bmass84
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- Jun 10, 2010
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- Location
- taft, ca
- Vehicle Year
- 1994
- Make / Model
- Mazda
- Engine Size
- 2.3L
- Transmission
- Manual
ok well, my 1997 2.3l has been having a problem that I cannot figure out. First off runnin down the highway I will start to hear/feel a tick along with a slight hesitation. It will keep doing it till until I take it out of gear and coast to idle rpm. Then I throw it in 3rd an take off just fine. At first I just poured in some injector cleaner and when it would happen it would kick out a huge plume of smoke. It doesn't kick smoke anymore but it still ticks! Also last week I broke down and bought a k&n intake kit for it because my stock had uncountable holes and it seems there are no stock intakes for 4cyl left in socal. After I installed the intake I checked over everything for correct installtion and make sure I had no leaks. Fired it up and it ran like a bat outta hell(warm). Started next morning with irregular idle and it would die everytime I would stop or slow down. Any ideas there?