Lol agreed. In the last several decades GM has had piss-poor engineering when it comes to sensors and electrical components. This is such a common issue I've replaced several of these crank position sensors on my '03 Grand Prix with the 3800 series II and 233k miles on the engine. Unfortunately, I'm replacing the crank position sensor once again this afternoon. My Crown Vic has over 430k miles on the engine and I've never had to replace a single sensor, computer or electronic controller of any kind. Ford's engines are definitely not as good as GM from a performance and efficiency standpoint but its sure nice to not have to constantly be messing with the supporting equipment for the motor - they just work. Sadly, this will be the last GM product I will ever own and I come from a GM family. Doesn't matter if the engines are mechanically superior if the rest of the supporting components are garbage.

Another sore spot with me is the heater core and fan enclosed in that big black coffin under the dash, on some models, 6 or 10 hour job Grrrrrrr; then on others it is easily accessible from behind the glove box or through the fire wall.

Ditto! Couldn't find the bolt size in the motor manual. This covers the 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP as well.

That's incorrect. They are M6-1 x 75mm. 1/4"x28 will work but is technically incorrect.

@@knightdaleknights44 good to know Thanks.

If only you was closer we would do some wood work on my boat ☺ thanks i try sometimes its harder than it looks to make a helpful how to video but i try .

Well said Ken, "without the head swirling camerawork" I will add no mountain dew guzzling or pizza munching... :)

@@CodytheCarGuy can you feel once its lined up an not aligned?

That's what I'm doing now

Was it the problem? Im having the same issue and this is about the only thing I haven't changed

Did it ?

it could be the Camshaft sensor that was bad as well...Thats wy its a good idea to change both, the Camshaft and cranksaht sensor..they are both next to each other underneath the Pulley..

its a slot on the balancer 3:11, the crank has a raised spot, or key. this way the balancer can only go on 1 way and keeps its from spinning on the crank.

It can also be done without a scan tool but the procedure looked a major pain in the ass

And that belt lol. Looks horrible

yup chaki start it up and drive it around it should clear itself

Yes, you can disconnect battery

They're identical to this engines location

Yes. Did you replace it? Was the issue fixed?

Did you use an ac Delco unit or which one

Check crank and cam sensors or you could have a faulty ignition control module.. these cars can start off the cam sensor if the pcm is still receiving the sync pulse. Ignition and fuel injector timing will be a default amount though.. so you could still have a bad crank sensor or wire in the plug.. also crank and cam sensors connect to the ignition control module, the module has 6 wires that go-to the pcm, 1 wire the pcm uses to tell the ignition module to stop controlling spark and listen to the spark signal the pcm is sending it via the 2nd wire. And the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th wires the ignition module is sending the pcm what the crank and cam sensor signals are . With a scan tool you can see the rpm of each sensor.. the 3800 is also known for the ring on the back of the harmonic balancer to come loose, which could cause a miss or faulty sensor reading. So make sure the bolts that hold the ring to the back of the harmonic balancer are right . So if the ignition module is bad it could be telling the pcm there is no crank signal even though it is receiving one, also you could have an issue with the wires between the crank sensor and ignition module, or between the ignition module and pcm.. there are no other causes

@@markborrmannjr thanks

No

For my '96 Park Avenue, it threw an ignition code.

Glow Oxide I changed the crank sensor and it fixed the issue. 00' Grand Prix GT

yes po330 code

TJ CRIM my impala was going through that .

1/4 x 28 found them in one of the specialty fastener drawers at home depot.