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christafari

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Hi All,

I am just curious to see if anyone has some advice or maybe had this happen to them in their skyline.

Last Thursday I was coming home from work "Down Webster Road onto Gympie Road" heading north the traffic was terrible so much go stop I got 2 corners from my house and the car stalled. I turned it back on and then all of the sudden it wouldn't rev it would just keep dying. The only way I could get it to move was feather the pedal very lightly and try get the revs up then clutch it out to get some momentum. It seemed like a problem I had on a old car of mine (Nissan Pulsar ET Turbo) where the AFM plug would be a little lose and it wouldn't rev and splutter.

I took the car to the mechanics the following day, they went and drove it to try and recreate the issue. They didn't find the issue but the mechanic did say the fuel filter was rather grubby and one of my fuel lines had popped out of its holder and was higher up than it should be. I picked the car up that Friday night, drove home no issues at all. I've driven it to and from work on Monday, Train station Tuesday no issue at all and today 1 week from when the issue started in the same traffic conditions it started again.

It is rather hard to explain in text but the car just lunges forward kind of like a Learner driver bunny hopping, although it seems if I turn it off for a couple of minutes then turn it back on it is fine for a while.

I really have no idea what it could be and wondering if anyone could give me any advice or if this is a known problem at all.

It is a R32, Manual, RB20DET with only a exhaust and intercooler.

Look forward to any replies and help! :)

Cheers,

Chris

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Hey Chris,

Best bet mate, if the fuel filter n lines are having issues I think it may b the fuel pump. If u rev and jumps like a learner drive. My partners car had the same issue, turned out fuel pump and regulator, best way to test, does the fuel dial drop when car is off?

Hope this helps, Imyou could spend 90$ on mobile mechanic for ecu check.

~ash

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G'day Ash,

Thanks for the quick reply.

You know what the fuel pump has been a lot louder over the last month or two. It would make the normal Vrrrm pump noise then sometimes it would be even louder as if it wasn't able to pick any fuel up and was pumping air so to speak.

As for the fuel dial dropping, if I had 3/4's of a tank and left it over night it will fall about to about 3/4's of 3/4's if you know what I mean.

Thanks very much, I really want to get this fixed. I don't want to be driving the missus Nissan Tiida all next week! :)

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Haha don't blame ya!

Yea one way to tell if it's the pump is a sort of whining noise, hard to explain. If it's getting louder yea def sounds like its trying to pump more.

Replacing the filter won't tell u a lot, my partners was clean, but u never know I guess. If the ecu can spit the error of fuel pump out the. I'd say that's your criminal.

Lemme know how ya go !

~ash

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