Recent content by ray916mn

Hood, Oil Change and Tires Got a hood on Friday to replace my hood which had begun to rust on the front edge. $95 bucks and in very decent shape for a color match hood. Installed it on Saturday. I love www.car-parts.com Got a way over due oil change done today and they made me aware that I had...

I think I've got a two part problem. I couldn't find a post attributing the ultra high idle to the EGR valve, but found a post by PR5owner here that described a 4K idle from leaving out part of the IAC. Bingo. Pulled the IAC and indeed the part was missing. Looked around near my work bench and...

Thanks for the suggestion. Never saw the steel gasket, assumed it stuck to the motor, but couldn't feel the edge of a gasket either. Are you speaking from experience? Tried to buy one from the local NAPA store, when I got my carb cleaner but they didn't have one. Used Form A Gasket instead...

Well I cleaned my EGR and IAC today. Took the throttle body off to the get the EGR , so I cleaned it as well. Had a CEL and the characteristic crappy idle before starting the procedure. Plugs are recent. EGR was frozen open and after liberal use of carb/throttle body cleaner and working the EGR...

Installed Polk db571 speakers in the front to match the db651 speakers I installed in the rear last week. Great mid range imaging. These ended up sounding pretty good. Unfortunately now that the speakers sound good enough to turn the volume up a bit, the short comings of the factory subwoofer...

5th Day - Ridding the Car of DPO (Dreaded Previous Owner) Ahhh figured out and fixed the noise from the right rear suspension. Turned out to be the e-brake adjuster jingling. Figured it out by smacking the rear tire with a mallet and hearing the jingle. Lightly applied the e-brake and it...

Change over from winter gas to summer gas.

4th Day - Ridding the Car of DPO (Dreaded Previous Owner) Cleaned the EGR and the CEL is gone. Replaced the plugs. Back to running great. Installed the rear speakers. Bought the front speakers. Hopefully they'll be here by the end of the week. Still can't figure out what is causing the...

Bad wheel sensor. When a wheel sensor starts failing it can start giving false reading (ie wheel is locked and skidding). This causes the ABS to cycle and you get really crappy braking. Most manufacturers have a special scan tool to diagnose which wheel sensor is the problem, or you can...

Thanks for the words of encouragement and offer of the speakers. The stockers are what's in the car, but after having a bunch of the door panels off and on a few times, the sight of wizzer cones is really beginning to get to me as well as the mediocre sound.

3rd Day - Ridding the Car of DPO (Dreaded Previous Owner) So today I thought the end of mechanical stuff would be in sight, but then, CEL with rough idle. Oh well, back to that later, Go by a couple of salvage yards and pick up a rear door vent window to replace the duct taped piece of card...

From the Troy Lee Designs site... Close.... Ray

www.car-parts.com Depending on where you are, I'd expect no more than $1300 total, to buy a used engine and have it installed. I just bought a P5 with a blown up motor and got a motor for under $600 with less than 50k miles, total installed cost under $1K. If you're so inclined, you could...

I need the little button which covers the shift release hole in the shift surround on a Protege 5. Mazda doesn't sell this part separately.... Ray

2nd Day - Ridding the Car of DPO (Dreaded Previous Owner) Today it was on to more of the same as Friday. Going through and figuring out and addressing the niggling things that the DPO left. Hmmm A/C doesn't work?!?! Fuse in the inside box is good, fuse under the hood is MISSING!. Put a fuse...