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I would wait until you get the cat issues taken care of before everyone starts speculating on everything here.
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I would address the cat problems first. I doubt if one phaser advancing wrong is going to affect them for a long time if at all. People are putting those stupid wedges in them to lock them up solid and they have no effect on the cats.I'd rather get the engine running 100% first because I'm pretty sure that is why the cat melted in the first place. I'm gonna put a new 02 on there and start recording more PIDs until I find what is signaling these cams to retard at idle
Both phasers should always retard with higher RPM'S, right? I doubt if thicker oil will do anything, and I am wondering if one of the phasers is malfunctioning.After some more testing and data logging, I'm convinced there is something on the driver's side that is bleeding oil pressure. After the engine runs perfectly for about 30 minutes and I come to a stop, bank 2 goes advanced and stays there until the engine is shut down or put in neutral and revved. Since I put a new melling 340hv in it I doubt oil flow is the problem, and it's only on bank 2, which supposedly is the first to get the oil flow, and bank 1 has 0 issues, and swapping cam sensors made 0 difference. I'm going to try a thicker oil to see if my theory is correct. Maf, tps, fuel pressure, upstream 02 all look correct.
If it was bleeding that much pressure the passenger side wouldn't work right since it gets oil last. Try 40 weight but I don't think it will change anything. With that good oil pump in there the driver side phaser should have more chance of working right than the pass side. Let us know what the thicker oil did.Bank 1 retards normally, bank 2 doesn't until enine is revved or shut down, leading me to suspect something on that side is bleeding pressure. A thicker oil is a "cheap" way to test this theory.