Posted: Aug 12 2008 at 5:16pm | IP Logged

Check fuses as well.  You also may have a coil that died on you or that has a loose wire.  Sometimes coils just give up the ghost and then NO spark!

It has to be something affecting the firing of all your plugs so it can't be a plug or plug wire.  Go to the coil, check the distributor rotor (did the tip break off?)

DO you have lights and other electricl parts like radio that still operate or is the whole electrical system kaput?

Posted: Aug 21 2008 at 4:22pm | IP Logged

Justinobody22 wrote: I have a 2000 Frontier as well. It's a 5 speed, but 4wd. He moved beyond the manifold and saw that my timing belt was four teeth off, and thought he found the problem. He's a friend of mine, so he was happy to have saved me the money. He fixed the belt, and found that once it was on correctly it again wouldn't crank. He had it staring again before he took it apart, by cranking it himself. He was pissed now though that his solution had again locked it up. He got a snake camera sort of thing, went into my engine and has since found metal and some kind of shards in my pistons. The problem must have started there and passed itself slowly outward: timing belt, manifold, cat, unburned gas smell. He traced it in backward. Thanks.

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Justinobody22

Glad you signed up and posted.

I’m assuming that your's is a V-6. Was that the original belt? The belt keeps the valves in proper timing while the pistons move up and down so they don’t hit each other.

... The 3.3 V-6 belt are supposed to be replaced at a little over 100,000 miles because when they break or slip heavy damage happens to the valves, pistons, rods and crank.

Have a good one and see you later… Don S..

It would be nice if our members would add their vehicle information to their signature (similar to mine) plus add their City and State .

A member in the same town might be willing to drop by and help you with a problem. Or drink all your beer! One took my wife!... J/K