Starting the engine without transmission in the vehicle

2007 NISSAN PATHFINDER
218,000 MILES • 4.0L • 6 CYL • 2WD • AUTOMATIC
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How to start the engine without a transmission?
Feb 25, 2017 at 2:44 PM
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STEVE W.
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If it is in the vehicle you need to fool the computer into thinking the transmission is in park to enable the PCM and starting circuit have the engine run. It will throw a bunch of transmission codes but it should run.
Feb 25, 2017 at 8:59 PM
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