Hello all,
In the morning I will be replacing the camshaft position sensor on my 5.9L. I've read up on it a little bit but do have one question (so far). One post made it sound like the timing will have to be redone after this procedure but never directly said so, does it? And if so, can someone point me in the direction of instructions on how to set the timing, as I have never done this before?
Much appreciated,
Matthew

 

'tis the season:

http://www.rm-indy.com/wavefiles/2001ramsrvcmanual.zip

 

The timing does not have to be set. Remove the neg. battery cable while you do the work. The PCM will reset it self after 20 miles or so.

 

Dang it,

You just GAVE him the fish! I'm trying to teach him to CATCH it!

 

LOL sorry! But if everyone had the manual , what would we do.:-)

 

Probably hang out with our wives,

Good point!

 

LMAO! This is more fun unless she's had a few! LOL

 

Thanks, I had that manual but couldn't find what I was looking for.

Here's the scoop for anyone who has the same problem and finds this through the search engine:

I had CEL and codes P0340 and P1391

Although the code will say camshaft position sensor the replacement part is the distributor pickup coil. This ran me around $50 from Autozone. For another $20 or so I picked up a replacement distributor cap and rotor since I had to take them off anyways.

Replacement is very simple despite the difficult location of the parts.

As mentioned above disconnect the negative battery cable

Pull all the wires of the distributor, may want to label them first for simplicity when hooking them back up.

The distributor cap comes off with 2 Phillips head screws.

The rotor and pickup coil now just pull straight up and off. The pick up coil has a wire that plugs in on the drivers side of the engine.

When installing the new pickup coil note that the distributor has a notch that part of the pickup coil will fit into to let the wire out.

Just put the rotor back on (it only goes on one way), and then the distributor cap. Note where the #1 spark plug wire connects and go from there hooking up the wires.

Reconnect the battery cable and enjoy.

Hope this helps. I've pretty much only done oil/brake changes before and with a friend we did this in less than a hour taking our time.

-Matthew

 

Thanks for the info. I have an Po300 code and po301 and P0308 and sometimes a P0300 and P0304. It changes sometimes. I can't yet check my fuel pressure because there is no extra port. i have steady vacuum. I was thinking about trying the cam sensor. New wires and cap and rotor. Any ideas.

 

Have you changed the plugs anytime recently? If not that'd be the first thing to do.

Test the ignition coil (procedure is in the service manual, which can be downloaded in the FAQs section)... This usually acts up when the truck is running for a while, but can still act up all the time.

Test fuel pressure at the shrader valve (49psi, +/- 5psi). Idk what you mean by "there is no extra port"...

Do those things first before replacing anything and everything you think it "might" be