Originally Posted by
Dougal
I was suspicious of the MAF in my nissan shopping basket, so I was able to find a FSM on the net which detailed the simple tests to check for correct operation.
It was as simple as sticking a multimeter on the correct wire (there are 5, it's obvious when you've got the wrong one), read the volts at warm idle and again at 2000rpm with no load.
To get a good voltage reading without stripping the wires, I just poke a pin into the connector alongside the wire, hook my multimeter jumper wires onto it.
In my case the values came out perfect. One of the reading was supposed to be in the range 0.7-1.1 volts, it was 0.9 volts. The other was also smack in the middle of the intended range.
Easy to check and worth doing if you can find the reference figures.