Recent content by AnthonyP5

The other weird thing ive never worked on is those butterfly valve things. The green one only opens when its above 5k rpms other that that it doesnt move. The white one seems to move but it taps alot and is kinda loud, like if i was to have a valve tap. if i move the lever on it it stops but...

Very nice the miles makes me happy knowing they last. This one has 130k miles on it. Never got stumped on a problem from a car before usually you can run the codes fix the problem. This car though has a mind of its own lol. I was thinking maybe egr is clogged so i need to clean it but that...

Reading about the symptoms of a jumped timing belt. Would it run perfect above 3k rpms? seems at that high of a rpm it runs and sounds normal other than its 3k + rpms lol. I would think a jumped belt would run like crap in any rpms range

I was going to check the belt yesterday but it started to storm. I was checking the belt cover on the side but that looks like it may take some time. So ill pull the valve cover off and check it that way.

Oh and just recent the idle now without reving it up started to bounce like it would act like its going to cut off it would idle around 1k for awhile than dip as you hear the engine die than goes back up. its not a constant thing it does this about every min or 2

The codes was p0340, which keeps coming back after changing the sensor 3 times. p0123 but hasn't came back on since changing the tps.P0171 that one also hasn't come back on.

So my Protege has been running weird. Lets start off by explaining what happend. I took my kids to get ice-cream and the car was running perfect, after leaving the car seemed to have no power and was jumpy between 2-3k rpms. Its a Auto. So after reading about the problem and others having...