So this is my fathers 05 trailblazer. He brought it to local Goodyear shop and they told him he needed a radiator cause it had a crack and cam sensor. $1100+ to fix.
So went to the local Napa picked up the cam sensor, vvt sensor, and radiator.
Yes it did have the codes for both sensors.
Changed it all and ran beautifully. Noticed the bolt for the ground post was bad so I drove it to napa with a 8mm wrench and bolt the new post bolt and changed it in the parking lot. Drove perfectly home. Called my father to tell him it's all done and he came to pick it up and started up and was misfiring. So told him to leave it and I will continue to look at it. So after finding a misfire on #2 & #3 I read coils could possibly go bad. I asked him if the spark plugs have ever been changed and he told me he didn't think so. So took the airbox off and saw that #6 coil was definitely has been changed. So did a little more digging they changed #6 spark plug and coil. So I swapped all 6 plugs with the proper AC delco plugs and replaced the 2 coils. Ran beautifully until you turned the A/C on and it would stall and die.
So grabbed some throttle body cleaner and cleaned it as well. (Was told there is a relearning that the computer had to do)
Anyway truck has been running great now for 3-4 weeks and now it dies after warm up and will not restart.
Weird thing is the abs and brake light on the dash comes on along with the speedometer jumping before it stalls.
It now shows code P0013.
But I just changed the vvt sensor.
Any help with this would be great.
Sorry it has 279xxx miles.
So went to the local Napa picked up the cam sensor, vvt sensor, and radiator.
Yes it did have the codes for both sensors.
Changed it all and ran beautifully. Noticed the bolt for the ground post was bad so I drove it to napa with a 8mm wrench and bolt the new post bolt and changed it in the parking lot. Drove perfectly home. Called my father to tell him it's all done and he came to pick it up and started up and was misfiring. So told him to leave it and I will continue to look at it. So after finding a misfire on #2 & #3 I read coils could possibly go bad. I asked him if the spark plugs have ever been changed and he told me he didn't think so. So took the airbox off and saw that #6 coil was definitely has been changed. So did a little more digging they changed #6 spark plug and coil. So I swapped all 6 plugs with the proper AC delco plugs and replaced the 2 coils. Ran beautifully until you turned the A/C on and it would stall and die.
So grabbed some throttle body cleaner and cleaned it as well. (Was told there is a relearning that the computer had to do)
Anyway truck has been running great now for 3-4 weeks and now it dies after warm up and will not restart.
Weird thing is the abs and brake light on the dash comes on along with the speedometer jumping before it stalls.
It now shows code P0013.
But I just changed the vvt sensor.
Any help with this would be great.
Sorry it has 279xxx miles.
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