Something fishy going on

joeink

Test Drive
Location
Indiana
I have a 05 xterra and it just started doing this yesterday. When I am driving it almost feels like the Trany slip, but only or a sec. Or maybe not getting fuel and you can feel the truck fall on itself. But only for a sec and it's gone. It did it four or five times in about an 8 mile drive. Can anyone help pinpoint my problem please!!!


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J Everett

Suspension Lift
Founding Member
Location
Houma, LA
That sounds like you make be experienceing the dreaded strawberry milkshake of death. Check your transmission fluid. If it looks like anything besides red or brownish oil, specifically if it looks milky, you are getting coolant in the transmission. The radiator has a built in transmission cooler, and on the older second gen Xterras (second gen is 05+) the solders in the trans cooler can fail, leading to coolant contamination in the ATF.

Hopefully, that is not what you are experiencing. If so, Nissan has extended the factory warranty on radiator/transmission related issues to 80,000 miles. outside of that, you are on your own for replacement radiator and transmission, if it has gone too long before you caught it and ruined the trenasmission.
 

joeink

Test Drive
Location
Indiana
Oboy!!! I hope not. but thank you I will look at that today. It has 150000 on it. I just bought it in June.


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metzican

Suspension Lift
Location
Lafaytte, la
I will add to this. If it is not the dreaded strawberry milkshake of death. Look into do the bypass so you don't run into this problem. With your mileage I would highly urgently recommend you doing the bypass and maybe even a new radiator just in case.

Besides this could it be bad gas? have you not driven it a lot, or got low on fuel, or just filled up recently?
 

joeink

Test Drive
Location
Indiana
The wife just filled it up on Saturday. We run threw it about a tank a week. I just put a new fuel sending unit in the tank back in July.


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