Ok I have been loosing oil lately sometimes at a rapid rate sometimes slowly ... bloomin typical, anyway I was under the bonnet today and noticed the rear Rocker cover was all oily all over the gasket area. Can another V6 owner have a look at theirs and see if its the same please. Theres no oil on the top and its not leaking underneath as far as I can see.


2nd question how big a job is it to replace..... BIG I expect ..

Cheers

If its just the rocker gasket, should be fairly easy, although you'll have remove that intake thingy you've got to do it!!

It's a known problem - the rocker gaskets are some kind of rubber that hardens and cracks with heat and time. Mine does it.
I should think changing the front gasket is easy enough but the rear must be a bit of a faff....

The front gasket takes about 20minutes, half an hour tops... The rear gasket will take up to 2 hours, you might aswell do the IM gaskets aswell cause its gotta come off. you have to remove all of the hoses and pipes connected to it so make sure you got some labels handy.

I recommend cleaning your throttle body while you have the IM off!!

Have Fun!

had a look and decided to take it to Mazda to get done, cheers for the info tho... my prob is I dont have a driveway or garage soi have to do any work to car on the roadside... and cant be arsed lol... she booked in for next Wednesday

well shes been in and has been gasketed today, bolth rocker covers and the IM gasket .. bloomin £190 but it seems to have helped lol... whilst they were at it they checked for other oil leaks.. and only place they see any leakage was the dipstick housing.. but hardly leaking not bad for a car thats now done 155k they did however say that it was probably a good time for an engine rebuild or refurb due to the car loosing oil and all possibility that it was burning it in the valves.. dohh... maybe next year

Big advantage of having a 1.8 - I replaced all my rocker cover gaskets last night (all 1 of them ) - cost R280 (25 quid) for the gasket and took all of 10 minutes to install !!!

Mine's in need of a rebuild, but it's not getting it for a while yet - I need to save £££££[size=150]£[/size][size=200]£[/size]



Mark

In all honesty Dan, i wouldnt bother with the rebuid, just find a junkyard MX-6 an nick its KL-DE, 164bhp an only a little shy of a KL-ZE's torque for about 300quid, beauty is its a straight swap an Type-R style power with more torque to boot

yup well I aint decided yet ... nothings gonna happen this year anyway cos I just in the process of buying a house and selling one... so guess where all the moneys going .. ohh well at least this new house has a car port that can fit more than 3 cars in and will be converted into a garage lol...