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I had this problem, my MX-3 started leaking onto the passenger seat and into the footwell. I have a cracked windscreen and the cowel rubber seal at the bottom of the windshield is loose, I thought that was the problem and since the car has been off the road for a while I used a cover.

This year I ...

I have an oil leak that loses about 1/3 of a quart within a week and then stops leaking. The PCV valve seems to rattle ok, could it still be the culprit?

I'm am a newbie with car mechanics, but am kind of assuming that the leak must be high up somewhere where not all that much oil reaches, like the ...

heh cool, looks like I have a good location to start figuring out where the leak is

I'm almost positive it isn't coolant. THanks man

Just cleaned it up and have to see if I can figure out where its coming from now

These pics were taken from behind the plastic splash guard on the drivers side just regular light coming through no UV or anything.

http://www.tysoes.com/L1.jpg

http://www.tysoes.com/L2.jpg


Or is it something else? the wet stuff looks the color of coolant to me, the die in the AC is a bright ...

It will probably cost $200+ just to take the tranny off the car and put it back on again. I got quoted $450 to have a new clutch kit installed.

Anyway, try the bushings, someone posted some nyoil bushings that are avaliable, as well as the SRD and mazda bushings. Think it was a new post http://www ...

don't know but I noticed GS does about 4200 rpm at 80mph in fifth which is a little more than my miata

In the v6 mx-3 idle in neutral is about 670 rpm and in gear idle is roughly 1200 for me.

So the MX3 seems to have pretty close gear ratios, especialy in 1st and 2nd

go to a parts store and see if they can pull any codes with a scanner that may put some light on things.

Some places like autozone will do it for free.

For some reason I thought that like me he bought a miata to sit alongside his MX3 and hung out on Miata.net on occasion.

Heh yeah, I would have gotten the third link only SRD said that they had discontinued the engine mount member bushings. Cork Sport had a shipment of the engine mount bushings so I ordered all the shifter bushings I could get from cork.

I'll put the rest of the bushings in, and if its still sloppy ...

Did you replace it with an OEM clutch. I'm going to get mine done soon as it slips like crazy when its hot.

Here its $450 for the labor + $130 for an OEM replacement clutch.

Some people have said that the OEM clutch is a bit weak and the MX6, 626, Probe GT for the 2.5 K series engine is a straight ...

Here's the condition of my old bushings after 169,000 miles.

http://www.tysoes.com/Oldbushings.jpg

Here's what the Bronzoil bushings look like on the car. You can see the nice shiny metal a lot easier than the old plastic bushings.


Front

http://www.tysoes.com/frBronze.jpg

Back

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Going to have to get a long 12mm socket or a seperate wrench for the extension rod, and 14mm 17mm socket for the engine member mount bushings.

THanks for the pointer regarding the member mount bushings PATDIESEL, the instructions in the PDF aren't that clear. Hopefully it will all make sense when ...

Ah, figured it out after playing with the thing. the front ones are mounted verticaly not horizontaly.

Having put the bronzoil bushes in, It's probably going to be better to take photo's with the shiny new bushings in since its so much easier to see whats what.

Still quite a lot of left right ...

I want to confirm that I have the right locations for the 4 bronzoil bushings, two on each end of the arm, see photo's below and quick example diagram.

Is this correct?

http://www.tysoes.com/Bronzoil.jpg



I believe the extension rod bushing goes here:


http://www.tysoes.com/Extensionrod.jpg ...

Mazdas have always focused on affordably sporty cars and have always had the best chasis, suspension and handling for racing. They do tend to go more for fun than all out speed.

There's a reason that the Miata is one of the biggest racing series, and thats because its the best bang for $ RWD sports ...