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get under hood and rev your motor manually.......till you hit around 2000 rpms than while keeping motor reved adjust the cap....now if you are too advanced on your cap youll hear a popping missing noise.....back off the cap counter clockwise till the engine runs smooth....if you retard the cap too much the engine will run with a hesitation....that's the closest youll get other wise youll nweed to hook it up to the computer at the Nissan dealer and theyll chargre the hell out of you
***See what engine code you have. If it is a Maxima SE (DOHC)(VE30DE engine code) you will have a timing chain instead of belt and probably no distributor. The GXE (SOHC) has the VG30 engine which has the belt...
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