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Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:20 pm

This trouble code 0341 which is a code for some camshaft position sensor A keeps coming up, I replaced the knock sensor, the hall sending unit, made sure the timing marks are all aligned and everything seems to be perfect. but this code will not go away what could be the problem please help need to get this gone so my it will pass emissions and my sister can start driving her '98 cabrio

Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:48 am

Bummer that you can't pass emissions with the CEL lit up where you're at. That's kind of a bastard of of a trouble code. Yeah, there is no true camshaft position sensor. It's suppose to be the entire distributor, and I don't know what about it makes this come up. It's possible that if you replaced the timing belt that the timing marks aren't all lined up 100% correctly. I kept getting it on a 98 Jetta 2.0 last winter after doing the timing belt. I double checked the timing marks, which looked good to me, but I did make a tiny adjustment to the distributor position. After that, I think I got one further instance of that code, then it went away and did not resurface. Go figure. And, The car always ran just fine.

Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:57 am

the distributor is lined up and the marks are lined up so i dont have a clue i am completly lost

Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:12 pm

If you remove the bolt and clamp that holds the dist to the block, you will see there are two locating pins on the dist body. You can pull them out, and that will allow you to adjust the timming of the dist in the block. You might be able to adjust it enough to get the fault ot go away. If that doesn't work, you'll need a new dist.

Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:00 pm

if you only care about it passing emissions just get coilovers and slam the shit out of it. here they use a rubber wheel stop on a stick to see if you're high enough to clear the rollers.

ive passed like 5 cars that way, my 98 has a cel for an evap leak that doesnt exist. even went to my buddy's dealership and he dye tested it. so i slammed it, and pulled the cel bulb out of the cluster.

Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:29 am

73sports wrote: If you remove the bolt and clamp that holds the dist to the block, you will see there are two locating pins on the dist body. You can pull them out, .

Maybe, maybe not. I've seen them both ways. The 98 I worked on didn't have them.

Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:17 pm

if i were to slam the car it wouldnt matter because im in the metro ATL area and since its a 96 and newer they just take a nice little obd2 hook up and plug it in and they can read everything from there they dont put the car on rollers unless its pre 96

Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:03 am

yeah, here they still have to drive it over the rollers to get to the obd2 port scanner.... if the car cant get in, they'll waive it. my 98 passed that way, as well as my fiances 97, and pretty much everyone i know around here.

Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:33 pm

does it run ok? and did you recently replace the timing belt?