Camshaft alignment

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Just make sure nothing seems loose, out of alignment, or even something touching. Chances are it is not anything to worry about, but without being there to hear and feel it, it's hard to say.

Let us know how it is running and if you still hear anything.

Joe

Hello and welcome back. Can you start a new question please since this one is related to the cam timing.

Hello and welcome. Fill both coolant expansion bottle with coolant. Use a Euro Blue coolant. The power steering fill with CHF 11S which is usually green hydraulic fluid. Using a floor jack, raise the front wheels up. Turn the key to position 2 and wait 5 seconds and turn off. Do this procedure 3 times to build fuel pressure. Start up the vehicle and set the heater on with the A/C compressor off and fans set to high. Turn wheel left to right full lock 20 times to get the power steering fluid flowing. Check and top off fluid.

Once fluid is to the correct level on power steering raise your RPM's to 2,500. The coolant fans should come on there own that is why it is important to turn off the A/C compressor off or they are always running. Once the fans cycle on and off twice, shut the vehicle off and let it cool down. Once cold, remove the expansion tank cap and top off the coolant and you should be good.

I see the Check Engine light came on. Scan it for codes to give us an idea as to what triggered the light.

Hello and welcome back. When you put the vehicle back together P1238 verify you properly connected the fuel injector connector to cylinder #2. If the lock tab broke then you need to replace the connector.

Now to the timing codes. I believe I may have heard some rattling sounds? If there was a rattling/ticking sound then remove the oil control valve. Place some rags around the hole and disable the fuel pump. Have some one turn the key to crank over the engine to see if oil pumps out. Normally when the valve rattles around it is because your really low on oil! If there is oil pumping out then either the solenoid is bad or you did not time your vehicle correctly?

What is a concern to me is if you are off timing the tapping sound could be the valves tapping the pistons or you could just have a bad exhaust hub on the sprocket? I hate to say this but install the cam lock tool again to align the timing and make sure the oil pump dimple aligns in between the 2 dimples on the crank sprocket.

If you went out the way for this repair for a P0014 to begin with then you may have just been low on oil or the oil control valve was just faulty? Let us know please.