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kcram - Pickups/Wagons Host
so exhaust is forced to egr
If ok next thing to try little hard to check is to take the exhaust loose before the catalytic converter. If you do that and now the engine does not bog your exhaust is plugging up somewhere maybe bad catalytic converter.
Broke off the plastic crankshaft position sensor while trying to remove it (after getting a P0320 error code). Dakota shop manual says to pry it out using 2 screwdrivers - good luck with that! It was stuck on so hard that it wouldn't even move with vise grips and a LOT of force. It was almost as if it was welded in there. I guess that's what 11 years of heat will do. I've been accessing it from below (not from inside the wheel-well), and it doesn't allow for a lot of manipulation. Finally got it to rotate (after breaking off the mounting tang) but it still would not move outwards. Then broke the smaller end off. I then cut a notch into the side of what was left to get a pry bar on it, and force would still not get it moving away from the engine block. Then it broke again. Now I have about 1/2" left of plastic sticking out of the block that will only rotate, but not come out. I was thinking of tapping a bolt into it, and maybe pulling it out with a slide hammer. Another option would be to drill out the center enough so I could get vise grips onto it and pulling it straight out from inside the wheel well. It almost seems that the end inside the block has mushroomed into the crankcase and is too large to fit back through the hole. I don't want to have to punch it through and fish it out of the oil pan, as it is a 4x4 and the axle would have to be removed to get at the pan. Any suggestions as to how to proceed (without getting a mechanic involved)? Anyone have a similar experience?
Now, you 05 owners stay out of this... We all know where the pcv valve is on 05's, behind the oil filler... Not so on 06's (the book is wrong and only applies to 05s). I have a hose that goes out of the rear drivers side and seems to go into the back of the intake, where I can not see it or reach it.
Now most of you mechanics will probably say, "you pcv valve is right there where the hose comes off the vavle cover...." No, it is not. only a right angle hose connector (hollow, no vavle inside, nor the means to have one there) which connects to a rigid plastic vacuum tube, that goes behind the intake close to the firewall, where no one can reach it.... Or see it.
Now, am I right in thinking it's mounted back there? and if so, how do I safely get it off?
I would appreciate some advice from someone that has actually changed one of these.
between 0 and 5 volts max. While they can go squirrely and cause weird
symptoms, generally they are reliable.
Crank sensor provides timing info to the PCM for the injector system.
Cam sensor provides timing info to the PCM for ignition.
Did you measure the sensors before you changed them?
BTW..who told you that you need to reprogram the PCM after changing
the cam (or crank) sensor?????