LMFAO. That made my night... Next to this:

 

doitfgt

 

I'm outta this thread.

 

Take pics of said crank. Use a ******* phone and we'll kill you. Use a real camera and use the needed settings to get a CLEAR picture. Post some blurry **** and we'll kill you. You may need to use something called "macro setting" to get a close picture of the crank (like the ones I posted a few pages back). When you start to take the picture, hold the shutter button half way down and allow the camera to "focus" on the crank. Verify the focus by looking at the image on the screen of the camera and then push the shutter button the rest of the way down to take the picture. After you take the picture, you'll want to plug the camera to your computer. When you do, you'll get a little popup telling you that you just connected a device to the computer and if you would like to view the files. Click the little folder icon. Find the nice clear picture you just took and click it once, this will select the file and it should highlight. Now you can click on it again, but this time hold the mouse button down and start to "drag" it across the window until it gets to your desktop. The desktop is the screen on your computer that you see when all your windows are closed. Let go of the mouse button. Now you've successfully put the image on your computer. At this point go to a website called "www.photobucket.com" and find the instructions on how to "upload" the image to the website. Once you do, you'll see it on there as a small image on the screen (aka your photobucket page). When you do, put your cursor over the image and you'll see some stuff pop up under the picture. Look at the bottom of that pop up for "IMG CODE" and you'll see some text to the right starting with "[IMG]". Click on it. You should get a pause and see it now says "copied". Now come back to this page and go to the "post reply" area and hit ctrl+V. BLAM! Now you've just posted a picture to help us help you.

 

Doppel... The DIY write-up Master!

 

Yeesh you could of used the enter key at least once

 

lmfao. I will never take that **** apart again!

Because I am gonna kill myself FTW!

 

You need to sell it to someone who can fix it. Someone would get tons of joy out of that car.

Edit: I find it hard to believe that the seller was not aware of the problem, and is probably the reason it was so cheap.

 

The seller spent 10k building this motor from the ground up and a 100 bucks part made him sell it

Cheers

 

Pull the motor, disassemble, buy crank, machining, rings, rod bearings, main bearings, gaskets, other parts including balancer, probably some labor costs involved.....does that equal $100.00?

 

Lol You and this $100.00 Part that doesn't exist. Though The guy who built it sold it to the guy who I purchased it from. I called him once discovered what the problem really was and he said that he had no idea about the problem... He only had it for 4 months according to the title.

 

I would love to sell the car as a whole. the tranny shifts like butter and it really is a nice car in general.

 

Of coarse he did not know about the problem. They never do.

 

My situation now is. The car is gonna have to last another 2k miles until I can buy another car for a daily driver. Then I will begin my experiment with the miata. Would Replacing the bearings really be necessary? They only have 44k miles on them

 

If you are going to put in a new crank, you will be replacing bearings.

I have my doubts that it will last another 2000 miles before something starts to give.

 

Depends who does the work. In some cases winning the lottery wont be enough.

 

Lets hope so. I need to get to school and work.

 

Dude, enough, if you can't find a cheap miata crank you are not trying. That's like getting stuck in her belly button.

Pull the engine, swap or repair cranks, new bearings... rods and pistons don't even need to come out honestly if you're just getting it done. Oil pan gasket... Does it get any cheaper?

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mazda-Miata-cran...item43a254dc52

searched ebay and found this crank, took maybe 30 seconds.
Buy it now $99.99. Now stop being a little ***** newbie and deal with the problem or don't, but you are not going to get any sympathy here. Im not going to call bs on the 10K claim but it sure is hard to swallow.

 

Those guys on that listing are actually local. Racine WI. I ended up buying my tires off the older gentlemen.