Miata Mailing List: May 1995, Message #86
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   From: TAKAHARA@aol.com
Subject: Hole in my MIATA!!!
   Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 18:22:20 -0400

DANG!!!  You would not believe what I went through today!!!

A BIG ROCK!!!

  I was on the way to school, and there is this very ugly turn that you can't
see the road a head much...
  Anyway, when I was driving there, there was a huge rock (about 4" diameter)
sitting right in middle of the road!!!  YIKES!!!  I quickly looked at the
side and rear view and there were cars which would be too close to slam my
breaks!!!
  So  I went throught that thing preparing for my front bodykits to
crack.....    BANG!!!DOOOOMM!!!!  It was LOUD!!!  

  ...............Guess what!?  smokes started to come out from the bottom,
and I thought it was a header since the noise of the car got louder..... but
WRONG!!  It was my Engine Oil pan!!!  

  So I parked my car with full of white smoke (burning oil) in my school's
parking lot, and I called the dealer.... no one has the oil pan in stock.
 Infact, its price is $230!!!!  So I called Rubeck Mazda and they told me
they can get it by tomorrow, and can overnight ship so I can get it by
Thursday.  And price was $151.....

  My car is still sitting at my school parking lot waiting for my friend's
flat bed carrier to pick it up....

I guess I won't be driving my car till Thursday.....  :-<

Oh, and does anybody have changed the oilpan by your self?  I'm planning to
do it by my self, but I'm not sure if its goona be a lot of work or not....
 Do I have to take any suspension parts or other stuff before I access to
OilPan?

Thanks...  (Gotta go buy a oil & Duralube so next time, I can drive home
without my oil in the engine....  hahaha)

Jay TAKAHARA
94 White left alone in the parking lot.....