Check engine light after cams?

[Pennywise2]

I can afford the down time, though would rather not

Mind telling how much you paid for your PI Cams? Buy them used?

I found brand new 2004 PI cams on eBay for $200.00.
I got all the other parts from my local Ford parts department.
It sucks when things snowball on you.
www.ebay.com

 

[stangGT97]

Very true you will not know where to start without any codes read.
I had my Ford mechanic install my PI cams at his shop and I belive the
fool probably did skip a tooth on the timing chain either at the cam or
crank and didn't say anything to me.
I am not going to waste my time with it and I will let the Ford pros and
a Ford service department take care of it.Sorry I don't shop at Autozone
and never will they are morons.
Having worked on Subaru's for ten years if this were a problem with
a Subaru it would be a peice of cake simple as that.

haha, well like many of the ford techs on here can attest, you cant always trust a mechanic @ a dealership. it is possible he screwed up. but you should bring the car back to him and just say "hey i didnt pay you $xx just for you to hack the job." But hey, live and learn, hopefully they will fix it up for you. I only suggested autozone because they will pull the code for free...

 

[Dusstbuster]

Well my SOTP feeling is definitely a lot better, the response is MUCH better. Before when you'd floor it the car would respond like "uhh...I suppose I could accelerate, but only for a little bit then I don't really want to"

Now its like YAY pedal lets go fast! I'd say the cam swap is fairly simple. Don't waste your money on the Anderson cam tool, just use a c-clamp and vice grip...refer to my install thread linked in my sig for my take on it and how we did it. Overall i'd say difficulty-wise it was probably a 7. Nerve-racking wise it was a 10 just because of all the bad thoughts stangnet put in my head as to what could happen if it skipped a tooth on the crank, so believe me, I made sure with every ounce of will I had in me that PLENTY of upwards pressure was on the cam gear/chain when we swapped the cam itself.