2ga camshaft position sensor

[DDualan]

Anyone know where I can find a guide on replacing this? The Haynes manual doesn't have the 95-96 camshaft position it only has the camshaft angle sensor

Thanks!

 

[JayB12]

Well if your timing belt/waterpump is due for replacement now would be the time to do that as well. The cam sensor is behind the intake cam gear and you have to remove it to get the sensor out. Heres the guide for the timing belt. Timing Belt VFAQ, I also know of people who can do it without removing the belt. But I can't do it and don't want to, especially if you've never done a timing belt on this car, I wouldn't risk the damage.

 

[DDualan]

I've never done timing on this car myself but it was done less then a thousand miles ago when I swapped my engine out, I can't afford to have a mechanic do it

 

[Diamond Star Werks]

Why are you even changing it?

 

[DDualan]

not getting spark on 2/3 im doing a 1g cam angle sensor swap tomorrow morning thanks for the input!!

 

[H@xtGSX]

If you are doing a 1g CAS, don't even mess with it. Pull the plug, splice the signal wires, and never look at that annoying piece of crap again. The 2ga CAS is a severe pain in the ass... I spent weeks, and a lot of money trying to figure out why they are so tempermental before I finally gave up and just put a 1g CAS in. I haven't had many problems, except the common p0300 code crap, with it at all.

 

[Diamond Star Werks]

not getting spark on 2/3 im doing a 1g cam angle sensor swap tomorrow morning thanks for the input!!

Well your going in the wrong direction. Cam sensor has nothing to do with spark. Spark is by your crank sensor.

 

[JayB12]

Well your going in the wrong direction. Cam sensor has nothing to do with spark. Spark is by your crank sensor.

Either way, the 1g cas replaces both the cam and crank sensor for the 2g, and they are both almost the same process to replace. Hopefully it solves your problem though, as there are other reasons you may not be getting spark. See here for additional info. http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/art...7951-how-diagnose-no-start.html#post152649702

 

[miguelmcv]

2 on the Crank Sensor,

If you are swapping to a 1g CAS, then don't bother removing the sensors, just install the 1g CAS and rewire it, you can leave the sensors as they are and they will not affect anything.

If tomorrow (later on), you end up replacing something or working on the timing belt, then you can remove them.

 

[Diamond Star Werks]

Either way, the 1g cas replaces both the cam and crank sensor for the 2g, and they are both almost the same process to replace. Hopefully it solves your problem though, as there are other reasons you may not be getting spark. See here for additional info. http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/art...7951-how-diagnose-no-start.html#post152649702

Yes it does replace crank sensor but a crank sensor will never prohibit spark consistently on two specific cylinders. Gonna do the swap and end up with the same issue.

Unless in doing so he bypasses a wiring issue that was causing it. Unlikely.

 

[H@xtGSX]

No, that is exactly what the symptoms were with mine also. It would fire 1 and 4 but not the other 2. Once I replaced the 2g sensors with the 1g CAS, it fired right up.

 

[Diamond Star Werks]

I don't get how a magnetic sensor will sense only one side of trigger plate. All it does is tell when to spark not which ones to spark. But maybe I'm wrong.

 

[H@xtGSX]

Me neither, but that is exactly what mine did also. I spent a week trying to figure it out and never did. I checked the wiring, the sensors, the ECU, coils, ignitor, and anything else I could think of and they were all just fine from what I could tell. I finally got frustrated with it and stuck the 1g on it, even though I knew it'd start giving me the P0300 crap.