Recent content by belo

just want to confirm that the 03 egr with the shield will work on my 02 p5. dont want to mess around with the canadian version as my car is on its last legs. also does anyone know what the difference between the standard motor t-series (cheaper) and the non t-series...

fixed. last night after tracing all vacuum lines i still found no issues. did see that the tube to the manifold from the air intake wasn't very tight so i clamped it, but no luck. after some more time trying to find the hissing sound i was able to silence it by pushing down on the #1 injector...

shouldn't be leaking anymore. new o-rings and no fuel present like before.

i did not purge the line, as it was leaking already, but honestly it's all going to the engine (with air) anyhow and doesn't recirculate so it should just burn off and then be fine if there was air in there. i'm no mechanic, but that's just my thoughts. i did not pull any lines when doing the...

the start isnt anything like my 09 pontiac G8GT haha but it starts. little slower than i would like. it has 140k on it. it should have honestly been canned a while ago as its rusting but i just started a job requiring a long commute and until we move i want to drive the mazda. it's in good...

that's interesting. i might try that using the intake vac hose...

i tried the carb cleaner trick. no luck but i'm not sure i check all the right spots. the egr is probably 40k old. it has been replaced once. cleaned about 10k ago. plug wires are also 10k. the intake tube is a short ram. not sure if it matters, but when i seafoamed i saw no smoke other than...

i bought the ebay intake to replace a broken stock tube, and this problem just started up after the intake had been on for a while. i dont know. I'm worried too that it might be the intake gasket. is there anyway i can diagnose this myself?

have had a evap code for awhile. i believe it was from a leaking #2 injector. fixed the leak with new o-rings. then i started getting the stalling, bad idle and random misfire. coil packs were replaced ~7k ago and fixed it the first time, but not evap code. had replaced coil packs in spring...

maybe not, but i should still get acc power and a slow crank. i get nothing. going to test the battery at autozone today. thinking it could also be the ign switch...

So after a week of sitting my 02 mazda protege5 would not power up. nothing, not even a slow crank or interior lights. so i figure its the battery. hook up the charger/tender and it flashes red (not connected properly). i disconnect the battery from the car and the green light flashes (battery...

the 2nd cat is blown out. i looked at it. i would go with the non-fowler but the bracket is broke and i just figure the best thing to do is replace it. there's a magnaflow cat for $240 plus gaskets from advance autoparts...

I searched first to no avail. My cat blew out on my beater 02 protege when it was misfiring. The hangers now broken and its hitting the bracket and making a lot of noise. Going to bight the bullet and replace the cat (so i can pass inspection as well). But... Do i need to replace the pre-cat...

haha, i was going to ask the same question. you should will still be fine if you didn't, but it would have been better to replace plugs after seafoaming. some do it everytime, eventhough seafoam does not state you need to.

plug wires are like $26 from rockauto. pm me if you need the 5% off code as well.