hi new here..my son has a Mazda 6 2008 with 4banger
he is not very mechanically inclined and I am an old school guy
points etc.
anyway he was on a trip over the past weekend and he called and said his engine was making noise and held the phone to it and it was clanking away. so I told him to check the oil, which was basically empty, he added two quarts and that brought it back near normal but still clanking.
so I went with truck and trailer and got him and car..well got home and found oil that seemed like it hadn't been changed in 20000 miles or so but it had no more than 6000 on it, so I topped it off and started engine and tried to pinpoint noise with stethoscope and it sems to be top endm..whew at first I thought it was bottom end (well dont know which is better) anyway I noticed oil in what I will call a cam end cap looks like a freezeout plug. ..so I continue and pull off plastic engine cover and there seems to be.a leak in the valley there ..I am goin to try to attach pics..I read that we should have had the valves adjusted at 60k at present about 70k..should it be that loud???
also throwing a cat converter code po421
he is not very mechanically inclined and I am an old school guy
points etc.
anyway he was on a trip over the past weekend and he called and said his engine was making noise and held the phone to it and it was clanking away. so I told him to check the oil, which was basically empty, he added two quarts and that brought it back near normal but still clanking.
so I went with truck and trailer and got him and car..well got home and found oil that seemed like it hadn't been changed in 20000 miles or so but it had no more than 6000 on it, so I topped it off and started engine and tried to pinpoint noise with stethoscope and it sems to be top endm..whew at first I thought it was bottom end (well dont know which is better) anyway I noticed oil in what I will call a cam end cap looks like a freezeout plug. ..so I continue and pull off plastic engine cover and there seems to be.a leak in the valley there ..I am goin to try to attach pics..I read that we should have had the valves adjusted at 60k at present about 70k..should it be that loud???
also throwing a cat converter code po421
