inconsistent p0014

[dlnelsonroca]

For some months I've gotten a P0014 code. The screen on the camshaft position actuator was broken, so I bought a new one and installed it. What happens now is that if I drive on the highway for twenty miles or so then the p0014 code is thrown. Then if I drive around in my small town for a few days, never going more than a mile or two at a time and at low speeds, the light turns off.

To complicate the matter, this afternoon while idling the engine started running badly, and the pending code thrown was p0300.

I've periodically cleaned the throttle body, but haven't done that in probably a year.

Suggestions?

 

[Mounce]

Did you just replace the screen or the whole actuator? If the actuator, what brand?

 

[dlnelsonroca]

The whole actuator, but I don't recall which brand. I'm sure it wasn't original. And it surprised me because it can turn even after I've bolted it in.

 

[Mounce]

There's your problem....it has failed.

1. We always recommend you use the OEM ACDelco parts for this because aftermarket parts aren't made to the same standards and don't read things right and it makes the PCM unhappy.

2. If you can turn it with it bolted in, it has failed internally.

 

[dlnelsonroca]

Thank you! I'll pick one up when I'm in the States in a little more than a week!

Do you think that the p0300 code and the engine missing that happened yesterday could be related to this?

 

[Mounce]

Try to order one online through Ebay or Amazon, they're cheaper that way.

And I'm not sure, wouldn't surprise me though.