Issues with hydraulic cam (left bank, intake)

[tangcla]

Thank goodness... and thank your lucky stars, it was not anything more serious.

Yeah. You should know me - no expense spared, if I do it, I'd do it right! So if the engine was coming out, I'd be looking at an 05+ head with quad AVCS to go back in

[parso_rex]

Problem sorted - it was all the debris from the oil filter (metal mesh and plastic) that had deposited its way through the system and jammed the camshaft lobes, stopping the thing from rotating. He blasted out the oil channels under high pressure, and is confident almost all of it is out.

So $1500 later, I'm sorted - I guess I should be lucky, considering if I took it to a Subaru dealership, they'd have Buckley's chance of finding that problem and I would be at their mercy of having most of my upper engine replaced!

I think you mean it blocked the solenoid lines with crap but the effect is still the same as locking out the adjustment. The camshaft always moves otherwise the car wont

[Gambit]

Thank goodness... and thank your lucky stars, it was not anything more serious.

Yeah. You should know me - no expense spared, if I do it, I'd do it right! So if the engine was coming out, I'd be looking at an 05+ head with quad AVCS to go back in

Nice one ! sounds like my mantra

[tangcla]

I think you mean it blocked the solenoid lines with crap but the effect is still the same as locking out the adjustment. The camshaft always moves otherwise the car wont

Sorry yes you're right got the two mixed up.

[Jtek]

Glad to hear it's all sorted Clarence, just out of interest what sort of symptoms did you have? Low boost, blowing smoke?

[tangcla]

Glad to hear it's all sorted Clarence, just out of interest what sort of symptoms did you have? Low boost, blowing smoke?

It was driving fine at first, except idling like poop. It'd stall when I was doing low-speed manoeuvres.

btw - I need to show you guys what the timing issues did to the timing belt. Got massive gouges on the back of it!

[smythie]

You should take a photo of it. You've got a camera right?

[04GTLIB]

You should take a photo of it. You've got a camera right?

[bert_]

Glad to hear it's all sorted Clarence, just out of interest what sort of symptoms did you have? Low boost, blowing smoke?

It was driving fine at first, except idling like poop. It'd stall when I was doing low-speed manoeuvres.

btw - I need to show you guys what the timing issues did to the timing belt. Got massive gouges on the back of it!

my car had this issue as well. car was a 04 gt 5at. issues with it was

-rough idle and revs would drop almost to zero then come back up and drop again.
-when starting the car would hear a loud "cluck" noise when it trys to turn over.

got my mate to look into it an he said it was the cam belt that skipped a tooth (not aligned properly?) but he said once he took a look at it that wasnt the case. so he did a diagnostic on it and found that the cam had about 50 degrees compared to all the other cams. i think now he just replaced the hydraulic cam with a solid cam (non-vct?)
all up was about 300 bucks

out of curiousity does your car idle rough once in a while?

[snaza]

Had the same problem. Banjo bolt filters had broken down and stuff was stuck in the solenoids. Computer showed one cam stuck at 52% and the other was 0%. problem was diagnosed by SERGE in 10 seconds and running as new in less than an hour. I'm so happy i called him as my local mechanic would have never found this. I did leave it with subaru for the day (a few weeks ago) and they couldn't find anything.

[legacydan]

Would this errors show up if you checked it with rom raider. I'm having similar issues with mine. Subaru dealers over here are pretty useless when it comes to working on jdm imports

[kiahatsiu]

-rough idle and revs would drop almost to zero then come back up and drop again.
-when starting the car would hear a loud "cluck" noise when it trys to turn over.
?

Hmm, pretty much the issue my car is having at the moment. Though my clunk is immediately as the car starts. The rough idle is a shitter.
I am also getting "front o2 sensor" CELS.