scout working for a major car manufacturer, looking for mechanics that qualified to train students to be future techs and he passed the test, at first he was really P.O.d but when the man explained the financial end of it he agreed to give it a try, you're pretty sharp one day it may happen to you, blessing to you.
Great diagnosis and fix Ivan! Thank you for walking us through the whole process. You owe the big squirrel a ride back to the farm.. hahaha.. Cheers!
Hi Aldrin,
As one of my long-time fans and most consistent contributors in the comments, I would like to invite you to participate in providing feedback on a new project that I am working on.
If interested, send me an email at ivan@pinehollowdiagnostics.com for details.
Thank you!
Ivan
@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics , email sent Ivan. Cheers!
The truck keeps on giving. Ivan, I think that should be: this truck keeps on taking! The $$$$$$s
Hi Ivan . That was a pretty squirrelly 🐿 comeback . 👍🇺🇸
Amazing video and diagnosis. I still believe the misfire on three is caused by the number three squirrel escaping. Will be a come back for sure. :-)
Lol!
A true basket-case study. Well done Ivan!
Great job...great video Ivan!!👍👍😎
Love that the bonus footage is almost half of the video
Had to make up for part 1 haha
It amazes me how many people tell u what should and shouldn’t do. Respectfully they should just ask themselves have they fixed as many difficult problems as u. And say thanks for the videos.
Why it amazes you
The only "should have done" is the wire with obviously compromised insulation should have been located and properly repaired. Unfortunately, simply taping the harness back up borders on the SMA video in which Eric says something to the effect of "... take pride in your work and don't be a dirtbag". Obviously, the action of ignoring the wire repair is totally out of the ordinary.
@@walterk1221 I'll guarantee my harness repair until the end of the life of this vehicle 👌😉
@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics for that fact, and I do believe you, I am willing to give a "👍" for your comment. I already gave the two-part series a pair of them.
Hi Bill,
As one of my long-time fans and most consistent contributors in the comments, I would like to invite you to participate in providing feedback on a new project that I am working on.
If interested, send me an email at ivan@pinehollowdiagnostics.com for details.
Thank you!
Ivan
I worked for a business division that was bought by Hitachi some years ago and management laid out all the branded materials we were supposed to use. A coworker altered his PowerPoint template for internal technical presentations from “Inspire the Next” to “Inspire the Nuts” we all enjoyed it until upper management caught on and forced him to change it. Like most corporate mottos, we all thought “Inspire the Next” was dumb but I still have a few shirts with it.
"inspire the nuts" lmao! 🤣
@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics Or, "Inspire the next ... failure" . 😁
I feel your pain Ivan, some cars are just trouble. at least it's out the door
Gotta be smarter than what your working against but you still get bit sometimes. Some vehicles just don't want to get fixed. Enjoyed the suspense Ivan.
Good work Ivan. Someone will get a good vehicle when it's sold.
Ivan, this is some great content 👍
The hits ($$$) just keep on coming.
Fixing it for somebody else that's a beautiful thing.
Yay! Can’t wait to see this one!..
Wow, ivan. That is challenging job for you!! Whooo, three bonus footages! So spoiled lol. Great job to get it all fixed! Squirrel!!!??? Wow, i wondered if that chewed anything in harness? After all, you got it licked without almost no parts required! Awesome video many thumbs up!
Thank you Josh! By the way I am working on a new project that I want to share first with my most loyal fans, and you are on the list! Email me at ivan@pinehollowdiagnostics.com if you are interested 🙂
@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics of course! Email sent :)
Well done again,you are genius
Intermittent ignition coil!!🤔🤔....awesome diagnosis!!👍😎
Nice job Ivan!
Excellent 2 part mystery movie for my Saturday. It’s a poltergeist living in that truck. Wondering if the way they designed this system using one sensor to alter fuel trims to wake up the other sensor isn’t a fast track to destroying a catalytic converter.
I hate when stuff like this happens! I feel like when this happens to me the customer feels like I'm an idiot lol
I knew you would nail it, If you can't fix it it can't be fixed LOL
Awesome vidoe, great job my friend 👍.
lol Ivan at this point he's gonna tell you to keep the car to pay the Bill , great job as always... good to know you was doing some target practice firing that parts cannon lol
Nicely done.
Great video.
It likes you so much and does want to leave!
I had a jeep compass a few weeks ago come in and the same thing with the headlight happened. Only difference was it was the drivers side and instead of burning the wiring harness it burned a hole about a light bulbs depth into the battery. Surprisingly it still started, even though that cell was completely dry....
Wow crazy! Acid damage?
@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics yes, but honestly aside from the bolts at the bottom of the battery tray being extra nasty you couldn't really tell (yet). I'm in Cleveland so the rust and corrosion had really began to take over already, I'm curious to see it in a few years. I believe it was a 2013-14, for a local wholesaler...
Good enough fix till that exposed wire forms corrosion
I would like to slice apart one of those defective coils to see why they fail. You would think that with no moving parts inside they would seldom fail. I guess the heat messes up the wire insulation enough to cause a short or broken wire?
I always wondered how they fail as well. Many moving parts last hundreds of thousands of miles yet a coil fails.
Well done.
I think the worst part is that it still needs timing chains. (That's the whining that you are hearing which sounds similar to a power steering whine). That was a fun diag though ha.
Great fix, I saw a squirrel hitchhiking south I was wondering if was your squirrel Bill N LI NY
Another enjoyable video. Which model Think Tool do you have? Thanks 😊
Top work Ivan. I bet the bill for all of this came to over a thousand bucks, the owner really needs to ask himself do I now really want to sell this truck because it may go a while now with no problems.
It sat there in Ivan's shop just breaking and breaking and breaking. The end of the video was a snapshot between failures.
Good luck with that.
@@InsideOfMyOwnMind Maybe maybe not. I do know cars can develop several faults all at once and after that there may not be any more problems for a long while, can even happen with a Toyota! I'm also making the point that while he already owns it and likely spent a fair sum fixing, would it make sense to sell when the money he spent fixing the car would represent a large proportion of the cash he could get by selling? But then again he may want rid of it before something like the transmission gives out, and who knows maybe Xterra's are a really sought after vehicle and you can get top dollar for them, but I seriously doubt that!
Unmetered air from the ripped boot will cause a lean code. Incorrectly installed air filter Or rip seal will also cause a lean code.
Jeez! Another lesson: Check for squirrels under the hood!
Ahh, nothing like the feel of oil running down your arm while you replace the oil pressure sending unit. I'm guessing you never want to see this truck again, and I don't blame you
You weren't kidding. The neglected Nissan that keeps on giving. Yeah. Giving someone a headache. lol. Great for content though. Just goes to show that sometimes, it can be the simplest things giving the head scratching problems.
On my Xterra this clip is a pain to secure. Seems like they changed plugs and messed up the harness. Basically this video addressed about 80% of the complaints Xterra owners have including the very common oil pressure sensor
Good job
I know you have another 20 minutes of video but I just wouldn't feel right unless each and every wire were thoroughly inspected.
I hope there is more to it than just a wire with the insulation rubbing through.
Nice job
Added a thumbs up for the squirrel.
yeah sometimes these things just follow you around you fix one problem then another one pops up because you fix the first problem then another one pops up after you fix a second problem thus the bonus footage. if he wasn't selling the car more needed parts could have been thrown at it. love the squirrel story, wish you could have got a video of that LOL...I recognize the dorman/nissan part hahahaha.
Squirrel jumps out of the engine bay of the truck and then runs into a garage ...
Hmmm. Wait a minute ...
The Parts Cannon is often underrated if you're dealing with inexpensive parts and haven't jumped fully into diagnostics/troubleshooting.
I thought I was the only one that got problem children that I couldn't get rid of! Seems like every one I get is like that. One thing after another! It's so bad that I won't even call the customer until I've taken at least 1 long test drive, preferably 2. The squirrel story was a riot!! HAHAHA! That's never happened to me before. What a ride that little guy went on, LOL!!
Glad you won this battle - what a tough one!!
Hi Smitty,
As one of my long-time fans and most consistent contributors in the comments, I would like to invite you to participate in providing feedback on a new project that I am working on.
If interested, send me an email at ivan@pinehollowdiagnostics.com for details.
Thank you!
Ivan
@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics - Absolutely, Ivan! I'll email you in a few seconds.
Next stop for this truck - “Exorcist”!!! 🙏
"then i take it into town and bought some lunch" i thought you meant the squirrel, LMAO
Way to hang in there 👍😎
"What I didn't know to this day is that it was the squirrel all along"
Scotty warned us not buy Nissan's built after the late '90s. Now we know why!
Now you can address the worn secondary Timing chain guides. That’s the buzz- whining noise in the engine.
Uh oh, you used teflon tape! You're gonna get it in the comments!!
Hi Jessica,
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Ivan
Teflon tape on hydraulic systems is a no no. You should always use pipe dope so the tape does not end up in the system
Loctite 545 is the best hydraulic thread sealant. Our company used it on all our hydraulic systems.
Im Not sure..but its just the low pressure crankcase. You are only gonna see pressures if the rings let blowby inside the crankcase, i doubt that Teflon tape would bother the crankshaft one bit
@@pootthatbak2578 It was literally the oil pressure sensor.
@@pootthatbak2578 And oil pressure runs all kinds of things. That teflon tape is not for hydraulic systems because it can get caught in valves and filters and such.
Man my 2012 Tundra with the 5.7 is closing in on 300,000 miles; maybe by years end I’ll have that, but any way; I have had no issues like this. Just simple maintenance. Mind boggling what you went through here.
Good work! Curious, did you take the upper intake off to get at the #1 and #3 coils? I just did a spark plug job on a VQ40DE Frontier, and didn't see much room to get the coils off, other than via the intake removal method.
Nope you can sneak them in there 😁
@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics I like to see that, 😂. On my Xterra the first time plug change took me 2 hours to take the intake off, second time 15 minutes, not so scary after doing it once
@@ahmadghosheh3104 just use NGK Iridium... They last 200k miles!
Good one
No wonder customer wants to sell that vehicle, good job!
I've run into this on Toyotas too. Cannon fired, both upstream o2s replaced, same codes for a/f equivalence and rich and lean codes. Turns out that both post o2s were shorted. Here's the difference. The car would not run cat nor o2 monitors. ( heaters passed) Your Nissan did, which I find odd...
12:17 -- Ivan is a notorious squirrel-napper.
I hate cars like this that just keep giving. Normally it's not a issue but then there's the customer that complains about $ as the price keeps going up which can start affecting your bottom line.
I appreciate there is at times a cost benefit versus needs analysis when repairing a vehicle or anything for that matter, I would have been more comfortable if you had repaired the damaged wire. you were practically there, & with the wiring diagram, the colour of the wire would have been identifiable. The short to earth has been fixed, however it could be hanging on by a few strands. So could any other wires. I feel the next person will have a bugger of a time finding the issue as there may not be a sort to earth next time, but a short to another wire in that spot. Unless of course the customer did not want you to fix that. Hopefully if there is an issue the taped up area will still be shiny and someone looks there sees it had been touched. Just my two bits.
The oil pressure and coolant temperature gauges probably have a built in plateau in their midpoints so they don't annoy the driver but as soon as conditions go out of family they will move and show their relevant faults. Similar for fuel but just a lot of damping in that case. I once had a Mazda RX-3 that had a fuel gauge that moved all over the place as you drove. So...the gauges aren't fake as you put it. They are just conditioned for pleasant driveability. I wish cars had audible warnings for oil and temp when an unusual reading exists even if they were not yet a threatening condition. That would save a lot of engines I suspect.
Yeah my 06 xterra had no cel on until I let it set for a couple months not with out starting now n then and it dumped both cats and 3 o2 sensors 1 b1 1b2 and the after cat sensors the muffler something ate the wires off it replaced all that stuff and the one plug tail at the muffler. Hasn't lite up since
Dummy gauges keep grandpa out of the shop. Imagine grandpa with a real vacuum/boost gauge on the dash.
The job that just keeps on giving! 😭
NGL I was confused by the camera angle when you were replacing that sensor. To my eyes it looked like oil was spraying out 90 degrees not just draining out and I was trying to figure out why you weren’t more concerned until you rotated the camera lol.
Great job. But there isn't a Ground on DC only positive and negative, so it would just be a Short.
Some 'guy' just shoved that harness onto the mounting post. Didn't bother to put it together the right way. I've cleaned up after quite a few others, and it seems that sometimes, they just do not care. Doing the bare minimum to get by type of people infuriate me, sometimes. Especially when I've had to pick up the slack...
This is why I don’t trust any one to fix my cars. Sure wish I could find an Ivan (or an Eric) near me.
Does all data give you all those wiring diagrams