Miata Mailing List: August 1992, Message #9
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Subject: changing fuel filter
   Date: (none)


Hmm, well it looks like no one has changed that *other* 60,000 mile thing, the
timing belt.  There isn't a Haynes manual on the Miata yet, but the factory
manual isn't too bad -- I'll probably install a new $50 timing belt myself
sometime soon.

So what about the fuel filter?  I have the part, a rather large black steel
canister with some sort of chinsy but well-finished Japanese tubes, etc., in
hand from the dealership.  It goes somwhere up there in the right rear corner
near the gas tank.  Has anyone changed it, or had it changed?  Do you think
the large size of the thing justifies letting it go 60,000 miles between
changes?  (Remember, we're talking fuel injection here, and injectors are
notoriously finicky about crud in the gas.)  Are there any pitfalls to the
procedure?  Should I sell the Miata and get an MG again so I can talk to folks
who *work* on their cars? =8^)
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  James Miller -- developing Unix software at (!) IBM -- Austin
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