Use the brake fluid to push out the pistons, leave the pads in and leave one of the calipers on the disc if you have 2 . C-clamp can be useful. There is usually crusty build up in the seal grooves and you will need to scrape them clean with a pick. You can use water to rinse everything. The master cylinder has 2 holes…

Now get Ford to lend you a Transit Connect and take that for a drive.

They also are not usually able to turn as high rpm as a gasoline motor and make less HP as a result.

All fun and games till Porsche showed up with Penske.

Ford owned some of Mazda for quite a while, the engine has been used in many Fords. My 2003 Focus, 2005 Ranger, 2007 Mazda 3 have a 2.3, my daughter’s Focus has a 2.0, My 2015 Transit Connect,built in Turkey, has a 2.5. Great motor. The brakes in my Mazda are stamped FoMoCo.

The Mazda does not use shims, but has different thickness buckets. Book says to audibly check every 75,000 miles. 219,000 on mine and sounds fine.

The Mazda does not use shims, but has different thickness buckets. Book says to audibly check every 75,000 miles. 219,000 on mine and sounds fine.

Mazda 3 or any 4 cylinder is about the easiest to do. That said, changed the plugs on my Mazda 3 at 60K, looked at them at 180K, still running at 210K. Car gets the same 29 mpg it always has. Change the Mobil 1 when it has used a quart, which now takes 13K. Have looked at the air filter several times, but can’t…

My first car was a new 1969 Z/28 that I sold with a connecting rod sticking out of the block of the 5th engine that broke while my girlfriend was driving. We were on a date and saw it in a used car lot, verified it was mine and bought it. Drove it through New England to Montreal in December of 1974 on our honeymoon…

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Motorcycle Aerodynamics | Canada Moto Guide

QCGoose is right, bike has no aero advantage.

Have been driving an average of 20,000 miles/year in western NY in the snow belt off Lake Erie for 50 years without ever owning a car with more than 2 wheels driving. Snow tires on 4 extra wheels for the winter. Had a Chevy Vega with posi traction that would plow snow. Anything you could drive into, it would back out…

Stewart is a former Air Force Base and now the C-17 flies out of there.

Uh, you forgot motoGP.

It is called lift throttle oversteer, the thing that Porsches were famous for. My Mazda 3 loves to be driven hard into a turn, lift the throttle and the back end comes right around and then nail the throttle and drive out of the turn.

I changed the oil every 5000 miles on my ‘07 Mazda 3 until it hit 100,000. Changed Mobil 1 every 15,000 the next 4 times, but had to add 1 quart on the 4th change. Now change oil after it has burned a quart, which takes 13,000 miles. Car now has 219,000 miles on it, have changed the plugs once, alternator, clutch and…

Thankfully

Here in the northeast, hare scrambles are usually run on local motocross tracks with some local woods added in and run in the late fall. Maybe 4 or 5 miles a lap. Run for 2 hours, different classes start at different times. Usually muddy around here at that time of year.