[SOLVED] Design flaw Miata Solved

Actually, I cannot work on an advanced degree while teaching at FSU. So far for me becoming a professional mechanic. :(

Leon

Hey I remember that site.

It's the one saying that I live just around the corner from the North Pole.

As a motorcycle rider, the biggest problem I see with DRLs is that all the car lights on during the day tend to make motorcycles' headlights less obvious, and so motorcycles can't be seen as well. In the US, motorcycle headlights must be on at all times. On my bike, I use my high-beam during the day. It might be a little obnoxious to other drivers, but at least I can be seen a little better.

As for my bright red Miata, if for some reason I think other cars might have trouble seeing me, I'll just turn my headlights on myself.

Just my $.02

Please give my regards to Santa and Mrs. Claus...

As any Danish child knows, the Clauses live in Greenland and not on the North Pole.

Crumm said on 6/5/2004 12:50:

Cool, somebody else actually has a RED Miata and a motorcycle...

I fully agree with the bike rider concerns. As for the Miata, the main problem I have encountered is with people (particularly in SUVs) cutting me off by changing into my lane. DRLs don't help with that, but a loud horn does ;-)

-Joe

Actually, my motorcycle is RED too!

I notice the same thing with many SUV drivers, but it seems to happen no matter what car I drive, including my pickup. (Sorry, but the pickup is black.) ;-)

Well yeah, but, you know, the door panel black sticky stuff is STILL worse, n'est-ce pas?

Steve McMahon Green JRSC '00LS

Yes, much worse, Steve. Simple paper towels will take care of the oil. Try that with the tarry stuff. You will have tarry towels tarring other things and no tar removed from where you wiped tar.

But I am *still* mopping up oil bleeding from the hood. I cannot believe it: only a pint or so was gone. It sure *seems* like a quart or so is still out there hiding somewhere inside the hood.

Leon ;)

Use the quarter carwash on the underside of the hood (cover the engine first). Or remove the hood so you can clean it thoroughly.

Oh, when I get home, I will put simple green on it. All this is hard to do when on the road.

And yes, there is *still* a lot of oil dripping from the hood. I just mop it up wit towels every tank of gas. I guess oil runs better when hot.

Leon ;)

And me!! The only problem with that combination is deciding which one to take out on a nice day.... :-) And one thing that motorbike riding has taught me is that turning your lights on makes other people see you better, which can only really be a good thing.

Eric

You know, Leon, that old movie "The Blob" was on TV last weekend. The thing with The Blob was; it just kept growing & growing because of, I believe, some '50's, nuclear paranoia semi-scientific deal. Now I'm not saying that the spilled oil OUTSIDE of your crankcase is growing; but HOW ELSE can one explain this continued proliferation of spilled oil. We all know that Black Sticky Stuff DOES defy logic and physics; that it does, like, you know . . grow. But spilled oil? BTW, car washes used to offer steam-cleaning, which is what I did back in '87 when I did the EXACT same thing after an oil change on an MR2. Today? Well, I bet they still offer steam cleaning in Cuba.

Voltaire said, "Doubt is not a pleasant condition; but certainty is absurd."

Seriously though, you need to take the time and clean that oil out of there.

-- SM

It is probably waste product of the nuclear bacteria that are hiding in every Miata hood below the stiffeners, ready to take over the world, and especially the Miatae, of course, as soon as they can get enough oil to sustain themselves and proliferate.

Will do tomorrow (today, come to think of it.) Just want to have something to cover the engine real good.

Leon

Oh, no! I sprayed half a bottle of Simple Green, mostly in the holes in the hood, and solidly sprayed it clean with the water hose. Yet I discovered new oil is still coming out of the hood. It is obviously a run-away reaction, where it takes only half a dead nuclear bacteria to create two new ones, leaving the other halves to form an exploding amount of oil! It is a CH-bomb!

Nothing can stop it now. Except Heisenberg, maybe. Anybody knows where to find him?

Leon

ROTFL!! Nice one, amigo.

Well then, time to start catching it in barrels. Does your neighborhood association allow refineries? Sure, you'll lose the use of Bozo. But with the profits you could buy a nice MazdaSpeed Miata and paint it white. The hardtop, sheepskins, and curb feelers should transfer right over.

Last time I saw Werner, he was burying a demised cat. He said its ninth life had disappeared in a small matter-antimatter annihilation. Dunno that I believed him--there sure were a lot of empty Duvel bottles lying around.