uh so it's still here so i don't know what else can be wrong with
it i really don't want to take this thing apart to really diagnose at all
hey guys welcome back to the channel so if you've been following my build recently i've had some a
couple videos of me doing the timing belt service and all the different seals and other services
on the engine on this car so i finally got it all back together started the car up and of course it
ran for a little bit and i got some check engine lights so the first second light i got was i think
340 for a cam gear position i cleared that code and it didn't come back immediately so that was
a good sign the next code i got was like 12 39 or something for the vvti system or is it 13.49 i'll
post it right here so today what i'm going to do is i'm going to run a little bit of diagnostics on
the vvti oil squirter and see if that's the issue so that code i'm getting a lot of people blame it
on the filter down here and the lack of oil flow but since i just changed that filter to a brand
new filter i don't think that's the issue so i'm gonna go to the next thing that might be the issue
which is this guy right here so i want i'm gonna take this whole thing out it's just only one ten
millimeter that holds it there's some oil that's gonna drip so you gotta have a rag laying around
to wipe that up and then i'm going to ohm it out to check what the ohms are i'm going to see if it
flows correctly and i'm actually going to apply some 12 volts to it to see if the solenoid
actually actuates now at least give me the process of elimination to see if that's the issue
i may try to open that up make sure that filter was seated correctly when i put it in there
again but again that's gonna be another oily mess there so i'm gonna try to just diagnose
those two hopefully that's the only thing that's causing the vvti light on here but we'll see
one of the signs you could check too if you have oil in the plug to see if there's
something wrong with this because sometimes the this thing starts to leak internally
so that comes out pretty easily there so we'll go take it over to the bench and see what's going on
with it test it with a ohm meter and everything wasn't a good sign there was no oil dripping out
of there because usually this thing should have a bunch of oil in it oh man i see i see something
wrong right now i see a gasket or looks like the form in place gasket material must have sucked up
from uh when i was a former place gasket idea so maybe hopefully that's the issue but
we'll just test it since we have it out so we'll go ahead and set this to get like
seven or eight ohms or something like that we're just setting it to uh 200. just ohm it out around
8.0 7.9 so that looks right from what i've read and seen online so looks like there's ohms there
so i'm gonna go grab power supply and then hit it with 12 volts and see what if it clicks
so just i just made this thing out of a computer power supply back in the day because it's got five
volts it's got ground it's got 12 volt i installed some of these little things up here and i just use
it to test all my stuff i still have some leads here for wires if i ever need to just plug it
up to some wires too coming out of there so it's a good little thing using an old computer power
supply so i've got it hooked up i don't think it's polarity sensitive but you know we'll see
so it's it's working so that's a good sign there so the solenoids reacting to 12 volts so that's
good so the next thing i'm going to test out is internally if there's anything wrong with
it sliding back and forth so i just take a little screwdriver just kind of move
move it to see if i hear anything wrong with it
sounds fine so i'm wondering if there's that form in place gasket might have gotten stuck
inside here in between the the thing and it might have stopped it from
oscillating i'll reinstall it now and clear the code and see what happens
all right booting this baby up let's check this engine code so there we are we got code p1349 so
what i'm going to do i'm going to clear it and see if it comes back immediately it came back
immediately yesterday when i was messing with this uh so it's still here so i don't know what
else can be wrong with it i really don't want to take this thing apart to really diagnose at all
so there was a little good sign there i took the bolt out and didn't drip any oil but then
when i moved that filter just a little bit with the screwdriver
it actually started leaking so i'm hoping maybe something got lodged in there or the filter set
incorrectly for some reason and it blocked one of passages so i'm going to just go ahead and
put it back together and see if it still throws a code
so after putting all this back together i was getting a high idle i took it all apart just to
see was wrong i assumed it was a vacuum leak i saw this little rig here and i was studying the
vacuum diagram and i thought this was you know open to atmosphere but it looks like somebody
previously just rigged it with a piece of heat shrink onto here because it looks like the the
vacuum has been cut here and then it's cut on the other end so i'll show you in a second up here so
this guy right here i thought it was connected to the bladder underneath but it looks like there's
a piece of vacuum here that's hanging off of it and it looks like the same cut on the other end so
i'm assuming that's where my leak was coming from i guess before whoever did that little heat shrink
thing held enough where the vacuum didn't cause it but i suspect that was causing my high rpm
because this thing was idling at like 12 or 1300 rpm when it was warmed up so i put a new
piece of vacuum on there i'm going to reassemble this and hopefully this gets rid of that code
so i've been troubleshooting clearing the code on this i finally figured out my rpm issue i
had a leaking vacuum hose so the hose back here for that little butterfly fap was disconnected
it was a rigged hose to begin with i think the last person that messed with it cut it and then
they put a piece of shrink wrap back on there to hold it which i'm surprised it held but i didn't
know it needed to be reconnected so i found out that it was disconnected so i reconnected it with
a new piece of hose i started it up it ran it heated up fine it rpms fine idling and all that
and then all of a sudden the p1349 came back on again so i just gave up i decided to buy a new
ocd valve the oil control valve i didn't want to spend 100 bucks for the oem one just in case
it wasn't the issue so i just picked up this 20 one from amazon it's an aftermarket one they sell
these all over the place now for 20 bucks this one had the most reviews on it so i ended up just
getting it because it had the most reviews people actually bought it and used it and it worked
so i'm going to swap that in and hopefully once it heats up i solve my p1349 problem
back to the drawing board so i put this thing in i let it warm up after i reset the code and after
about 10 minutes of warming up it just went back to the same code again so i don't know what the
heck is going on i suspect now maybe that foreman plays gasket i use too much of it and
it's blocking an oil passage so i'm gonna have to take this thing apart now that's my the last thing
i wanted to do but i'm about to just take this thing the cam cap back off clean that out clean
off that old forming place gasket and hopefully that's the issue and i you know can fix this
this time so i'll do that i may take the cam apart too and just double check that everything in there
but i think it's working fine because i took the cam cap earlier off and i could spin the
ham inside with no problem so that leads me to believe that the gear and everything
when i rebuilt that is fine it might be just the oil passages over here so
i'll let this cool down take it all apart and look at it so back onto my vvti code
diagnostic so i ended up taking everything apart like i said just to get to this guy again
and check if there's any form in place gasket so i've taken everything off taking the tensioner for
the timing belt all the cam gears off now i'm just going to pop this thing off and check if
it's really that bad see if i filled up any of the holes with hormone plays gasket when i went to
ham on that so i took it off and i could see i went a little bit right there on that because
that was one of the little holes right there that it might be a little oil passage i don't
know if that one mattered or not it looks like these little oil passages along the through the
dowel pins got filled in but i don't think that's consequential because that's actually the hole for
the 10 millimeter that goes through it other than that i don't really know or really see anything
inside of here that's blocked or it looks like all the passages are good so i'm gonna just clean this
up put it back together with a little bit less full main place gasket and we'll see what happens
notice i got too much fpig in this hole and then it's full of sludge too so you may want to
kind of clean all this stuff out before you put it all back together just to make sure that it's
not sludge that's going to clog up your vvvti oil solenoid and all that and then in addition
don't go crazy on the form and place gasket like i did on here so i had to take it all apart
clean it up and i'm gonna put just enough back on there to work
so i cleaned out all the passages cleaned out all the form-and-place gasket that i
put in here i made sure i stuck a paper clip or something in there to clean out all these holes
which are all oil passages for the valve so what i discovered is i think when i blocked those two
little grooves right there it kind of blocked the flow of oil through here because that thing
actually goes all the way through and it comes out right here a little bit past the dow so
it comes out the oil comes out right here and then it also comes through across here so there
is oil flow going through and kind of passing through that so i think when i blocked that off
it probably stopped some of the oil flow or it increased the oil pressure inside the oil
control valve and everything and it must have thrown off the timing or whatever it
is in the cam gear so i'm gonna put it all back together with a lot less form and place gasket
now so my second shot at this form and place gasket i just put it right there on the edge
and i flattened it out just so that it wouldn't squeeze as much and getting those oil passages
because i want to keep those clear that clear we don't want any of that stuff getting inside
there blocking that vvti oil flow so hopefully this works and i didn't do this all for no
reason looks like i found my problem right there guys apart the vvti and i found a
piece of form in place gasket so that thing must have gotten inside and jammed the gears
so it probably wasn't hitting the correct time luckily i took that apart i was gonna forgo that
for a second but then i was like screw it i decided to take it apart luckily the o-ring
is still inside the groove so i don't have to worry about trying to stretch that back on but
i'm gonna take that out the key to it is making sure that when you got the cam gear on that it
moves 30 degrees from top dead center to the side of free play and with that little piece
in there oh [ __ ] this thing popped out of place oh i gotta stretch that anyways anyways luckily i
got it gotta put it back together now putting the gear back up together it's pretty simple it kind
of goes one way but there is a way you can [ __ ] this up right so this if you look at the gear
one side has got it doesn't go all the way to the end so make sure that it goes upside down so you
don't see that that goes inside uh it will go on either way so you got to be very careful the
easiest way to do it is make sure that you see the notches so there's a notch here and a notch down
here and then you just line those notches up and it falls in so yeah you got to make sure that's
going in that direction because if you put it the other direction it'll still work and run but
the movement won't be as smooth and you won't get your full 30 degree rotation
so finally after all this troubleshooting figured out it was that stupid gear inside here that i
put in backwards once i put it all back together put it back in this thing ran perfectly fine no
more codes no nothing everything idles and the rest of the car works properly now i've wasted
all my time troubleshooting this at least i got a new ocv valve out of it and other than that
i was able to clean out that extra form and place gasket that i put in the top of the cam cap it was
a complete waste of time on my part at least you guys know now how to diagnose some of the other
things to figure out most of the time 90 of the issues is usually this guy either failing or that
filter right here if that's clogged up as far as that 1349 code my problem was just kind of
unique to my stupidity anyways i hope i didn't really screw up my engine or anything it was
completely like the timing was way [ __ ] when i did this hey guys thanks for tuning in on this
troubleshooting of the vvti issues i've had on this car that 1349 code
obviously it was my mistake when i was rebuilding that cam gear the way i put it back together but
at least i went over all the kind of steps that you need to do as far as checking your ocv valve
checking your filter and checking anything that's clogged that didn't allow oil to go through the
cam gear but anyways thanks for tuning in if you like this video give it a thumbs up if you haven't
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