Rough idle/no rev problem

[911monty]

Originally Posted by tada

Thanks for all of the input. I ordered a exhaust pressure tester and will check for a clogged catalytic converter tomorrow. I will play around with finding TDC and BDC tonight. Thanks again, Tom

And by the way Markus, your English is excellent. Far better than my German could ever be.

Tom; You just need to find TDC #1 (timing mark) find piston top with chopstick through spark plug hole and mark. Turn crank 180 deg (BDC) and mark chopstick again. Then place chopstick into each cylinder and rotate making sure all pistons reach the same marks. It's not precision, just looking for major difference.

[muscatty]

Have you checked the cam timing? My engine sounded just like your video when my bank 2 timing was off.

[boxster]

I had similar symptoms but not exactly. I got engine check light and it started dying whilst I was sat in traffic. I could rev it but as soon as I let off the gas it would either die or seems like its about to die. Problem turned out to be one of the solenoids, and fyi, it is quite expensive. I would try to check them out, although I'm not quite sure how.

[tada]

Originally Posted by muscatty

Have you checked the cam timing? My engine sounded just like your video when my bank 2 timing was off.

Timing definitely occurred to me. I thought maybe the camshaft position indicator could be bad. But to check the cam timing, don't I need to get it running and check it with the Durametric?