His neighbour has a scan tool and fault P0011 was showing along with the engine light and service engine oil warnings.
So he rings Mum (my partner)............Mum? can I borrow your car for work? Mine is running like shit?
He limps his VZ around here and steels Mum's Subi.
Symptoms of P0011
•Loss of gas mileage
•Engine stalling
•Possibly engine failure
•Engine contamination
•If the actual solenoid does fail this will cause a retardation of the intake valve operation
•Check engine light will appear
•Possibly camshaft failure due to lack of lubrication
These Alloytecs are renowned for timing chain problems.
Car has 260k's on it but is 20k's overdue for service and the oil level is well down past the low mark.
Friday morning I topped up the oil, ran the engine till the cooling fans cycled a couple of times, then turned it off, jacked up the rear, (the sump plug is on the front of the sump) and drained the oil.
It drained all day, he want's to do everything himself so he asked me not to do too much until he came home from work.
He put the plug back in, filled it with new oil and added flush then ran it I reckon for at least half an hour at 1500rpm as anything lower and it would misfire, fart, pigroot and try to stall.
By the end of this, it was running well and idled ok with a bit of a miss 'n' fart here and there.
So.....He drained the oil again, changed the filter and filled it again with new oil.
When started it wouldn't idle again was farting and pigrooting like an XU-1 with a couple of worn cam lobes.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm????????????
So............Next we pulled out the cam actuators. Suspended them in grease and wax remover and gave the fine gauzes a scrub with an old tooth brush. Soaked again, rinsed, tapped, scrubbed, rinsed tapped, scrubbed and so on until when shook, we could hear things inside rattling.
Put them back in and instant perfect idle.
This arvo he text me and said his engine warnings had turned themselves off!
Dodged a bullet?
Edited by rodomo, 18 February 2017 - 08:41 PM.