Nissan 3 Liter Diesel Problem's

Submitted: Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 22:22
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So you have the 3.5 L engine, and you have had no problems. Frankly, your
are a "first". How many miles do you have on your car? From what I have
read, there have been several explanations for the wide spread premature
failure of these engines. Some of these have been: (1) low cetane rating
of US available diesel; (2) carbon deposit in connection with the ERG which
get into the #1 cylinder and results in a bent rod; (3) weak rods, by
design; and (4) turbo allowing oil into the cylinders causing hydrolock
resulting in bent rods.

I think you will agree that the 3.5 L engine enjoys an unusually poor
reputation. Do you have any explanation for that? If anyone else has this
engine and has not had problems, it would be nice to hear from them. Not
very scientific, but I "bet" you, with your acceptable experience, will be a
real minority
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Reply By: Truckster (Vic) - Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 22:28

Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 22:28
gotta love a stuff up
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Reply By: Teabag (Queanbeyan) - Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 22:41

Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 22:41
What the????????
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Follow Up By: Grandpa joe - Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 22:53

Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 22:53
" I I I I I ..... SAID SHARP as A BOWLING BALLLLLLLLL This kid iiiiisss " !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now that is some well informed "DRIBBLE"

LOL....... I am still gobsmacked
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Reply By: Motherhen - Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 22:46

Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 22:46
Maybe in USA their liters are different to our litres
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Follow Up By: SA_Patrol - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 00:52

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 00:52
Their Gallons are different to ours, we have 4.52 litres which equals a gallon they have about 3.5 litres to their gallon or they say liters . :-)
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Follow Up By: ross - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 22:01

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 22:01
They dont sell diesel Patrols in the US,in fact they dont sell any Japanese diesels there except in 6 ton trucks.
Goingplatinum is in oz or somewhere to the north
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Reply By: Geoff (Newcastle, NSW) - Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 22:54

Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 22:54
Mow it son, don't smoke it !!
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Reply By: disco driver - Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 23:55

Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 23:55
OMG!
I've read some unintelligible drivel on this site but this takes the cake.
WTF is he on about???
Can some one enlighten me.
I won't say "I wait with bated breath" coz it might be a long time.

Cheers

Disco
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Reply By: Muzzgit [WA] - Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 23:59

Monday, Mar 05, 2007 at 23:59
NO NO NO GEOFF, you got it all wrong! grey hair is from watching the Dockers, and baldness is from knowing that you paid for another years membership! hahahaha
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Follow Up By: fisho64 - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 00:21

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 00:21
Speaking of the Dockers
I heard that Chris Connoly caught 2 blokes climbing over the fence at a Dockers game.
He made them get back down and stay til the end of the game!!!!!!!
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Follow Up By: Muzzgit [WA] - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 23:27

Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 23:27
HAHAHA good one!

Maybe one of them was just going home to get a knife so Chris Connolly could cut Jeff Farmers throat!!!

As a paid up member since 1998 I am rather embarrassed by this little episode.
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Reply By: Bilbo - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 00:42

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 00:42
The Nissan 3.0 litre engine is measured in Japan using the Metric System of volumetric measurement.

We are geograpically very close to Japan and being very easy going people we accept the Japanese Metric System as given. On the other hand, the US Metric System is a different version of both the European Metric system AND the Japanese Metric System. Both of these systems are different in many aspects but are totally interchangebale with all of the Metric Systems in the Rest Of The World. These are known as Interchangeable Metric Systems (ROTW) - or IMSROTW for short.

The US Metric System is not directly interchangeable with either the Japanese Metric System, The European Metric System or The Rest Of The World Metric System.

The US Metric System is also known as USBMSTUS, which is an abbreviated form of " Useless, But Means Something To Us" and is about 15% out on IMSROTW. This "OUT" factor has a variation within itself when trying to convert anything. This "factor" can be plus or minus amount. The variation depends on whether the user of USBMSTUS is measuring an American Nissan Engine, an Australian Nissan Engine, a European Nissan engine or a Japanese Nissan engine or simply weighing flour for a sponge cake. As we here know, only one of these engines is really different to the others. Yes, thats' right, it's the Australian Nissan Engine isn't boys and girls, it's The Australian Nissan Engine! And why is this?

"Cos it's the only one that blows up!,,,,,,,,,,,so far,,,,,,,,

Now it seems the American Nissan Engine is now being measured by an Australian Metric System that has been brought out especially for 3.0 litre Nissan engines whereby Nissan refuse to fix the engine because it it blew up under a different metric system than the one under which it was manufactured - the Japanese Metric System.

Now add the "15%" USBMSTUS factor noted above and you get a "3.5 litre Nissan engine" that blows up in America!

Nissan wil refuse to fix these engines because they were sold as Japanese Metric Engines but the Americans have 15% added tp them to accomodate the US Gallon factor, which is also different to the rest of the worlds gallons, quarts, pints, pounds and tons and also different to the what the Rest Of The World Thinks About Dick Cheney. This results is too much oil being put into the engine when serviced, which in turn results in oil being unable to drain from the turbo fast enough to prevent oil carryover into the combustion chamber and WHAMMOOOBANNG!,,,,,,,,,,,,, and it's not Nissan's fault if the American use a different metric system to the rest of the world is it?

;)

Bilbo

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Follow Up By: Blaze - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:24

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:24
Geeze and I just thought it was a way of 3 litre Neeeesan owners trying to squeeze another 500ml out of their BOMBS LOL
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Follow Up By: Member - John (Vic) - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:16

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:16
Didn't you forget the tag line again????

Bilbo - The intellectual Nissan metric conversion bloke

Or some such similar line???

By the way, Dick who??
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Follow Up By: Member - Duncs - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:25

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:25
Bilbo,

What you have written as an explanation for pure, unadulterated and pointless drivvle allows me to draw one of two conclulsions or maybe both are correct.

1) The Chevvysan is clearly faster than any of us have realised.

2) Time goes much slower in WA.

As I have typed this into the 'puter I realise that both must be true. Otherwise there is no way that you could afford to devote so much time to the clown who started this thread.

Duncs
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Follow Up By: Bilbo - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:00

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:00
Duncs,

Time?

Being retired has a lot to do with it,,,,,,,,,,

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Follow Up By: Bilbo - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:07

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:07
John Vic,

Nah mate, that's not "Dick Who", it's "Doctor Who" yer thinking of!

I have a TARDIS, one of his older models. That's why I can spend the whole 1.5 seconds typing out the drivel above,,,,,,,,,,,,

Bilbo - "the reTARDED hobbit"
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Follow Up By: Member - Ian W (NSW) - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 19:46

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 19:46
Bilbo,

The original thread had me totally confused, now thanks to your explanation I've forgotten what it was I was confused about.

Ian
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Reply By: Member - Bucky (VIC) - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:16

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:16
No doubt about it " intelectually constipated "

Who is the joker ?

Bucky
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Follow Up By: Bilbo - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:02

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:02
Constipated? Me? Him? Who?

Joker? Him? Who? Me?

I was serious!

Bilbo - "the doubtful hobbit"
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Reply By: GUdeano - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:20

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:20
Very entertaining LOL.

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Reply By: nowimnumberone - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:31

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:31
you guys are so hard
the 3.5litre hes on bout is the size after a piston has gone through the block.
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Reply By: Member - Davoe (Nullagine) - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:38

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:38
didnt the MQ have a 3.3 or 3.5 diesal?? You would have hoped any problems in that old donk were ironed out before it made the scrapheap
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Follow Up By: Member - Duncs - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 16:46

Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 16:46
SD33.......Slow Diesel
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Reply By: Member - John (Vic) - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:46

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:46
I think he talks the same $hit that Nissan Australia does, each time they deny that there is any issue with their 3.0 litre diesel.
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Reply By: TerraFirma - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 14:35

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 14:35
WTF..??? 3.0 Litre Engine I believe and the problems outlined above sound like a wide range to me, not isolated. Yes there are plenty of people with good 3.0L Nissan engines at the moment, some with problematic engines, it's the ones with problems that are of great concern to Australian buyers. The science for the problems isn't that important , that should be Nissan's problem, re just want a suitable outcome for people with problems and a rectification of the issues going foward.
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Reply By: Flash - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 14:46

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 14:46
Geezuz
"goingplatinumcomau" has successfully written the most ridiculous rubbish I've seen in quite some time.
Well done! Outstanding!
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Reply By: Bonz (Vic) - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 18:21

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 18:21
Watch out, there are Llama's
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Reply By: Gerhardp1 - Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 18:42

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 18:42
Going Platinum has won, I'm afraid.

He laid a bet that he could get at least 15 responses to his post on this forum, even if he wrote absolute crap.

Shame on the rest of us for being unable to leave the bait alone.
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Follow Up By: Muzzgit [WA] - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 00:29

Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 00:29
NAH!!!

He's not as dumb as I smart you are!
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Reply By: Member - 'Lucy' - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:28

Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:28
Yeah! well he didn't suck me in, cos I drive a JEEP with a Llama in the passenger seat.
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Follow Up By: Member - 'Lucy' - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:40

Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:40
I know I had a 'few' coldies at the Barmera , Riverland 4WD field day on Sunday, however I didn't think I had had that many that my English comprehension skills were irreparably compremised.
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Follow Up By: Gerhardp1 - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:48

Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:48
Ah, but your spelling is permanently affected........irreparably compromised by the look of it...

:)
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Follow Up By: Member - 'Lucy' - Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 18:10

Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007 at 18:10
B u g g e r !

and I was so so carefull with irreparably.

Doh! missed by that much. (LOL)
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