Well it’s never performed as I believe it should. First the supposedly new spark plugs were old and had huge gaps which I’m suspecting caused the spark to blow out under boost. So new plugs fixed that. I’m still not convinced the turbo is on the up and up but we’ll have to get back to that.
Yeah we have it all apart now. Definitely changing it all. Not something I want to do again anytime soon. I don’t know the physical symptoms of the phaser but I know I can push an inch or so of slack on top of the timing chain and the phaser moves without the cam moving. I noticed the tensioner looks like it is clicked all the way out but again I’m not familiar with these parts.
Honestly I’m scared to test it. Lol not sure if it was modded or not.
Plugs came from local autozone, ngk. That’s the how to I mentioned above. Couldn’t afford the kit from edge, seem like a good company to deal with but I had to try my best to save my son some money so I made my own kit with the same oem parts. I did order their timing tools though.
Weren’t so lucky. Vvt job went together well but on start up I found that extra new noise was actually rod knock!
Guess I should’ve known when I started the Vvt job and only got about a qt or so of oil out of it. Lesson for today, rod bearings need oil.
