Nissan Consult Cable

[edspaged2]

Hey all,

just wonderin if anyone has the nissan consult cable. Im having trouble starting my car and when i turn the car on, but not try and start it, the engine check light flashes on the dash as well as the the LED on the ECU. Ive tried checkin the diagnostics manually but its kinda confusing trying to distinguish what code its spitting out. I cant get the car started so i cant actually try and bring it to Kerry's or somewhere where they are likely to have the Consult.

Any help appreciated PPL!!!

[edspaged2]

No one has it?

[stevo~]

hey mate dont know of anyone who owns one but this might help http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...showtopic=86622

[edspaged2]

Thanks for your help bud. Yeah im planning to get one later down the track but i kinda needed one now. My car is having trouble starting and the engine check light is flashing. Ive tried checking the diagnostics manually but that didnt work for me. Dont know why. And i cant take it anywhere in case the engine dies on me. Only sometimes the car starts, but when it does it blows heaps of black petrol smoke, so im not too sure if it will be one of the coil packs, AFM's, the igniter or the CAS. I need a diagnostic cable to try and hopefully pinpoint it down to what it may be.

[nuffin_werks]

dont know anyone sorry with that cable, however what computer are you using ?

Have you done anything else that may effect timing , like cams , pulleys or belt change etc . sounds to me like a timing issue , if it only starts sometimes and blows lots of Black smoke when it does.

seems like there is more to the story ? why did the engine light suddenly start appearing , did you change something else on the car , or unplug something and forget to refit it .

need more info dude to help out , cause otherwise im guessing your symtom.

if you want me to have a looksee for you give me p.m

cheers

Ron

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Its still the stock comupter. The only thing that i have done was clean the AFM with brake cleaner. The car was still running after i cleaned it though. Reason why i cleaned the AFM is because sometimes when i would accelerate, there would be a slight hesitation, but if i put my foot down a bit more it would go back to normal. cleaning the AFM to see if that may have been the problem didnt help. This may have been a pre-existing problem anyway. about three weeks later thats when i started having this problem. The engine cranks but is really hard to start, and i also noticed the 'engine check light' flashing. But when it does, it blows black petrol smoke, as if its not firing on all cylinders. This was during the time when it was raining all day, so i thought water/moisture may have gotten into some places.

You can check it out if you want. Im still new to the Skyline stuff. Used to have a 180sx. I'll send you a pm nuffin_werks

[nuffin_werks]

ok , Brake clean was not a good choice for cleaning your afm mate, its a sensor that measures the amount of air rushing past it thus turning that into a voltage to send a signal to the computer to tell the engine how much air its getting.

SO , if you have damaged it by cleaning it then the signal could be wrong , thus telling the computer the wrong info, so the computer adjusts naturally and so now its prolly got the wrong info for starting and when it idles its really rich as the computer has no idea how much air its really getting.

do you have a r32 gtr or what ? cause you should have 2 x air flow meters. if its a 32 gtst only one ?

i believe this is prolly your problem and i maybe able to source a second hand one to test if thats the cause, otherwise dude you are looking anything up to $700 for new ones , im not sure tho will get back to you. I'll ask my local supplier RBNT ...... lol

cheers

Ron

[edspaged2]

Yeah its an R32 GTR. Gee wiz, there are a lot of threads on this site about how to clean the AFM, and they always use break cleaner or carby cleaner. FAAARK! well that sucks. Yeah that would be awesome if you could find a spare AFM just to test it out. If im not askin for too much, you reckon it would be right if you could possibly find a spare coil pack and igniter? just in case it aint the AFM.

Cheers Ron!

[nuffin_werks]

do you know how to get the fault code from your computer ?

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ive been trying to but it wont work. ive tried turning the screw on the ecu. doesnt work. and ive also tried bridging the two terminals on the ecu plug but still wont work.

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sent you another pm ron