Monthly Archives: March 2014

Hard Starting Part 2

On Friday, I replaced the injectors. The car definitely starts better. I still need to get it tuned right, I’m having a lot of trouble getting it right. I’m open to suggestions.

Sunday Dwduc from Colorado Mazda Club and his friend helped me bend the cat pipe so it lines up right and stops causing an exhaust leak. I still need to replace the studs at the manifold to down pipe with ones that actually fit the car right.

I also still need to fix the drive shaft (one I brought in is not fixable) and fix the negative camber on the driver’s side. The camber bolt I purchased does not fit.

Drive Shaft

I dropped my extra drive shaft off at Driveline Services in Colorado Springs yesterday to have the u-joints replaced and the shaft balanced. I also picked up the output shaft seal two days ago. I just got a call from Driveline Services, my other drive shaft is completely shot. The joints are ovaled out.

I’m going to need to just work with the one I have in the car right now until I can afford to replace it.

Hard Starting Part 1

I’ve been struggling to get the car to run right. I continue to have trouble getting the car to start after it has sat. I tried tuning it but nothing seems to help.  I’ve narrowed part of my problem down to my injectors leaking. I had these injectors cleaned a couple of years ago but the car sat for almost a year and a half during the painting process with no fuel stabilizer and the painter started the car and moved it around the shop. The bad fuel in turn clogged the injectors again.

I sent my extra injectors out for a cleaning to RC Engineering, I should get them back by the end of this week. I also received an intake gasket set, exhaust gaskets, and a camber cam bolt kit. The Mazda brand output shaft seal should be here today and I plan to have the extra driveshaft worked on this week.

I needed the camber cam bolt kit to help offset the 5% of negative camber that I have on my driver’s site front wheel. I assume it is from the leftover of the previous accident.

I’m planning the get the work all done on the car this weekend. I’m really tired of the injectors leaking and flooding the car. I’m also hoping to get the exhaust leak fixed this weekend or next week.