Mystery Solved

[wiseguydave]

I bought my 2005 on the cheap from a guy who bought it as a repo. I put about $1500 into it and that includes a cruise, timing assembly, water pump, alternator, exhaust repair, getting the tranny to shift properly, and some other minor misc. The car looked like it had sat for some time...lots of pine pitch on the exterior and a squirrel living by the battery. I figured it hadn't been used in at least a year. Turns out I was right. Found some notations in the service record in the owner's manual that I had missed previously. The original engine seized a couple years ago and was replaced with an engine with 35k LESS miles My guess is he had the engine put in but couldn't figure out how to get it to synch with the auto tranny as when I bought it, it would not get past 3rd gear. At that point he prob said screw it and parked it in the yard and quit making payments...or some other hardship befell him. Bottom line is the engine has about 91K on it so my deal got a little sweeter. Merry Christmas to me

[Pickles]

soo...what was the mystery that you solved?

[wiseguydave]

Its history

[wiseguydave]

More specifically there were just a couple things that didn't add up. I'm an unabashed car guy (this is number 76). It ran SO incredibly good...the engine is extremely tight...better than I would expect of a little engine like that with 125k (not a drop of oil used in 5k miles)...just seemed odd that someone gave up on getting the shifting problem solved. Until I took it to a GM dealer and they couldn't solve it...and a mechanic friend who couldn't solve it. I actually solved it with things I read here and elsewhere on the web.

[fbc]

I actually solved it with things I read here and elsewhere on the web.

Ahh so there is a mystery after all. Prey tell good man. What was it that fixed your problem.

[wiseguydave]

The camshaft position sensor needed a re-learn procedure

[serega12]

Cool story, bro.