small maintenance= big difference

I spent several hours yesterday claying my car. I first cleaned it well then step 1 in the meg's 3 step wax because it still wasnt real clean. (for future reference if your paint is as bad as mine was then the wax is hard to get off, so you might want to just clean it well and clay it) Then i clayed the car, cleaner waxed it and then used the eagle one nano wax (a little tough to get off if you arent on top of it, but great stuff). followed up by meg's detail mist. WOW!!!!! a friend of mine that drives by our house stopped to ask what I had done differently. It glows!!!!

Before i got to the outside I did some work under the hood. I was having problems with a very touchy pedal at low rpms. someone recommended that I clean the throttle body. It was pretty dirty. Easy job took maybe 15 minutes. While I had the intake system off i replaced the fuel filter. The hoses were amazingly hard to get off. Not a hard job if you don't have this problem though. The gas that came out of the filter looked black.. I have only had this car 2k miles. it has 100k on it and i dont think this filter had been replaced. it was bad. I put everything back together checked for leaks and ran the car to the car wash. WOW!!!! no touchy throttle... better acceleration.... sounds different even. More throaty sounding. And i replaced the PCV valve not sure how much effect this had but it needed changed bad too.

i read somewhere that a fresh PCV valve along with a fuel filter makes your car get it's balls back

i read somewhere that a fresh PCV valve along with a fuel filter makes your car get it's balls back



I just spent three hours outside looking, but I didn't see any balls on my car. I guess I can't find them... :)

on a side note, Claying is GREAT, but DAMN is it a pain in the ass long process.

wats pcv valve

positive crankcase vetilation. from my understanding it pulls out exhaust gases from the crankcase. its a very cheap part

Does anyone know where the PCV valve is located on an 02 maxima. i cant find it anywhere. Also anyone got a suggestion on taking off the engine cover because of the the align key screws is stripped.

I have no idea, man. I've been looking for it on my 96 for months now. heh.

It's easy to find on your 96; I'll take a pic of mine tomorrow and post it for you.

~THT

That'd be awesome, man.

Thanks.

Sorry, didn't get to it today b/c of work/school/etc. Should be able to tomorrow though, before I go to work.

~THT

yo im lookin to see if anybody can help me out on how to hook up a 1996 automatic nissan maxima im open to any advice

yo im lookin to see if anybody can help me out on how to hook up a 1996 automatic nissan maxima im open to any advice. Thanks

So because no one answered the first time to your threadjack, you felt the need to repeat it?

~THT

maybe

do u think u can answer it

Take it to a mechanic.

the tranny and the maxima are worth more than you messing it up. Splurge a little.

good job