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Yeah, what he said, if there is rust it might be the splines that go out, once everything explodes than you are good to keep it running in fwd. You shouldn't have any problem but it is highly unpleasant during winter if you have snow. No need to remove it, i removed mine because i wanted to...

yeah sounds computer related although i can't recall seeing a problem on an ecu on these cars.

so do i, seems like the fuel in the fuel lines turns into fumes or you don't have any fuel pressure. Could be a faulty fuel pump or hose inside the tank. Check out the manual and see if there is a way to monitorize the fuel pressure

wow that sucks, thanks for the feedback, this is not an easy job. Lesson learned i guess for the next time... Don't let that discourage you from working on your own car, when you do it right, it is very gratifying. On an other note, i don't see how it could have bent a rod, maybe you have some...

that's for a gen 1, he has a gen2

hmm didn't know about that one, if you get it fixed, take some pics for us to see where it was leaking

if it was the water pump it would not leak on the floor but in the engine oil which you could not see unless you check your oil. First time i hear about the freeze plug but i would try and get t fixed. If it is in a bad spot you might need to get the engine removed. Mazda doesn't have anything...

i don't know where you are located but here in Canada i would say the 07 on the market are between 4k and 5k canadian$ but they all have less milleage than mine. And even at those prices, i am not even sure they are selling. The weather destroys the car around here, after 12 years, they really...

thanks i will look into that

jal142, what is that test you are talking about? Not sure i know about it.

my awd is dead, it starts to show rust in some spot, need a new windshield, new driver door hinges, probably new A/C compressor since it is leaking a little bit and now the head gasket... Taking out the exhaust manifolds is going to be a pain in the butt, all the cars get rusty around here with...

well after all i do have some small debris in the overflow but is it because of the head gasket or because the car is 200k miles old... I beleive it must be head gasket since i really can't see any sign of coolant in the oil and there is no outside leak... I guess this is the end of my CX9...

overflow tank is clean and can't see anything special on the dipstick, oil is very clean, that is why i am confused! I guess i will try to drain a little bit of oil and see if there is water in the bottom of the pan

I am losing coolant in the expansion tank and can't find any leak anywhere so my guess is water pump. The thing is i don't see any sign of coolant in the oil, for those who had a bad water pump, were you able to tell from the oil? Usually the oil gets foamy and you can see some white residue in...

exactly what i said, transmission still works, only the splines and PTU are shot, car can be driven in 2wd

well i have yet to see a transmission that was fried because of the PTU, at least i haven't read anything about that here, when people change the transmission because of a bad PTU it is because the splines are sheared in the main diff which will only affect the awd system. Have you had a...

well if you buy it awd it will eventually becomes fwd so that doesn't change anything :)

well i don't know where you are but have you tried to see if the awd is working? Try to find a slippy surface and do a quick acceleration, if one wheel spins and you get a flashing awd sysmbol in your dash then the awd doesn't work. If the car is on the lift and they put it in drive and the...

i don't know how the inner parts work but it seems like it is just a magnet that connects the driveshaft to the rear diff when the magnet is engaged. Not sure what you mean by solenoid...

there is no connector there, what gives up is the junction, look at my picture on post #14