CADILLAC VVT CODES P0011 AND P0014

[@DaveSender66]

You remind me a lot of my uncle. He was an old school Mechanic he just found a way to make things work. These videos you make help, help a lot of people, that says a lot about your character. Thank you partner!

[@jamesdanner7850]

you bet. thanks for the feedback

[@Antto]

Your torque wrench is pretty decent when it makes your mouth go Click at the correct torque. Top job!

[@billyr9840]

Nice! Well done James! You should do a vid on what the phaser's do and exactly how they work. Bet your viewers would appreciate it and find it very interesting.

[@TheTexasCoder]

Great video, keep us posted if that driver side comes back since we so the extra blips on the wave form. Nicely done with those snap rings, that had me at a pucker factor of 10! Thanks for posting brother, have a great weekend!

[@saladsnake7911]

Great video ! thanks for showing us how you make your back-probe leads.

[@jamesdanner7850]

ask and you shall receive

[@DJDevon3]

Shouldn't you have cleaned up the old phaser gasket first before putting the snap ring in? Did you make a new adhesive gasket? Amazing job getting the snap ring in. Pretty sure I wouldn't have been able to do that. This is by far your best video yet. The camera angles, focus, editing, procedures, and showing every step including confirmation waveform is outstanding. Please use this as a template for all of your future videos. This video is absolutely perfect. If you do all your future videos in this same exact way you will acquire a huge following. Bravo.

[@jamesdanner7850]

gee. no pressure.. Ha.. glad u liked it. I thought it was a little scattered cause I filmed a bunch out of order

[@jgeorges3061]

good approach and diagnostic way to go thanks for sharing cheeeers.

[@ozzstars_cars]

nice fix...you didn't give up. Did the dreaded P0420 code dissappear and stay away after the repair?

[@jamesdanner7850]

not sure. been at the beach last 10 days :)... returning late tomorrow :(

[@davntelisha19]

Your the mad man good stuff

[@8power0]

Great video adventure in automotive diagnostics great video my friend that car may need to be driven a bit to synchronize the solenoids and thanks again .

[@prmayner]

Don't you just love those junk yard dogs. Sounds like some of the engines i've gotten before, they say yea we got one that will fit and then you find out you have to swap everything but the block to make it work. Good job JD, thanks. Does anyone ever call you JD?

[@jamesdanner7850]

thanks. I've heard JD a few times

[@jamesdanner7850]

this engine the shipping slip said Washington... an eBay deal.. can u imagine returning that? I think the most nervous I was, was on that VW 2l turbo with the broken chain I showed real quick on a video. I had everything swapped including a new timing belt kit before I saw the turbo housing was cracked and Turbo was seized. was thanking the Lord that one purred on start-up

[@littlebambino5145]

Brilliant 👏

[@j.r.3330]

Great job.

[@gregmooney4090]

thank you i have one broken don,t know where i well get the part though but i now it can be done

[@SteveRobReviews]

Now that was off the wall 👍 glad you showed how you put the test leads together as well. BTW Danner your moms car did the head gasket stop leak repair last ?

[@jamesdanner7850]

Grammys car is gone. we had a replacement in the works when I did that video. it started pushing that crud into the overflow tube and clogged the elbow in the cap and actually over pressurized the system bad enough to crack the radiator. 3 separate times. (glued it). then the fan cycled erratically a few weeks later..never got another C0 hit tho. I think that stuff insulated the sensor. prob gummed up the tstat. I think she got to 149500 miles. maybe 3k ? before summer creeped in and all that started showing up. my next short video is gonna be the eulogy, to put it to rest

[@jamesdanner7850]

I meant 249500. shorted the old girl 100k. ha

[@tam1381]

Nice job Danner.

[@johnzore]

cool thanks james

[@klaudiaorzol]

or give me details where you can buy what was broken although what is the part number and what exactly is called

[@420eds]

Question for you boss man. what is this align the CMP actuator solenoid to CMP actuator oil control valve...I read i must remove the center cover??

[@buzzbuzzard9469]

WOW...Great job

[@wysetech2000]

Excellent diag and repair video as usual James. Like the idea of making your own jumper leads but how do you keep track of them as they appear to be the same color. One shot looked like a can of worms.....LoL

[@jamesdanner7850]

that's what the inside of my head looks like. a big mess with potential. ha. seriously tho. I had a black and a purple (the purple is my oldest and grease stained to near black. notice the new one I made was white? that should help. thanks

[@trainer2018]

I think the reason why you saw the increased duty cycle on the actuator was because the computer didn't like what it saw on the position sensor and therefore kept keeping the actuator on longer. Too bad you didn't have time to look at the actuator current and duty cycle at the same time. You would have seen the increase in current and you could compare that to the known good one.

[@jamesdanner7850]

yea. ur probably right. it just looked funny with that rhythmic rapid pulse

[@trainer2018]

Saw you have a solus edge now, how do you like it? Contemplating on getting one myself.

[@jamesdanner7850]

Nah. Its Nick's. I think its the solus ultra. I like it though

[@trainer2018]

Ultra ok. Does it come with troubleshooter built in or do you have to pay a sub for it?

[@jamesdanner7850]

no. he got it off Craigslist. I think the basic trouble shooter like mine but nothing online.

[@wtbm123]

Nice video

[@eduardonunes9259]

very good video

[@davidjames666]

A dead battery in a cadillac can be caused by the obsolete analog onstar module in the trunk near the power antenna. Disconnect it!! It wakes up every few minutes and searches for an analog cellular signal that does not exist anymore. It can malfunction, and stay on at full power draining the battery very quickly

[@chekelley6861]

What's the difference between the solus and solus pro? Great videos by the way.

[@jamesdanner7850]

the pro has the better color screen and a chargeable battery pack.

[@hightechautomotive9899]

fighting this right now did it ever come back with the same issue ?

[@hddm3]

wow cool, never seen those before. thanks

[@Ahto42]

I did not see that you put the spring back when you installed the intake one. At 37 minutes

[@jamesdanner7850]

I edited a lot of stuff on that one for time

[@Ahto42]

+James Danner like lot of swearing words and your opinion about that car at that moment :)

[@jamesdanner7850]

Yep . Something like that:)

[@MuhammadAli-su3oo]

Cadillac CTS 2011 P0014 - When performing active Test; Increasing Ex Cam B1 but Intake Cam is Increasing. While B2 is fine. Increasing Ex Cam B2, Ex Cam B2 is increasing. Help please

[@alkathiri84]

I have same issue after replace the engine I got P0011 and P0014 on optima 2.4 GDI 2011. I have change the poth CMP, but I didn't fix the issue :(.

[@ScottPuopolo]

Shnap ring...ha ha. Flashlight in the mouth. Great video! Stupid snap ring.

[@jamesdanner7850]

shnap. ha. I heard it when editing. those stylus pro flashlights are wearing my teeth down

[@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics]

+James Danner WalMart sells LED headlamps cheap in the camping section. Makes you look like a dork but very convenient!

[@mcphersonsean20]

bro where is your shop located?????...you sound like you have a PITTSBURGH accent

[@ljdapro1983]

Can you give me a diagram of the banks I have the same problem and it make my car run like crap Code : p2090 b camshaft position Actuator control circuit Low bank 1c Please help

[@abochavez]

hit, junk, signal pulse, same thing hahaha

[@LynxStarAuto]

Is that a RWD Northstar??

[@jamesdanner7850]

yes. the oil pan still has the hole for the awd tho

[@LynxStarAuto]

Hmm. Interesting. I never knew GM made RWD/AWD versions of the Northstar. I had only seen FWD versions. I know there was the CTS V and SLR, but those were LS engines. Never seen a RWS Northstar. Learn something new everyday.

[@jamesdanner7850]

It was a first for me. I'm not even sure if they called that generation a northstar to be honest

[@klaudiaorzol]

I have the same problem but in cadillac srx 2006. please come to Germany and repair my car

[@462ANIMAL]

Cool :-)

[@BBS_Robski]

first again,BOOM !

[@amunderdog]

VVT - The cause of mechanics nightmares

[@chengyang4722]

this is y i never buy cars from used dealer they r junk to begain with.lol.

[@rodpalm6398]

Typical hydraulic switch valve. Looks just like the ones inside an automatic transmission valve body.

[@Mebob2001]

God i hate these engines, never had to do much to them, but the northstars are a piece of crap, but when there working correctly, they hall ASS