I know this is a bike forum but...

**wildpudding** · 27th August 2008, 14:35

Hey everyone,

Have a 1991 Nissan Presea for rainy days/moving people around. I took the airfilter off today in order to locate the oil filter (turns out it in a bitch of a place), put it back on and now the thing won't start.

The car idles a wee bit high so I turned what looked like the idle stop handle a 1/4 turn out, however I put it back to where it was after it didn't start the first time. The car did start and ran once at very low RPM before it died, giving it a bit of throttle helped it die. Much like starting a cold manual choke car with the choke off.

The engine is a 1.5L, DOHC and has a carbie (160K). Engine worked relatively normally before I fiddled with it today!

Stefan

**avgas** · 27th August 2008, 14:48

Erm you didnt do anything funny when put the oil filter on (block anything?)
also check you didnt leave the lights on while working and now the battery needs a good charge.

**wildpudding** · 27th August 2008, 15:10

Didn't take the oil filter off this time, too awkward place. Just took the air filter off, had a bit of a general prod with the carb but only wound back a handle a bit, but I put that back and still wont go, so must be something else. Battery is charged, have a proper charger to take care of that.

Mucked around just before, it will kind of start and run at low rpm before it dies if I hold the accelerator down when cranking. Found a smallish hose which originates from what looks like the transmission, can't find anything to connect it to, can't say if it wasn't already disconnected.

Cheers.