Oh no! Another kangarooing K11 thread

[drand]

Hi

I've been away from the forum for ages what with life being on the way but I've still got my 96 P 1.3 K11.

A couple of weeks ago she refused to start entirely so I had the ride of shame on the breakdown truck back home. Diagnostic flashed up crank angle sensor fault, so i rebuilt the distributor with a new cas, rotor arm, cap and new spark plugs for good measure. I took photos while it was apart and I'm 99.9% sure it went back together properly. I marked the position against the head before I took it off and lined it up again exactly when it went back on.

Hurray, she fires up! But idle is lumpy and dies after a while. If I keep blipping the throttle to earn it up it will maintain a decent idle but when driven it does the kangaroo thing, stutters, power loss etc.

I've read threads on here and it sounds like throttle body issues. At this point I'm a bit sceptical that fixing one problem would have magically caused another to appear or reveal itself, since it was fine before. However I tried some carb cleaner, running without the various tb connectors plugged in and even got the soldering iron out and followed the micra au guide. Nothing has helped, so I'm a bit at a loss.

I suppose it could still be maf/tb but I'm not really sure where to go next. Any suggestions?

Could the tb/maf or lambda have been damaged by attempting to start when it the cas was broken, or when running badly?

Is there something I might have missed when putting the distributor back together (only thing original left on there now is the coil and the housing)?

Thanks in anticipation

Dan

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[fuzzy-hair-man]

Mine behaved similarly (idle and stalling) when it had a big vacuum leak, (I'd not yet hooked up the emissions stuff and forgot to blank off where the hoses went. I didn't get to drive it though so can't say anything about kangaroos.

 

[drand]

Mine behaved similarly (idle and stalling) when it had a big vacuum leak, (I'd not yet hooked up the emissions stuff and forgot to blank off where the hoses went. I didn't get to drive it though so can't say anything about kangaroos.

Cheers fuzzy. I checked vacuum leaks and couldn't see anything obvious. Garage reckons maf, but are wary of replacing it since I've already changed the original for a second hand one and not had any improvement. There's s Nissan specialist staffed by ex-main dealer types down the road so I might see if they have any ideas.