u/antiqueue

I had made a post about a preexisting coolant leak around that area 3 months ago. It had been driving fine with it the whole time , no leaks or coolant drops but I decided to replace it today as a preventative measure. I burped the coolant, and had to use a multi transfer pump a couple times since it kept rising to the top and about to overflow several times. It finally stopped rising and stayed at the right level so I knew I was finished burping the coolant. I had the heater on full blast and the fan on low. I shouldnt have cleaned the old neck when taking the pics to get a good comparison of them.

The seller never told me it wasnt a fuel, I feel like my luck has played out as I was originally going to get a makita ratchet but the seller blocked me. I was expecting this to be the non fuel version and it came with a 2.0 battery. Got this 1/4 fuel ratchet for $100 on marketplace, used but in good condition.

I have a 2020 Mazda6 Grand Touring Reserve with around 64k miles. I noticed that when I shift from Park into Reverse, the engine seems to shake/jump pretty hard. It looks worse than I remember, and I can feel it in the car too.

I took a video of it and attached it here. Does this look normal, or could I be dealing with a bad motor mount or transmission mount?

I’ve also been hearing some dry noise from the front end when changing gears, especially going into Reverse.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.

So I decided to do spark plugs on my 2020 Mazda 6 turbo today thinking it was gonna be a quick job.
With the turbo models you have to pull some of the top intake/cover stuff just to get the 3 ignition coils out. You also had to pull out the black hoses but It was so tight for me even with the flatheads lol.
Anyway I get in there, ignition coils out, plugs out, new ones and then the coils back in. Do you guys put dielectric grease on the white ceramic area of the spark plug or inside the coil boot instead? ev
Then I get to the 4th ignition coil hold-down bolt (8mm head) and that’s where everything went sideways.
It would thread in a couple turns, then get tight and stop. It also would make a loud torquing sound, so thats when I stopped and knew. I removed the last coil screw the same as the previous ones with no issues. I knew it was stripped from the last people who did my plugs. I checked
I tried:
swapping bolts
cleaning the hole
WD-40
hand threading it slow
Nothing helped.
Somewhere in the middle of all that I also managed to drop and lose one of the 8mm bolts completely… still haven’t found it 😭
So I ended up grabbing a Duralast M6-1 Helicoil kit thinking I’d just fix it properly.
That’s when it got even more annoying:
tap wouldn’t start clean, and I was
basically fighting with the black hoses to keep the helicoil tap straight upright in the awkward position.
After messing with it for a while I couldn’t really finish the Helicoil properly, so I just put the original bolt back in to test it…
Somehow it tightened the coil down and it’s not moving or wiggling now.
So now I’m sitting here like:
coil is tight
bolt is holding it
but I didn’t even finish the repair
Not sure if I actually fixed it or just got lucky with whatever threads were still hanging on.
Either way, what was supposed to be a quick spark plug job turned into me fighting an 8mm bolt for hours and losing parts 😭I regret not getting those black hoses off.

I swear every time I wash it , it gets vandalized by these punks the next day