- Apr 6, 2014
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OK let me preface this. New to the forum, and I need some advice or help. I recently bought a 02 trailbalzer for cheap. Check engine light was on, and running rough. ran a scan and it was throwing a p0340 code. I changed the cam positioning sensor, and cleared the PCM. Doing this helped the vehicle to run smoother, but was still acting like it was misfiring. Check engine light came back on, and I put the tester to it again thinking it would give me a p300 code. instead it gave me a p0014 code (positioning actuator solenoid). After some research I went to get my oil changed and took it out to run it out. It ran the same and was still feeling like a cylinder was misfiring at idle. I was stopped at a stop sign and went to accelerate and then all of the sudden I heard a "pop" and the engine died. Luckily my son was right in front of me and turned around to see what happened. He towed me back to his place and I started trying to trouble shoot the problem. I replaced the positioning solenoid, and attempted to crank it. it tried to crank but backfired through the intake.... my initial thoughts are it jumped timing. this brings me to my question...has anyone else had this issue and what was the problem, and 2 how would I go about checking if it jumped timing?