Copy Paste from my intro on another protege forum:
Someone has offered me a 2002 Protege 5 needing a clutch replacement in trade for one of my spare vehicles... I have no issues doing a clutch, but as I'm unfamiliar with the platform what other things should I look over prior to accepting their terms? For example one car I've had is notorious for rust where the trailing arms mount, etc.
Just looking to avoid coming out of this with a pile of scrap because a strut is known to blow through weak trunk supports or something along those lines.
From preliminary research the clutch looks like an 8+ hour job on this car, I'll do it at my leisure as I have a few other cars..
I offered to trade a car that runs but isn't pretty just to see if this person asking me to replace their clutch would bite and a few weeks later now they've asked me if I'd still do it... I figure theirs is better visually so with a couple hundred invested and some time I'll eventually come out nicely should the rest of the car be in decent enough shape.
Post from last night:
Well I've acquired it... from research it looks like these cars love to rust out...
Good news is that it's not the clutch... I think it's the bad EGR/O2 sensor combo as I limped it home and the clutch grabbed fine.. fortunately I lived only about 2 miles from where it came from... worst case scenario I had a truck I could have brought it home with..
So now I have to purchase an O2 sensor. I believe I located a low cost option of http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-O2-Oxyg...zda|Model:Protege&hash=item565aa424bf&vxp=mtr but I would appreciate somebody confirming fitment as Mazda is a new platform for me and I don't have their interchange charts memorized yet.
Also if anyone is aware a low cost EGR replacement it would be appreciated... I'm hoping once I replace these two things.. as well as a general tune up and brake job I'll be good to go.
Someone has offered me a 2002 Protege 5 needing a clutch replacement in trade for one of my spare vehicles... I have no issues doing a clutch, but as I'm unfamiliar with the platform what other things should I look over prior to accepting their terms? For example one car I've had is notorious for rust where the trailing arms mount, etc.
Just looking to avoid coming out of this with a pile of scrap because a strut is known to blow through weak trunk supports or something along those lines.
From preliminary research the clutch looks like an 8+ hour job on this car, I'll do it at my leisure as I have a few other cars..
I offered to trade a car that runs but isn't pretty just to see if this person asking me to replace their clutch would bite and a few weeks later now they've asked me if I'd still do it... I figure theirs is better visually so with a couple hundred invested and some time I'll eventually come out nicely should the rest of the car be in decent enough shape.
Post from last night:
Well I've acquired it... from research it looks like these cars love to rust out...
Good news is that it's not the clutch... I think it's the bad EGR/O2 sensor combo as I limped it home and the clutch grabbed fine.. fortunately I lived only about 2 miles from where it came from... worst case scenario I had a truck I could have brought it home with..
So now I have to purchase an O2 sensor. I believe I located a low cost option of http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-O2-Oxyg...zda|Model:Protege&hash=item565aa424bf&vxp=mtr but I would appreciate somebody confirming fitment as Mazda is a new platform for me and I don't have their interchange charts memorized yet.
Also if anyone is aware a low cost EGR replacement it would be appreciated... I'm hoping once I replace these two things.. as well as a general tune up and brake job I'll be good to go.
