Recent content by Jmaz

I'm not aware of any relationship between the 2 temperatures.

Bummer. Thanks for the heads- up. It's probably going to be real joy replacing the radiator. Plastic. I remember when doing the job on my aforementioned 3800-2, the plastic coolant elbow crumbled and I had to dig pieces out of the lower intake and the connecting belt tensioner bracket that the...

You mention Rockauto for the gasket kit. I don't know what brand you ordered, but from the "what it's worth" department, years ago when doing the lower intake gaskets on my Buick 3800-2 I got OEM GM gaskets from the dealer to minimize any problems. Even back then I was reading about Fel-Pro...

That's not just a leak but a leak with definitely some pressure behind it. Barring a cracked head, the only 2 other things I can think of is if the head gasket blew outward from an oil passage area or maybe related to the VVT actuator for the exhaust camshaft which uses oil pressure and is...

I assume you checked to see if the oil filter is tight since it's on the passenger side of the car and on the bottom side of the car where the oil is.

My small OBD scanner has a temp1 and temp2. As far as I can tell, temp1 is the engine coolant temperature and temp2 is the coolant temperature leaving the heater core as measured by the sensor on the heater hose "manifold" on the passenger side firewall that both hoses attach to. Monitoring...

These low levels from the factory aren't something recent. I've been on this board for some time and remember reading about this IIRC 6-8 years ago, maybe longer. Then there's the discussion about underfill of transmission fluid, coolant (low overflow bottle level) and engine oil level on the...

Yea, check out the one's about the old veteran being harassed by younger military dudes. Some of these "feel good" videos are enough to gag. No warm and fuzzy feelings here. LOL

You bring up a good point about the "heart attack" and I've had (or installed myself) gauges in some prior vehicles, so I'm not criticizing your choices. And I've actually thought about adding some sort of readouts for different parameters(engine and trans temps and oil pressure being the main...

I'll plead ignorance here as I don't remember much being posted in the past. My understanding is that some (must be a minority I'm guessing--never see much about it anywhere else) heater cores plugged and Mazda attributed it to corrosion and increased the amount of "something" in the revised...

Going by the headline it seemed the usual sensationalized youtube stuff but then it seemed plausible after listening to the reasons. Guess I'm too gullible then. Welp, gotta go buy a bridge some guy wants to sell me. MODS: delete this if you choose so as to not waste members time clicking on...

Saw this and decided to post this as we drive ( or consider purchasing) other brands) beside Mazda. Right up front --- Mazda is not included and after viewing this we should feel fortunate we own Mazda. The scary part mentioned is that these models can't be registered/registration renewed...

Never gave it a thought. I drained a full gallon from the radiator petcock before changing the hoses.

I don't know either and I'm not particularly concerned for the following reasoning. Last summer when changing the thermostat and radiator hoses, the 4 year old Zerex from the previous service was clean and no buildup/deposits inside the hoses either. Prior to that ,the original factory fill was...

Can't see the coolant making any sort of difference in operating temperature since that's the thermostats job and have no idea what the coolant temperature is at any time unless I plug in my scanner, which isn't very often. Don't have any gauge readouts of any sort other than what came stock on...