Had a code pulled

['66 coupe]

If I drive my car after it is already warm sometimes it will hesitate. Last night, for the first and only time(I drove the car a bit today), the car stalled twice after being put into drive. I took it to Autozone and the guy said he pulled a code 13(?) and when he looked it up it said "Bad camshaft positioning sensor." I told him my car had a distributor, and that was pretty much the end of any help they gave me. At least I got some help, he was the only one at Autozone that even knew they could test our cars.

Anyone have any idea what a similar problem/diagnostic would be in our cars?

I'm about to go hit the IAC with some carb cleaner and see if that helps, but thought I'd check in here for other ideas. It is an AODE car.

 

[The Green GT]

thats an OBDII code. Our cars are ODBI There are 3 numbers ina code. Go back, and tell him to use an OBD II scanner and hook it up under the hood behind the passenger strut tower, not under the dash.

 

[HISSIN50]

Do you have a PIH conversion and stand-alone trans controller? That's actually a fox EEC-IV code (two digits). And it's right in the ballpark of the 'idle limit code', which is kinda strange.

Good luck.

 

[mo_dingo]

I think he was saying that he got a code of 13X, but couldn't remember what x was.

There are three codes, 136, 137, 139, all of which pertain to the left side O2 sensor. Make sure it's connected and the contacts are clean first, then re-run the code to see which one it is, that way you can narrow your problem down to the O2 or something of the left bank.
Scott

 

['66 coupe]

It was a two digit code. We got it from behind the shock tower and he used the older code reader. Something tells me he did everything right except look in the right system for the code. My Haynes shows OBDII codes are listed as 3-digit, but as PO***.

If it is an O2 sensor issue code, that may make sense, cause I have a manifold bolt out on the driver's side as I tried taking the stock H-pipe out on Saturday, but could only get that one bolt off. I'm gonna finish Friday, so I left it off.

I just cleaned the TB and the IAC, and there was a lot of carbon in there. The car already goes into gear smoother. I'm about to go drive the car around now and see if that was it.

 

[mo_dingo]

[QUOTE='66 coupe]It was a two digit code. We got it from behind the shock tower and he used the older code reader. Something tells me he did everything right except look in the right system for the code. My Haynes shows OBDII codes are listed as 3-digit, but as PO***.

If it is an O2 sensor issue code, that may make sense, cause I have a manifold bolt out on the driver's side as I tried taking the stock H-pipe out on Saturday, but could only get that one bolt off. I'm gonna finish Friday, so I left it off.

I just cleaned the TB and the IAC, and there was a lot of carbon in there. The car already goes into gear smoother. I'm about to go drive the car around now and see if that was it.[/QUOTE]

Yeah our cars are OBDI, not OBDII. But we still have 3 digit codes like OBDII.

Have you cleaned the MAF element yet, b/c it's notorious for causing problems.
Scott