Do your own work?

[scofflaw]

Do many of you do the work on your car yourself? How are these vehicles to work on. <P>Scoff.

[cjthor]

I try to do everything myself. The car is pretty easy to work on. I have changed my driveshafts twice, timing belt twice, brakes, valve cover gasket, belts...blah blah blah. But...I am pretty skilled at working on cars. I am sure you could figure out how to change your brakes and stuff but all depends on the tools at hand. Hope this helps..

[scofflaw]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by cjthor:<BR><STRONG>I try to do everything myself. The car is pretty easy to work on. I have changed my driveshafts twice, timing belt twice, brakes, valve cover gasket, belts...blah blah blah. But...I am pretty skilled at working on cars. I am sure you could figure out how to change your brakes and stuff but all depends on the tools at hand. Hope this helps..</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>In my early years I rebuilt a FIAT Spyder engine. Do my own brakes, change oil pumps on my Accord, do maintenance and that kinda stuff.<P>I made an offer on a car tonight, I'll see if the buyer accepts or not. <P>When I looked at the engine, everything appear to be pretty squished in there. Is it easy to get in from underneath, or does a lot of that stuff pull off the top?<P>I figure it will need a timing belt, and I think I can do that no problem. There is a shop manual CD available on the web (if anyone knows if it is any good, let me know) With the manual and advice from this forum, I figure I can handle it.<P>Geez, I getting excited here. I hope she accepts the offer.<P>Scoff.

[Shades]

I do my own maintenance... oil change, brakes, etc... I do what I can without owning any tools.<P>I recently did my distributor O-ring by myself when Mazda wanted about $100.<P>My brother is apprenticing at some garage so I get some stuff done there.

[marshmallow15]

i do my own maintenance. so far, ive done a c/f hood for an 89 awd turbo impulse, ive done a ram-air intake setup and a short-air intake and im currently working on a polished aluminum tube for my mx3, ive done interior upholstery and reskinning/painting myself, installed my speakers and new wiring, installed dynamat, installed neon lighting with switch, another switch controlling radar detector and soon my lcd screen, ported header, ported throttlebody, weight reduction, redding taillights, soon a lightbar taillight mod, installed headunit, installed silicone hose kit.<P>i do a lot of stuff myself, but since ive gotten a few products that'll need professional work such as my front bumper and soon my lowering springs, i'll have to finally pay someone to work on my car....unless i can get access to a spring compressor. =D

[MX-West Car Club]

I try to do whatever I can when I have the time, if I don't I'll have my mechanic down the block from where I work do it for me. You can say that my garage has become the offical MX-West Car Club garage. Besides regular maintenance and replacing parts here and there, I've also done 3 Mazdaspeed Strut swaps, lowering spring swaps, helped with 2 engine swaps(not in my garage), the usual stereo install, intakes, indiglo guages, NX Nitrous Kit install, install Auto Meter guages. There's probably a some more that I can't think of right now. If you ever need any help, give us a shout.

[pizzamr2]

I don't do jack.... =)<P>well actually, i do what i can.<BR>I have a mechanic 2 doors down, so he helps me fix my car.<BR>and with the mx-3, we havn't had it long enough to really do anyhting.<P>So far what's done is the basic intake, up grade the audio, the front strut bar.<BR>(all the easy stuff) <P>next would be the indiglo guages...<P>for my mr2, i try to do as much as i can..<BR>mainly audio stuff...<BR>try fitting 8 speakers in a mr2 <P>it's possible...

[Taras]

Kevin, you forgot to mention that car chop that was hanging out your garage for a while <P>Taras

[marshmallow15]

hey mx-west car club how easy was it to lower your car yourself?

[MX-West Car Club]

Hey Marshmallow15, it was pretty easy. The main tools you need are the spring compressors, deep sockets, torque wrench, regular wrenchs, a shop manual and a second pair of hands to help. The fronts are easy and pretty quick to do, I found that it was a bit of a b@#$h re-installing the back struts back in. Took some time to align the bottom holes to fit the bolts back in.

[MX-West Car Club]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Kevin, you forgot to mention that car chop that was hanging out your garage for a while <BR>Taras <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Oh yeah, I forgot about that chopped front end that sat in my garage for about 1/2 a year.