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surivdaoreht
Jan 22, 2009

2008 cobalt 202k miles 2.2 ecotec

So for a good while I had a dreaded timing chain slap on cold start a second or two, and I decided to attempt changing to the newer and revised timing chain tensioner.

I changed the part out yesterday, the super ghetto take it out and put the new one in without opening up the valve cover way (it's -20c here). Initially I had no codes and I thought I had solved the problem - until I started hearing some unpleasant noises.

Upon further review I realized I should've made sure that the tensioner was released and doing it's job correctly. That involved me taking it out, and manually putting into the extended state. I re-installed and everything became beautifully quiet and wonderful. Then I got a p0016 code saying the cam/crank were out of sync.

From everything I read I anticipated it to run like a dog, or at least exhibit some symptom.

Except it didn't.. it runs great. I put it through it's paces and it seems perfectly fine to me.

I have an obd reader that gives me some info and the only thing that seems out is the alternator seems to be putting out 15 - 15.5 v which I find very odd.

Cliff notes:

New timing chain tensioner, throws a p0016 crank/cam out of correlation, but still runs fine but the voltage output from the alternator seems high 15.5v area... I'm confused!

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