First off...
Hi, I'm James Nater. I'm new to the forums. I was surprised to find a site that had a 1st generation protege forum. Apparently the protege is a real sleeper I guess, I figured that after browsing around the forums for the past hour. I love cars and racing. I'm an avid skateboarder as well. Anyway, I grew up in Japan for about 7 years and was surrounded by the Drift and Touge scene and thats how I first got into cars. Because of that, I've grown to be more of a Nissan guy, but this Mazda has more go then I thought it would, so I was pretty psyched about that when I first got it.
This Black 1993 Mazda Protege LX is my first car. I bought it at a used car dealership about 3 months ago. I haven't had any problems with it until now. (Besides the clutch being a little sketchy, it tends to do what happens if you don't ease in the clutch at 1st gear {go stop go stop go stop, etc} in 2nd and 3rd gear sometimes if I slow down a bit or go over a tiny bump on the road keeping the rpms steady around 2500rpms). Also, I replaced the air filter one day and accidently tore the air intake hose... haha. So I sealed it up with Hot Glue and duct tape that thing shut. haha. (It's just temporary for now).
Now that I've pretty much set the stage, here's my problem; There's a coolant leak somewhere in my car, I can't seem to find where the leak is coming from. It drips alot between the oil pan and I think the water pump (I'll take a picture of it ASAP and post it here). Do any of you have any ideas of where the leak is coming from? And how can I stop/seal the leak properly? I'm still new with all this stuff as I've only driven cars fast and never really bothered to do the work myself; I always just brought cars (actually my friend's skyline in Japan) to a shop he always got over-charged for everything. I don't want that to happen to me, so I want to do it most of the work myself. I don't now how the leak started or anything because it happened after my dad took the car out one night...
So if you could give me any kind of input, it would be greatly appretiated. Thanks in advance.
Hi, I'm James Nater. I'm new to the forums. I was surprised to find a site that had a 1st generation protege forum. Apparently the protege is a real sleeper I guess, I figured that after browsing around the forums for the past hour. I love cars and racing. I'm an avid skateboarder as well. Anyway, I grew up in Japan for about 7 years and was surrounded by the Drift and Touge scene and thats how I first got into cars. Because of that, I've grown to be more of a Nissan guy, but this Mazda has more go then I thought it would, so I was pretty psyched about that when I first got it.
This Black 1993 Mazda Protege LX is my first car. I bought it at a used car dealership about 3 months ago. I haven't had any problems with it until now. (Besides the clutch being a little sketchy, it tends to do what happens if you don't ease in the clutch at 1st gear {go stop go stop go stop, etc} in 2nd and 3rd gear sometimes if I slow down a bit or go over a tiny bump on the road keeping the rpms steady around 2500rpms). Also, I replaced the air filter one day and accidently tore the air intake hose... haha. So I sealed it up with Hot Glue and duct tape that thing shut. haha. (It's just temporary for now).
Now that I've pretty much set the stage, here's my problem; There's a coolant leak somewhere in my car, I can't seem to find where the leak is coming from. It drips alot between the oil pan and I think the water pump (I'll take a picture of it ASAP and post it here). Do any of you have any ideas of where the leak is coming from? And how can I stop/seal the leak properly? I'm still new with all this stuff as I've only driven cars fast and never really bothered to do the work myself; I always just brought cars (actually my friend's skyline in Japan) to a shop he always got over-charged for everything. I don't want that to happen to me, so I want to do it most of the work myself. I don't now how the leak started or anything because it happened after my dad took the car out one night...
So if you could give me any kind of input, it would be greatly appretiated. Thanks in advance.
Comment