Recent content by Asudef

Is the PCV valve meant to just sit in the hole? It seems to me like mine isn't as tight after a VC gasket job but I never checked it before. That's the thing that plugs into the middle of the valve cover in OP's step after the plugs and coil packs.

It runs so rough that it has trouble keeping idle and stalls or very nearly so making it really difficult to move the car if at all. This is a 2001 2.0 LX FS-DE with 170k and never needed major service for anything, never threw a CEL or anything in it's life. A little backstory: No dash...

Inherited my sister's 2001 Mazda Protege LX 2.0 now at 170k. I was in the car when it rolled off the lot. Never a problem or needed major service until a recently. Now it doesn't run :( Hopefully its a minor fix. Have always liked the way the car handled and glad to have it in my hands but...

I may have done the same thing but all I did was wash a cold engine with a spray bottle around the valve cover and poured water off to clean the soapy water. Now it will start and as long as I rev it ~2000 rpms it will run but any lower and it stumbles and dies. Thing is, it drove for 400+...