95' Sputter and bog, help :(

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Basically, I drove to Austin to spend Christmas with family. Car was fine, no sputter or hesitations prior to leaving. Well, about 50 miles out, the car began a very light bump in rev's while the cruise control was set. Cruise-idle was around 2700rpms. I got a little worried.. so I went out and bought some new plugs, because it's cheap and can cause many problems when bad. No such luck, and it even seems to have progressed to a worse state. Now it will bump(like a loss of power for a super extreme brief moment) rev's a little more violently and completely random across the RPM spectrum. No specifics and cannot forcibly make the car do it. Sometimes it feels sluggish when I gun it but it doesn't miss, well, noticably. Just really shows when holding a speed.

I replaced the Fuel Filter and cleaned the distributer cap and rotor up some tonight.. but there really wasn't much of anything to fix on the cap/rotor. they looked fine.

I'm pretty stumped here and I really don't have time until a month after the new year to give the car to a shop (moving in jan and all the holiday stuff going on).. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Ryan

** also a slight suggestion
I have a friend with a 98 SE.. Was thinking of checking my MAF to see if that is causing any issues.. Does a 95 and 98 MAF differ?

[myzislow]

just try cleaing the maf, you can do it with brake clean or the specific stuff from nissan (I think). it will only be temporary however.

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ah crap, it's slowly getting worse. I'm gonna clean the Maf after work tomorrow, but I took some video with my phone so maybe it could offer more help.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3443054352631432622&hl=en

I'm basically holding speed at about 35-40 mph.. and it does this the whole time, all over the RPM spectrum.

[kcndizzle]

Hey bud, looks like your check engine light is on and could be a root of your problems, pull the codes and find out what the ecu thinks is wrong.

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yeah i found a shop that is open new years day.. im tired of playing games with it.. heh. i'll post up what it turns out to be.

[RedStage]

double check the rates they are going to charge you......considering it's a holiday you might be about to get raped on the price....

[pbcstylez]

just pull the ecu codes yourself,

unplug the ecu and turn the screw in the back

directions can be found here just search

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The ECU itself is messed up.. and will be replaced shortly.. but that isn't what caused it.. Basically, long story short, got a 97' Distributor from a junkyard and car works 100% again.

thanks for the advice guys.