Hi all. I have some questions concerning my son's 97 Miata. He has owned it since 2001. Durning that time he has put 30,000 miles on it. What can I say he likes computers.
I am getting a lot of top end noise from one of the cylinders in my son's Miata.
My son doesn't drive his Miata much. And he never drives it hard. The car is just now coming out of winter storage. I put stabilizer in the gas.
When I ran it yesterday I thought that it was a lifter. But the noise never went away. In fact the noise was loud enough to turn heads of some the people who were on the sidewalk.
Do I need to set the valves in this car? Could one the lifters have come loose? Would carbon buildup cause this? If so how do I get the carbon out? Do I need to pull the valve cover and have a look?
The car has 90,000 miles It doesn't use any oil.