Today I went to the local "Pick a Part" to try to find a coil and transistor and found myself a nice well kept Nissan Eighty Six and a half Pathfinder, actual manufacture date was 11/86. It had two coils that match the style of my truck and looked to be low mileage and very well maintained. Except for a badly crunched right hand side it would probably still be on the road. Everything left under the hood looked good and seemed to be Nissan Dealer maintained. I took the intake side ignition coil out and am thinking that it's reasonable to guess that if it doesn't fix my problem it will be a good indication of a bad crank/cam angle sensor. As of the last engine start (this was done yesterday, I'm waiting for better weather to replace the coil. Yup that's right I've done all this work on the curb in front of my house.) it will idle smoothly for about ten seconds at about 800 rpm and then just die. It restarts just fine then dies after about ten seconds. It does that basically all day long. Absolutely undrivable. Any ideas in case I'm all wrong?