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Old 01-17-2015, 03:21 PM
ramonajim ramonajim is offline
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Originally Posted by spdrun View Post
Great drivetrains. Make sure you torqued and Loctited the crank bolt correctly and used a new key. Those motors are prone to crank pulley wobble that eventually eats the end of the crank. Other than that, they're basically bulletproof.
There's a pretty strong case to be made for replacing the crank bolt on the 1.6 Miata engines (90-93, though the bolt was replaced with a longer version somewhere in 91 or 92, if I remember correctly) anytime you take it out.
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