cam sensor problem

[873.8Turbo]

First off my car has never ran right, I have owned it for a year and a half, and have never been able to find out the problem(have been thinking about selling it) but I thing I might have now

The car misses constatly- not a dead miss, but a stumble on multiple cylinders, detanation, and a rich condition

After getting out of school for the day I went to start my car. As soon as it fired up the check engine light came on, I looked at the oil psi- zero I freaked, cut it off, then, asuming I was seeing things, or the guage was wrong, tried to start it again- nothing but crank.
I got it towed to my dealership where I work- find out the pin in the cam sensor gear broke. I am fixing this now, but what I also noticed was that there was noting between the base of the housing, and the gear.(there was an extremely thin washer, thats it) I belive that this would cause the shaft to move back and forth about 5-10degrees, and also move up and down, setting the cam sensor off- causing a miss

Does this sound right to you? I can only hope that this is the problem- I have checked alot of stuff, but never have found anything wrong with the car until now.

 

[86gn]

Yes with the cam sensor jumping around it will cause a miss and also backfiring.

There are a few people on this board that will do a perment fix to your broken sensor so it wont happen again.and its cheaper.

 

[Blown&Injected]

Originally posted by 86gn
There are a few people on this board that will do a perment fix to your broken sensor so it wont happen again.and its cheaper.

What are you talking about? Some type of rebuild or something?

I got about 300,000 miles on my GN and that sensor is from July 1986 and I'm thinking about doing the big oil pump gears; that would probably put that old part (the cam sensor) over the edge.

Who should I talk to about that?
Thanks,

 

[873.8Turbo]

86gn-
What kind of fix it this you are talking about?

At the shop, I found an old distributor that had the shim and some black piece w/ tabs that fits up into groves on the bottom of the housing. This should be all I need to stop it from moving around. Is there somthing else im missing?

 

[86gn]

I had one that the pin kept shering off of and board member "KIP" and one other cant remember who said they could fix my broken one from it happing again.

 

[S10xGN]

Bill Anderson, IIRC... Cam Sensor Thread

 

[Blown&Injected]

Thanks, and Bill is local for me!