Engine revs up and down

Tiny
MCVALENTINE
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  • 2003 NISSAN ALMERA
  • 1.6L
  • 2WD
  • MANUAL
  • 317,000 MILES
My car revs high when idling, even when driving it suddenly goes high revs and loses power, disengage gear on its own.
Tuesday, June 15th, 2021 AT 12:10 PM

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Tiny
KASEKENNY
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  • 18,907 POSTS
The fact that the vehicle shifts to neutral is odd. Does it actually pop out of gear or does it just act like it is in neutral? The fact that this is a manual transmission makes this really strange as that is a completely "manual" system. Meaning you control it and the control modules cannot physically change the gears.

So I suspect it just feels like it is in neutral or it is just popping out. This high idle issue sounds like a vacuum leak so let's start there. Here are some guides that will help with this:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/engine-idles-too-high

https://youtu.be/4ktw1X4W_-k

Please run through this material and let us know what you find and we can go from there. Thanks
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021 AT 10:22 AM

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