Good day to all... So, if you haven't read any of my previous posts, my sons 99 Cougar had the idler pulley on the timing belt go out, and so we had to replace the belt, the two idlers, and the tensioner. I didn't have a good way to hold the exhaust cam, but with a hint from another post, we turned the cam with a wrench toward the front of the car and was able to get everything to stay lined up timing mark wise after 2 and 4 rotations of the crank.
So, after all of this, we went out and drove it, and it ran fine. The next day he drove it, and it lost power and seemed to be surging. So he came home and we checked the codes. One was the camshaft sensor P0340 camshaft sensor failure. The other was the P1381 CVT code. I went ahead and replaced the cam sensor, and later that day it throw that code again even after clearing them. What I don't understand is that we never had that code before, and we didn't mess with either the sensor or the wiring when we had it apart. I really think if we could get that issue fixed, it would probably run OK, and maybe fox the P1381 code too since it doesn't seem to know what the cam is doing. Any ideas? Thanks!
So, after all of this, we went out and drove it, and it ran fine. The next day he drove it, and it lost power and seemed to be surging. So he came home and we checked the codes. One was the camshaft sensor P0340 camshaft sensor failure. The other was the P1381 CVT code. I went ahead and replaced the cam sensor, and later that day it throw that code again even after clearing them. What I don't understand is that we never had that code before, and we didn't mess with either the sensor or the wiring when we had it apart. I really think if we could get that issue fixed, it would probably run OK, and maybe fox the P1381 code too since it doesn't seem to know what the cam is doing. Any ideas? Thanks!
