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Jeep Wrangler JK
JK General Discussion
Camshaft Position Sensor Codes
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<blockquote data-quote="Cold Steel 106" data-source="post: 450062" data-attributes="member: 23882"><p>Update......</p><p></p><p>I decided to play around with my Jeep and figured something out (hopefully). I mentioned doing a voltage test in my previous post on both the right and left cam sensor and getting intermittent 5V readings on 3 of the wires (one is a ground). This told me the there was obviously a break in the connection somewhere, but where? How far down the harness would I have to go to find it? A lot of my plastic housing on my harness is dry rotted and cracking anyway so I started pulling off the easy stuff and cutting off the tape on other parts. I went about 8 inches down from the connector on each side and didn't notice anything obvious. </p><p></p><p>New game plan, I cut the wires on the driver side cam sensor about 3 inches down. With the key in the "on" position I should have 5V to 3 out of the 4 wires. With the bare wires exposed on the harness, I attached my volt meter which registered 5V on the 3 bare wires (again, the 4th is a ground). I bent, tugged and wiggled the wires while testing. I DID NOT lose any voltage at all. I spliced the wires back together to the connector using a heat shrink butt splice terminals to ensure a good solid connection. Once again, I attached the volt meter to each terminal and again had intermittent 5V readings. The difference this time was I bent the wire directly where it feeds into the connector that attaches to the cam sensor. This leads me to believe that the actual connector is bad and that I do not have any broken wires in the harness at all. I purchased two new pigtails which I should have this Saturday. Hopefully this solves my issue once and for all. I know how frustrated I have been with this situation so I hope this helps someone out there. If anyone has any questions on what I have tried and how, I am happy to answer. I'm not a mechanic by any means but I like to tinker and fix things. I will update once I connect the new pigtails and run the Jeep for a bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cold Steel 106, post: 450062, member: 23882"] Update...... I decided to play around with my Jeep and figured something out (hopefully). I mentioned doing a voltage test in my previous post on both the right and left cam sensor and getting intermittent 5V readings on 3 of the wires (one is a ground). This told me the there was obviously a break in the connection somewhere, but where? How far down the harness would I have to go to find it? A lot of my plastic housing on my harness is dry rotted and cracking anyway so I started pulling off the easy stuff and cutting off the tape on other parts. I went about 8 inches down from the connector on each side and didn't notice anything obvious. New game plan, I cut the wires on the driver side cam sensor about 3 inches down. With the key in the "on" position I should have 5V to 3 out of the 4 wires. With the bare wires exposed on the harness, I attached my volt meter which registered 5V on the 3 bare wires (again, the 4th is a ground). I bent, tugged and wiggled the wires while testing. I DID NOT lose any voltage at all. I spliced the wires back together to the connector using a heat shrink butt splice terminals to ensure a good solid connection. Once again, I attached the volt meter to each terminal and again had intermittent 5V readings. The difference this time was I bent the wire directly where it feeds into the connector that attaches to the cam sensor. This leads me to believe that the actual connector is bad and that I do not have any broken wires in the harness at all. I purchased two new pigtails which I should have this Saturday. Hopefully this solves my issue once and for all. I know how frustrated I have been with this situation so I hope this helps someone out there. If anyone has any questions on what I have tried and how, I am happy to answer. I'm not a mechanic by any means but I like to tinker and fix things. I will update once I connect the new pigtails and run the Jeep for a bit. [/QUOTE]
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