From the start I have been battling warning lights of one kind or another, with the Check Engine light coming and going. Then when changing to oil a few weeks ago seemed to smooth everything out I was almost afraid to mess with it, but I just kept thinking if the oil was bad enough to mess with the Vano Solenoids they had to be pretty dirty too.
So last weekend, I picked up some new Orings, seals and decided to give them a cleaning. After removing the two solenoids I used a power supply to energize them (5VDC) then blew them out with a shop air compressor, replaced the seals and orings, and for sh%ts and giggles swapped the inlet and exhaust vano with each other.
Man, as soon as started her up I thought to myself (you never fix something that's not broken) lol. The idling was crap, but doing it gave me a different error code than I had seen before so now I knew the exhaust solenoid had been my problem all along.
My new solenoid arrived n the mail yesterday and I replaced the sticking part today, Then using my code reader I reset all of the setting which the ECU had changed just to keep the car running, and took her for a spin.
Its hard to believe the difference. All of my errors are gone, and she hit 80 as I passed my neighbor's driveway, maybe 300 feet. I was really impressed how she's running now and I can't wait to see how the gas mileage improves now.
So last weekend, I picked up some new Orings, seals and decided to give them a cleaning. After removing the two solenoids I used a power supply to energize them (5VDC) then blew them out with a shop air compressor, replaced the seals and orings, and for sh%ts and giggles swapped the inlet and exhaust vano with each other.
Man, as soon as started her up I thought to myself (you never fix something that's not broken) lol. The idling was crap, but doing it gave me a different error code than I had seen before so now I knew the exhaust solenoid had been my problem all along.
My new solenoid arrived n the mail yesterday and I replaced the sticking part today, Then using my code reader I reset all of the setting which the ECU had changed just to keep the car running, and took her for a spin.
Its hard to believe the difference. All of my errors are gone, and she hit 80 as I passed my neighbor's driveway, maybe 300 feet. I was really impressed how she's running now and I can't wait to see how the gas mileage improves now.
