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May 17, 2005: Tonight I should be able to put the car up in the air and pull the transmission cover off.
First the seats have to come out. Then I'll know just what has failed and how. I'll also have a better idea of how I can fix the failure. Thinking about it, I suspect my long bolt has simply dropped out of the slotted hole that was in the upper transmission mount. The mount was too far forward. We'll see. No matter what, I'll fix this so it can't happen again.

Since I will have the cover off the transmission tunnel I'm also going to install a new speedometer drive. The 1999 and later Miatas use an electronically driven speedo instead of the cable driven one I have now. The packaging of the transmission is such that the cable has to bend radically shortly after exiting the transmission and the first one lasted 10 miles. A new cable is obviously not the answer so I'll have to see if I can somehow manage to install and drive a later speedo. I've found a junkyard instrument cluster with some damage to the housing, perfect for my intentions.

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