[snakebitten]

Oh… a bit far for me…

Just a jaunt brother. Just a jaunt.

I just got home from Wisconsin, as you know.

 

[Booooost2016]

Okay guys ……. I’m going to ask a question I thought I knew the answer to but now I’m 2nd guessing.

There isn’t a left and right intake phaser right? It’s the same part correct ?

(I know this is true for the exhaust because you use the l and the r marking depending on side) but the intake phasers use the same part number for both the passenger and drivers side too right?

 

[FanaticalKilla]

Okay guys ……. I’m going to ask a question I thought I knew the answer to but now I’m 2nd guessing.

There isn’t a left and right intake phaser right? It’s the same part correct ?

(I know this is true for the exhaust because you use the l and the r marking depending on side) but the intake phasers use the same part number for both the passenger and drivers side too right?

Correct, intake camshaft and exhaust camshaft have the same phaser for both sides.

You could have a leaking phaser or it’s out a couple teeth. I doubt the data will be different using Forscan vs the Autel scan tool.

 

[Booooost2016]

Correct, intake camshaft and exhaust camshaft have the same phaser for both sides.

You could have a leaking phaser or it’s out a couple teeth. I doubt the data will be different using Forscan vs the Autel scan tool.

I’m trying to get freedom racing to send a new phaser.

do you think the problem could be on even a different cam ? And some other phaser is like adjusting to save itself and pulling the exhaust out ? That’s not a thing is it?

or are we confident the problem is isolated to the exhaust cam ?

 

[FanaticalKilla]

Correct, intake camshaft and exhaust camshaft have the same phaser for both sides.

You could have a leaking phaser or it’s out a couple teeth. I doubt the data will be different using Forscan vs the Autel scan tool.

I’m trying to get freedom racing to send a new phaser.

do you think the problem could be on even a different cam ? And some other phaser is like adjusting to save itself and pulling the exhaust out ? That’s not a thing is it?

or are we confident the problem is isolated to the exhaust cam ?

PCM will adjust as it sees fit.

 

[Booooost2016]

Updaaaaaaaaaate….
Freedom racing sent another phaser out for cost, and is opening a warranty with ford, if ford agrees they freedom racing will refund my card.
They were extremely helpful so I want to give them a little shout out.
I’m probably going to start opening it up tonight because freedom racing wants their other one back. So maybe as early as tonight I’ll be able to try dropping on the cam holders.

I guess they have some techs there who watched my video and took a look at my autel data and they seem to all agree I’m looking at either bad timing, bad phaser or bad vvt solenoid.

I’m prob going to run to ford, get a couple more cam bolts and a another new vct selinoid

and this time include the oil pump that that one ford YouTube mechanic that everyone likes recommends. Get that coming from rock auto I guess.

stay tuned.

 

[Booooost2016]

We got another update boys! A Reddit user is in my exact same position right now he’s waiting for his sealant to dry and is reporting back tomorrow. What we realized. We both rolled the engine backwards at one time or another.

 

[FanaticalKilla]

We got another update boys! A Reddit user is in my exact same position right now he’s waiting for his sealant to dry and is reporting back tomorrow. What we realized. We both rolled the engine backwards at one time or another.

They like to jump just on spring tension rolling backwards

 

[Booooost2016]

They like to jump just on spring tension rolling backwards

Crap! It appears to be in time ….

 

[Booooost2016]

The plot thickens.

this stupid thing was in time, the cam holders dropped right on and when I pulled the timing set off the passenger side head. The colored links were directly on the R and dot (which is kinda a weird coincidence) (drivers side dropped on too) I suppose it’s possible the crank is off ( but forscan showed the 3 of the 4 cams happy) but it looked like it was in…. I haven’t reset the chain yet. Just pulled the passenger side apart so that I can ship the exhaust phaser back to freedom racing.

I guess I’ll pop the new phaser on, prob change this vvt solenoid again while I’m in here, and then drop the pan and change the pick up and pump and hope that this all solves it somehow.

anything else I should double check while I’m in here ?

any other ideas? I almost wonder if that cam isn’t pushing enough oil pressure to advance the phaser. How do people clean passeges of gunk , just some snake oil engine flushes ?

 

[Boatwaco]

Just a wild guess but this on the locator pin being worn might help you -

https://www.f150ecoboost.net/posts/1274564/

 

[Boatwaco]

And these may be useful old posts to review -

https://www.f150ecoboost.net/search/406723/?q=P0017&c%5BshowFilter%5D=visibleOnly&o=relevance

 

[EcoXLT]

Double check the chain tensioner is the correct one.

 

[FanaticalKilla]

Flip the actuator solenoids side to side and see if one of those is causing you grief....

 

[Booooost2016]

Flip the actuator solenoids side to side and see if one of those is causing you grief....

Do you mean swap them from one head to the other? Honestly I’m just going to put another new on this grumpy cam .

 

[Booooost2016]

Waiting on oil pump and pick up tube, do you guys know ….. can change the pick up tube with the front sealed up ( I know the oil pump needs to go in from the front)? Or should I wait to put the front on until after the pick up tube is changed

 

[FanaticalKilla]

Flip the actuator solenoids side to side and see if one of those is causing you grief....

Do you mean swap them from one head to the other? Honestly I’m just going to put another new on this grumpy cam .

Im talking the piece I said on post 15.
You can swap pick up tubes after you seal the front.

 

[Booooost2016]

Okay guys, a question.
When I dropped the front diff (I think anyways) a random hose got disconnected (I think it’s the diff vent) does this hose Attach to the obvious-ish silvery looking spot, looks like it’s kinda filled up with gunk prob need to clean it out before I can push it back on.

 

[FanaticalKilla]

Yes, that will be the diff vent and it needs to be hooked up to the hose barb.

 

[snakebitten]

I'd blow through it to confirm it vents to atmosphere, just to be sure. 😁