1985 diesel sentra

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1985 diesel sentra

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CD17 sentra 160k miles on it.engine pics later.
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I must say, this is rather striking photography.

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Al S.

1982 Maxima diesel wagon, 2nd & 4th owner, 165k miles, rusty & burgundy/grey. Purchased 1996, SOLD 16Feb10
1983 Maxima diesel wagon, 199k miles, rusty, light yellow/light brown. SOLD 14Jul07
1981 720 SD22 (scrapped 04Sep07)
1983 Sentra CD17, 255k, bought 06Jul08, gave it away 22Jun10.
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Autox and engine pics :)

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hmph forgot i had a post here, well at 190,000 miles it started misfiring heavily even when warmed up.. one of the injectors failed.

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tips are heavily eroded

My injector pump was also leaking like a sive, luckily i found a brand spankin new one from a local packrat and got it for 200 dollars.
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Timing set at 1.00mm.

Setting the injection timing on the cd17 is an interesting endeavour, you have to take out the rear water pipe, thermostat housing, injector lines, starter wires, and other surrounding wires.



The diesel shop I had sent my injectors to bead blasted my injector housings which took off the plating so i painted them to prevent corrosion.

She runs amazingly well now but still needs the valve clearance adjusted, 3 of the valves are out of spec and 2 others have no clearance.

used the following tool:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... 0037223315
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found a really low mileage(from rebuild) rn4 on thursday, that has been sitting on a shelf for 9 years, or at least that was what was claimed by the seller, i dont believe him... There is some rust on the differential bearing from sitting for such a long time but otherwise its a nice looking transmission.

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HAHA, turns out the new trans I got IS a 5 speed, i should've saw that when i took it apart. I Installed it today and was surprised that there was an extra gear xD.
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!Score!
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Your car is SO BADASS. All you need is a nice little turbo setup and that thing will be epic.
"Man, your engine is knocking really bad..."~
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