Hey guys, well....the car started cranking over a hair slower about a week ago....like the battery was getting weak. Ran fine though in all regards (idle, normal driving, WOT) . I drive this car hard quite often, but never abusive....lets say I know how the car drives at WOT like the back of my hand. ( I love this car )
Two days ago, VCT codes 0012, 0022, and 0345....along with sudden random rough idling. I thought I got a bad tank of gas as I had just filled up. But WOT power was still fine and normal driving just fine. Then yesterday the issue was happening at every stop light.
So last night I popped the valve covers off expecting clogged VCTs..... inspection revealed great looking VCT solenoids. But after reading a TON of threads on the subject this fine morning.....many folks said go to the basics and check your oil pressure at idle @ op temp (remember the VCT work off oil pressure) . Also, they say, pop a cam cap off just for giggles.....well giggle I did not. This 3v is fucked sideways.
Guess I don't need to check the oil pressure.
My question is......what should I do? New heads? Longblock? The car has 185k miles on it and was running STRONG. Very strong for a CMDP, off road dp, and a VMP tune.
Two days ago, VCT codes 0012, 0022, and 0345....along with sudden random rough idling. I thought I got a bad tank of gas as I had just filled up. But WOT power was still fine and normal driving just fine. Then yesterday the issue was happening at every stop light.
So last night I popped the valve covers off expecting clogged VCTs..... inspection revealed great looking VCT solenoids. But after reading a TON of threads on the subject this fine morning.....many folks said go to the basics and check your oil pressure at idle @ op temp (remember the VCT work off oil pressure) . Also, they say, pop a cam cap off just for giggles.....well giggle I did not. This 3v is fucked sideways.
Guess I don't need to check the oil pressure.
My question is......what should I do? New heads? Longblock? The car has 185k miles on it and was running STRONG. Very strong for a CMDP, off road dp, and a VMP tune.
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