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AAARRRRGGHGHHHHhhhh!!! I think I may just have had a gallery gasket failure. I am getting the following codes, and it aligns with this guys video on youtube for expected fault codes (not that he is some Nissan Legend or anything). But Low Oil pressure sounds logical.

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I think these are both oil related.

P0021 definition: Intake Camshaft Position Timing- Over-Advanced (Bank 2) : https://www.fixdapp.com/blog/p0021-code/

P0524 Nissan Code - Engine Oil Pressure Too Low - https://www.autocodes.com/p0524_nissan.html

WAAAAIT a sec, he was possibly wrong, he later says his gaskets were ok (they weren't visually sticking out). But then he found a possible leak/failure point. @ video time 13:00

I dont think I have catastrophic failure, as the car drives, and when I turn it off, the Check Engine light disappears and doesnt come on until and only sometimes, when I experience the misfires; which only happened about 3 times on a 45min drive and only under harder throttle.

Has anyone else experienced this failure? I have read its about 15% of G owners. Lucky me... I'm hoping its something else :100_pray:

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On 7/14/2023 at 12:47 AM, Vee37 said:

AAARRRRGGHGHHHHhhhh!!! I think I may just have had a gallery gasket failure. I am getting the following codes, and it aligns with this guys video on youtube for expected fault codes (not that he is some Nissan Legend or anything). But Low Oil pressure sounds logical.

Screenshot_20230714-152739000-CROPPED.thumb.jpg.1642dda44b98b9f7a2442cd8bdf4080e.jpg

I think these are both oil related.

P0021 definition: Intake Camshaft Position Timing- Over-Advanced (Bank 2) : https://www.fixdapp.com/blog/p0021-code/

P0524 Nissan Code - Engine Oil Pressure Too Low - https://www.autocodes.com/p0524_nissan.html

WAAAAIT a sec, he was possibly wrong, he later says his gaskets were ok (they weren't visually sticking out). But then he found a possible leak/failure point. @ video time 13:00

I dont think I have catastrophic failure, as the car drives, and when I turn it off, the Check Engine light disappears and doesnt come on until and only sometimes, when I experience the misfires; which only happened about 3 times on a 45min drive and only under harder throttle.

Has anyone else experienced this failure? I have read its about 15% of G owners. Lucky me... I'm hoping its something else :100_pray:

Check oil pressure yourself. Supposedly it can just be the solenoid failure and the gallery gaskets are actually fine.

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23 hours ago, joshuaho96 said:

Check oil pressure yourself. Supposedly it can just be the solenoid failure and the gallery gaskets are actually fine.

A LOT has happened since (not just the car). But long story short, P0021 (cam pos sensor) can trigger a P0524! (low oil pressure) I read it in the G37 manual.

I started to get misfires, cleared the codes, drove gently, didn't get low oil pressure. But the CAM pos sensor came back & it also started to misfired with the appropriate code. All made sense for a cam sensor to me. So, I did the obvious and what the ODBII was telling me, and replaced the CAM sensor, and all is fixed. And it *may* even be better performance & fuel economy. Too early to tell. Just fixed late Thu and only driven Friday.

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16 hours ago, colin.ssc said:

Thats good to hear you have fixed it. Unrelated - what OBDII do you have?

Jaycar for the Bluetooth dongle. I had a cheapie eBay one, I used for years on my V35 Coupe, but I read somewhere of the eBay versions frying a cars ECU, so I "upgraded", to a cheapie Jaycar one.... even though my $15 one from ebay worked fine for years on my V35

and the software is NDSIII Lite v1.3 running on an android phone; vIII for v36 and vII for V35's. The lite one has a time limit, but its waaay long enough to read & clear codes. The graphs die over a long trip. Its on the playstore. And I just scrolled up to see that I included screen shots of that🫣

I now plan to run a check every month or so, and not just wait for something I notice.

On a side note, I ordered two from two different sources, in case one arrived faster I could get my car on the road sooner, as only one reported failure. When the second one finally arrives, I'll put that one on. It really was a doddle to fit it. One 10mm socket wrench, 1 non-tourqued bolt and no removing anything to get to it or even having to reach deep into the engine to get to it. It was right there.

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1 hour ago, colin.ssc said:

Thanks for the info. Will have a look - I have been dragging my feet getting a OBD reader. Unfortunately I'm on iOS. Might see if I can find an old android somehwere haha

I do Android dev and also tend to have previously used premium old gen Android devices. My previous device (3 years ago but sold in 2013) is still good for this, and I bought My last one for around $40. I dont know if there are any still available, but at $40 off eBay, its less than the Jaycar dongle ($70 ????).

It was a Samsung S4 GT-I9506. I think i have about 3 lying around. It has a removable battery as a bonus. No need to pay someone to install a new battery on an old device. The GPS is borked on old Android devices, but its more than powerful to run most stuff as long as your not playing games. It was premium at the time.

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