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Aug 1, 2010 | 08:35 AM

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Alright! I have the new springs on and cams in, the head is back on the car BUTTTTTTTTTTT I may have messed up. When I put the new cams on they didn't go on the exact same positioning as the originals, aka the dowel pin on the end of the cam is at a 45 degree angle instead of straight up. I realized this after I bolted it to the block so I hope I didn't bend a valve.

I'm pretty sure its fine though, so I'm going to use a crecent wrench and slowly turn the cams to the position the need to be in, I need some way to keep them there because they want to spring back....

We'll see.

the valve springs push the cam around you have to hold it rotated to the right place and do the timing belt and make sure the mivec cam is rotated to the rear of the car

Aug 1, 2010 | 04:49 PM

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I made a boo boo...

I buttoned it back together and it started right up, but now it sounds like there is loose change somewhere in the valve cover/intake/throttle body area. I can't seem to pinpoint it. It's not constant, that's why its hard to trace. I rev it to 2k and let it fall back down and it will rattle for about five seconds. I don't think its the lifters, sounds more like a washer, any ideas?

Aug 1, 2010 | 05:32 PM

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After lots of searching (and after evoboi005 mentioned the MIVEC cam) it looks like the MIVEC cam needs to be primed and rotated back? I drove the car for 2 miles very gently and it ran fine, wouldn't that be enough to prime it?

How do I rotate the cam backwards? I don't reallly get it...

Thanks again for the input guys

Aug 1, 2010 | 07:40 PM

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should have primped it self in the first 10 seconds of running ...did you throw a timing over advanced code? ... if not and all the timing marks line up your prob ok

Aug 3, 2010 | 06:42 AM

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I took it apart again and bled the lifters and most of the noise went away. the intake still has a strange sound but oh well. Thanks again for the help everyone!

Aug 8, 2010 | 06:34 PM

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that doesnt sound like something you just want to "oh well"

Aug 8, 2010 | 06:49 PM

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All of your uh oh's reminded me why I haven't messed with anything that has to do with timing on my car. I'm sure I can do it but with all of what can go bad will go bad for me

Aug 8, 2010 | 07:28 PM

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Are you sure the noise isnt coming from your PCV valve? Mine makes a little rattle noise over there every now and then but goes away

Aug 9, 2010 | 08:16 PM

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Attention!!!!! The problem has been solved and you're not gonna believe it. The car obv doesn't run well without a tune right? And it only happened at idle, so any final guesses what it was? The car didn't create enough vacuum at idle and rattled the egr valve ball which resonated throughout the manifold. Tuned the car to idle smooth and problem solved!