Originally Posted by
pizzaguy
Power steering pumps appear to be failing at a faster rate than ever before. In 2010, I dont think I heard of one going bad, today, I hear about it on Facebook quite often. In any event, keep in mind our cars are at the 20 year mark (or close to it), such items are going to fail.
"like the battery is dead"? If the battery is dead, the starter wont engage. If the battery is weak, the engine will turn over slowly, (if terminal voltage goes below about 10.7, the car wont start anyway). Why would you change the crank sensor in such a case?
Was there evidence of oil in the area of the sensor? Leaky valve-breather covers is common and no big deal.
Your post is ambiguous, is the engine turning over slowly on the starter? Or is it just taking a lot of turns before starting?
so, power steering pump (if that’s what I was hearing) is no longer even doing the whining now… never had any power steering issues either, was just assuming based of what i found on here that coming from driver side of bay everyone lead to believe it is the power steering pump (i ordered one anyways that’s on way still).
So the car would crank weak/slow sounding (as if a dying battery) is best I can describe… but it would crank over on its own then and car would run, no issues and as it normally does…. Although now it won’t start at all now and if i turn key to attempt cranking… i get smoke from passenger side bay… guy at advance said he thinks the smoke is from starter… and after searching my service manuals starter is down on that side… so it just might be that…
i dont see any fluids anywhere leaking & smoke wasn’t coming from the block itself… almost thought alternator but that’s up front and fully visible and definitely not where smoke was coming from…
I tried starting once more before calling AAA and it did the weak/slow/delayed crank and then fired up and drove like itself home… but parking and leaving till I figure this out… don’t want to chance keep starting and further damage anything. Guess I’ll have to find a starter and see if that works… and inspect wiring, grounds, etc; advance auto hooked up to battery 1st with vehicle off and he said battery is showing good… but of course it then wouldn’t crank up for him to allow his tool to further check alternator and starter…
Crankshaft position sensor I had ordered & kept one on hand… last year, maybe a year and half ago… it was down pouring and I got a crankshaft sensor or possibly wiring code I forget what code… but I assumed due to the heavy downpour here in Port Saint Lucie, Florida could have just been that… cleared code to see if it
would replicate/come back and orders one just incase and kept tooling in car anyways… but nothing with it in a year/year & half… but again, searching on here I did see possibilities of it being a bad crankshaft or even camshaft sensors keeping it from starting, so for heck of it, since I had it anyways I changed it… but when changing it, it was wet.. with fluid. Idk what fluids it couldn’t have been.. I don’t think it could have been just water since it’s enclosed in bellhousing and higher up on top anyways.. unless it wasn’t seated fully… then possibly since the rain/washer fluid drain holes to drop directly into transmission around there if I remember right when I was clearing drains in the fall…