gt_swagger
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- 2005 Mazda6 Sport Hatchback (3.0L V6)
Howdy all. Long time lurker, first time poster.
My 6 has been having some shift issues at the high end ... 4th through 6th ... particularly when you punch it. It is a dead match to the description of Service Bulletin TSB 05-016/06 ( http://www.6crew.com/files/tsb/05-016-06-1725.pdf ) ... long story short it will require a new valve body. Given that this has probably been less than kind to the clutch and it already has 100K miles on it, a remanufactured transmission is the route I'm going to take. (I'm more than a little pissed Mazda quietly issued a service bulletin instead of a recall on this.)
Since I already have to have the engine taken out of the car completely ... this is probably a great time to do other work to the engine at somewhat reduced cost. Friends of mine who work on other cars say it would be a good time to replace the water pump, chain drive tensioner, and a few other things. My question to those more familiar directly with Mazdas and the 6 is ... what other work should I go ahead and do while it is in for such a major surgery?
My 6 has been having some shift issues at the high end ... 4th through 6th ... particularly when you punch it. It is a dead match to the description of Service Bulletin TSB 05-016/06 ( http://www.6crew.com/files/tsb/05-016-06-1725.pdf ) ... long story short it will require a new valve body. Given that this has probably been less than kind to the clutch and it already has 100K miles on it, a remanufactured transmission is the route I'm going to take. (I'm more than a little pissed Mazda quietly issued a service bulletin instead of a recall on this.)
Since I already have to have the engine taken out of the car completely ... this is probably a great time to do other work to the engine at somewhat reduced cost. Friends of mine who work on other cars say it would be a good time to replace the water pump, chain drive tensioner, and a few other things. My question to those more familiar directly with Mazdas and the 6 is ... what other work should I go ahead and do while it is in for such a major surgery?
