Cas maxed to the left side. help

[unrealskill239]

my cas is all the way to the left, and if i move it any where but max left it gots really lean and starts back firing, i was reading up on this befor and was reading that it was the little weld in the cam that brakes or shifts to one side so you want mess with the cas is this true? right now the car is very sluggish until like 3k rpm or 3.5k. btw motor is freashly rebuilt, but it did this befor rebuild aswell. dose this mean i should be looking for a new cam?

[float_6969]

Either the cam timing is off (ie, the cam is off a tooth), the CAS is bad itself (not likely, but possible), or the splines inside the exhaust cam have shifted and the cam timing is off.

I would start with the cam timing being off a tooth.

[unrealskill239]

nope i know 100% its not a tooth off, the cas has been like this since i got the car. i replaced the timing belt myself. my buddy got the cas new befor i got the car.

[float_6969]

Sounds like a bad exhaust cam then.

[leadpaw]

if its the drive pin, save alot of money and just get the drive pin. Just order one for a VG30De from jim wolf technology.

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[unrealskill239]

if its the drive pin, save alot of money and just get the drive pin. Just order one for a VG30De from jim wolf technology.

ca18de-hesitation-t538941.html

damn since i dont have a old cas it will be hard installing the new drive pin. some guy is selling a cam for $50 but the same the would be wrong with that cam aswell idk what to do

but thanks for the link man, now i have more then one opiton.

[leadpaw]

if its the drive pin, save alot of money and just get the drive pin. Just order one for a VG30De from jim wolf technology.

ca18de-hesitation-t538941.html

damn since i dont have a old cas it will be hard installing the new drive pin. some guy is selling a cam for $50 but the same the would be wrong with that cam aswell idk what to do

but thanks for the link man, now i have more then one opiton.

Ask the guy to inspect or take pics of the drive. It is fairly rare for it to wear out from my experiences.

[float_6969]

The new cam is prob fine, but I would definitely ask for close up pics of the splines.

[ca18cib]

had the exact same problem it was a f**kd exhaust cam, i was rough and just gaskit glued the cas in for now but tbh its worked mint

[unrealskill239]

i just got done looking at the cam and trying to mess with the cas a little. i looked in side the cam and could only really see some rust but no broken teeth or any thing it all looked fine to my eyes but i have no way of telling if its shifted or not.

now on to me messing with the cas i moved it back to were the fsm tells me to put it and drove it around it felt like i had 12hp lol no pick up at all! and it started back firing badly. so is there any way to test the cas to see if its broken?

[float_6969]

The CAS wouldn't fail in that way. If you don't know what the splines inside the cam are SUPPOSED to look like, you probably wouldn't be able to tell that they're damaged by looking at them. Also, that splined part is a press fit into the cam, but if it shifted inside the cam, everything would look fine, but the timing would be off.

Set the timing as per the FSM. If you can get the timing right, but you have to have the CAS way to one side to do it, the exhaust came/splines will need replaced. If the timing is still screwy, but better, than MAYBE the CAS is bad, but they don't usually fail that way.