New to Subaru's, need help with Baja

[lumpy53]

Ok, I have a 2004 Baja turbo I got about 2 years ago, it has about 209,000 miles on it and the turbo was replaced with a used one that had 70,000 miles on it just before I bought it. Well now my problem is it sat for 2 weeks while I was out of town and now it has lost acceleration, Turbo is smoking a little where a rod hooks up and ( hadn't drove it for the last week) Drove it today lots of white smoke out the tail pipe. I got these codes, P0011 "A" Camshaft Position Over- Advanced or System Performance and  P0021 "A" Camshaft Position Over- Advanced or System Performance. 

 

Wish I could figure out how to post pics, that would really help. 

 

 

 

 

[idosubaru]

Repair the turbo probably needs rebuilt.

 

Smoking turbo and exhaust smoke on a turbo engine is very bad. Might be simple or might mean you need a new block next time you try to run it. Not a good idea to limp turbos along like their nonturbo cousins.

[idosubaru]

I would guess ( and I'm not well versed in turbos) the failing turbo is causing the cam codes so they are just artifacts and symptoms of the real issue. I'd fix the smoking and turbo first then the cam codes will likely already be taken care of or address those next.

 

How many miles on the timing belt timing tensioner and pulleys?

[wtdash]

Google found THIS on NASIOC....Remember, Baja = 2006+ WRX/STI engine....actually the 2004-2005 Baja have the same exact engine as the 2004-2007 STi - different turbo and TMIC on the STi for more POWer. So NASIOC is a great resource for these issues.

 

Personally, I'd check those oil line filters- to the turbo and camshafts. There was a TSB on 'em years ago now . They should be replaced or removed and make sure you're changing the oil every 3K.

 

But 209K miles on Subaru turbo engine is getting up there.

 

 

TD

Edited March 13, 2016 by wtdash