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- 03' Mazda Protege 5
You get that Progress rear sway bar in yet Tylor?
What have you done to your P5 today?
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your also gonna want to put a little bit of grease in the bushing to help prevent noise and binding.
Hmm... today I woke up early and decided to check my cam gear timing. To my surpirsed it was all jacked up. So jacked up that I'm surprised my motor has been even running for the past year since the shop put it in.
I spun the crank twice and lined it up TDC and the Intake cam was in the position the Exhaust cam was supposed to be in. And the Exhuast cam was just way off. I figured give the crank another spin and check the cam gear timing again. Now neither of them lined up. Gave it another spin and it was back to where it was prior.
After confirming that the cam gear timing was all screwed. I proceded to the shop that put the motor in my car. Told them about the cam gear timing and they said they would fix it at no charge since they are responsible for it. Unfortunantly I wasn't able to do it today because of work and school.
They did ask me how it was supposed to line up. I had an extra set of stock cam gears that I keep in my trunk just incase I need to jack up the car. Yea I roll the front tires on top of them so it lifts the front up so I can fit a jack. And yes my car is low enough to where a low rider jack can't even get under there.
Well since I had the stock cam gears at hand I showed them how they are supposed to look when it's aligned properly (crank@TDC, Intake Mark Lined up with Head, Exhaust Mark Lined up with Head, and Intake and Exhaust Mark Facing each other). They were questionable of my knowledge since the stock cam gears have three marks on them. So I busted out my Macbook Pro and opened up the service manual that I downloaded from flotopical.net and showed them how it was supposed to be.
All in all I'm very surprised the car even runs, and runs as well as it does. What also suprises me is that having the cam gears so off that I didn't bend any valves or cause any serious damage(that I know of). Well been running the car like this for almost a year now. Car runs strong except at high RPM's it starts to bog a little(sometimes) and the dreaded P0300 code that never goes away. I'm taking it in tommorrow after school and there going to fix it for me. Now I'm debating if I should have them put the stock cam gears back in and take out my SR cam gears cuz I need some cash.
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- 03' Mazda Protege 5
Yah, I got your PM. I was more talking about if you installed it yet but it does not sound like it. But yes, you use your stock bolts
pics damn it haha
I will...when i get home...don't have the cam here.
Nah, havn't installed yet. I was waiting till i took the car in to get new endlinks instead of trying to fight with the rusted POS ones on there now.
So, hopefully this weekend i can get em on, cause the mechanic threw endlinks on the work order as well
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Yes, pics please..............& order info
yeah i thought about it i bought a case cause the eclipse uses 5w20 and i bought for that and tried it in the proty. when you say runs through you means burns right through right...
i had a ?. a while back there was talk of alternatives to a big brake kit. i know you can swap to the msp brake set up: getting new calipers and rotors and pads, but i also thought i heard something about maybe the 6 cause they would bolt up the same and those rotors are even bigger... is any of this true cause i am tired of looking at these elf size brakes through my wheels
Manual states either 5W30 or 10W30 depending on the climate. 5W30 is less viscous at cold startups so it is recommended for colder climates. I know a lot of people will switch between both depending on the time of the year. Once warm, they both have the same viscosity however. I didn't even know they made a 10W40. I only really burn through oil at startup and that's with a 10W so 10W40 wouldn't really help me too much. Do they make a 20W40 or something? Might be too thick in the cold weather but it should help my consumption a little in the warmer months.
Yeah, the thinner, less viscous oil at startup just shoots right by the valve or turbo seals (haven't determined which yet). I can hold a paper towel behind my tailpipe on cold startups and it will have little oil spots all over it.
