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2005 PT Cruiser 2.4L - Misfire Question
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:11 am
by RODNEYY
Can a target magnet cause an intermittent misfire on 1 cylinder?
Re: 2005 PT Cruiser 2.4L - Misfire Question
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:20 am
by Tim Martin
At the risk of being misunderstood, my question is: What is a target magnet?
Re: 2005 PT Cruiser 2.4L - Misfire Question
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 11:53 am
by liljoe
Never seen it cause a misfire for any one cylinder, have seen it set P0340 code for cam timing. In answer to question #2, target magnet is the magnet on the end of the cam shaft that the cam sensor reads off of.
Re: 2005 PT Cruiser 2.4L - Misfire Question
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:29 am
by steven kiser
Have had a lot of misfire issues on these beauties because of a harness chafing through on the valve cover.
Re: 2005 PT Cruiser 2.4L - Misfire Question
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:14 pm
by jbadenoch
during your diag procedure i would swap a couple coils and see if the misfrire moves. From what i think, the cam sensor only syncronizes inj pulse and spark for start up. Once running it uses the crank sensor. You can prove this by un-plugging cam sensor with eng running. I've seen quite a few of these with coil issues. Hope it helps