High Mileage Trucks
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Had the codes read. I got fucked with this truck. Hard. Raw and dry.
Going to sell it cut my losses. What a hard lesson to learn at a horrible time...
Going to sell it cut my losses. What a hard lesson to learn at a horrible time...
P0022 - Camshaft Position Timing - Over-Retarded Bank 2: Start searching and it's a damned rabbit hole of possible problems with some very expensive possibilities.
P0430 - Catalyst System Efficience Below Threshold Bank 2: Again, it's a rabbit hole with expensive fixes.
I just need to face the facts. I bought the lemon. No sense in continuing to poor money in to this thing.
P0430 - Catalyst System Efficience Below Threshold Bank 2: Again, it's a rabbit hole with expensive fixes.
I just need to face the facts. I bought the lemon. No sense in continuing to poor money in to this thing.
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Dude. The catalytic efficiency one is EPA garbage. It's the rear O2 sensor or the cat. All it's telling you is the exhaust is dirtier than it should be. Odds are it's just a bad o2 sensor. You have a couple of options. Replace the O2 sensor with a new one. Replace the O2 sensor with an off-road simulator that always reports the exhaust is good. Or just fuggin ignore it. If you want the light to go away the best option is replace it with the off-road cause then it doesn't matter if the O2 or the cat was bad it's going to read good.
Or just come to the realization that you bought a late model high mileage American-made truck. Put a picture of your wife and kid on the dash over the damn light and save your worrying for more important shit. I hooked a scanner up to my truck about 60,000 miles ago and pulled 23 codes. Fuck em. If something important goes out you'll know it without a stupid light. If the truck is running fine keep the fluids changed regular and you'll be OK. Screw those sensors.
That was my thinking as well. It's just the nature of the beast with high mileage trucks. If it's still going when you want it to go and stopping when you want it to stop, ignore then fuggin codes.
twireman
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Joe beat me to the punch. I was going to say pretty much the same thing he did. No sense in losing your ass if the engine isnt knocking or the tranny isnt slipping. Just drive it
Pretty much sums it up.... My Z71's dash looked like a fuggin Xmas tree all lit up.... None of it affected the running of it, once you get used too it you don't even notice lmao....
Check engine light came on in my truck a couple weeks ago, took it to the shop and they replaced a vacuum line and reset the light. Just came back on the other day but its running fine, fugg it.
I'm about to end this experiment and consider it a valuable learning experience. Given the situation I found myself in back in November, and how it subsequently worked itself out, I'd do it again. However I'm driving entirely too much for a 12 year old truck with 145K miles and a need for over $1K in repairs.
I have a meeting in Columbus tomorrow, then I have 5 trucks to check out. With any luck, I'll rid myself of the constant fear of "when's this thing going to break"...
I have a meeting in Columbus tomorrow, then I have 5 trucks to check out. With any luck, I'll rid myself of the constant fear of "when's this thing going to break"...
Cam shaft phaser. Brakes front and rear. And torque converter. Want to buy it? Meet me with $5,500 cash tomorrow morning at it's yours. I'm driving 3K miles a month and need reliable transportation, not a mechanics truck...
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Those Phasers are a known issue and you basically take the motor down like a timing chain change..... My daughters boyfriend is working with that issue now, and this is the second one to go bad in a little over a year....
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Ha. You thought the M in GM stood for Motors. Nope! It means General Mechanic. They should come with a complementary 500 piece tool set.