OCV/VVT and filter removal need oil drained?

[seatech30]

Originally Posted by zoidberg444

I cleaned mine when i did my last oil change. I doubt there would be any oil in it if the engine had been off for a few minutes.

It was a very tricky job to get the plug undone and fish it out with pliers. One of the little plastic tabs on the end of mine was missing but i couldn't see any debris in it. That said 10,000 miles before that i ran engine flush through for 40 minutes because of a timing chain rattle which the flush cured.

So evidently the tensioner or VVT cam was losing oil pressure. The flush fixed it.

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Sorry, I might be mixing it up, how did you clean the VVT? By removing it then flushing it somehow? I was thinking I could probably pull it out, and soak it in brake cleaner or maybe give it 12V and give it a good spray.

The reason I'm suspecting the VVT is part of my ongoing quest to find out the cause of my engine vibration. After lots of research, it seems this could be a possibility, and it's not so cheap to replace. I used techstream to play around the other day, turning on the OCV solenoid during idle D/R actually made the rpms rise and the engine vibration settled out as if it was in N. Not sure if this is evidence, but it's drive behind my reasoning.