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I will get a pic when I'm home

Bar dropping the engine to take the timing covers off I have checked everything I can and it all looks as it should the only thing I am thinking it could be is if I have the crank trigger wheel on back to front? As you can see in this picture it would put the missing tooth in a different place and possibly cause this issue??

It's a 2az fe in a celica gt4

just jumping on this thread to see if you got anywhere with it? my engine conversion can run a newer higher output unit but it needs an RLO wire added but need to workout whats needed

Hi people, In my engine swap the alternator is dying a slow death and I'm looking to upgrade. My particular toyota engine came with 2 types of alternator in its time a 3 pin and later in a 4 pin higher output unit. I currently have the 3 pin and I'm looking to change to the 4 pin version, my issue is what do I do with the extra "field" wire? I'm struggling to find any solid info online as to what to do with it, some places say to just ground it out and others say it needs to be connected to the ecu. Is there anyone that can point me in the right direction? Cheers

Yes everything it's as per the manual except I can't confirm the crank trigger wheel

So I've been looking in to possible solutions to this cam timing being too close. For me to flip the crank trigger wheel I woukd need to drop my engine and at the moment I don't have that facility so I have been thinking would I be able to grind 2 of the timing marks off the cam to make it just 1 out of 4 instead of 3 out of 4?

Right I've been doing some investigation, I was told that the vvti should unlock when oil pressure is applied to it so I ran the car up turned the output to test for the vvti and immediately the car miss fired and cut out. So to me that would suggest the vvti gear isn't locked I tried again whilst logging and it cut out so there is must l definitely be movement in the vvti gear. I have a feeling that maybe the trigger wheel is on backwards on the crank that could be causing this issue With the retarded cam signal? I'm going to test this theory out a little bit later when the local traffic has calmed down by disabling the vvti all together and see what happens I'll add a link to the log of it cutting out when testing the vvti shortly

I've double checked the cam timing and it's all bang on

Oh OK, I'm going to sort this out this weekend hopefully

Well I have just changed out the crank sensor out for a new more expensive Item and the trigger error is still there I really think its a settings issue the intake cam being locked retarded can't be the cause of this issue surely

All being well I'll be able to have a look at the sprocket and timing this weekend and have a good vvti sprocket ready to go in if needed. I do however think that the trigger error is More to do with the sensor as it only seems to happen when just as the engine either increases speed or slows down. I have a new sensor coming this week too

I will have a look, it's pretty tight in the bay so will have to see what I can do without dropping the engine, I do have 2 spare cylinder heads with cams so if needed and if I can get the cams out without dropping the engine I will probably look at putting in the new cams with a newer vvti sprocket from the spare head

Could this potentially be down to the vvti not being set up yet? I will investigate this when I have some spare time during the daytime

The timing was correct as per the instructions as its marked on the timing chain. I will check to see if the gear is locked on the weekend. I do have a set of BC cams to go in so may just set about installing them.