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Had a bit of an oops this past weekend with the wheel bearing on the Contour. The TL;DR is: I changed out LCAs, noticed worn wheel bearings, got a set of assembled knuckles from a friend, one of those wheel bearings was bad on arrival, assembled my removed set of knuckles, same side bearing shat...

Are you referring to putting this engine into a Protege? Would like to know more details before I offer up more direct info. I'm not sure this engine will fit *well* into the Protege chassis. It's big. Much bigger than the KL V6 that I put into my Protege5. And I would hard pressed to say it...

I especially enjoy the bit where it says "asbestos free." Nothing screams "there was once a better product than removal of something particularly hazardous for ones' health! Now if Mazda could have made the decision to use metals not sourced from the Titanic, that would be swell! On the...

Where to (roughly) in MI? I'm in the SE DetMet area. I had a NC Pro5 which succumbed to me being a plonker, but had some rust starting in the rear arch, and have a TX Pro5 that has been resprayed poorly, but lacks rust (thankfully) so there's that... Enjoy the car! I know I have, as I've owned...

Keeping it O.T. here, I tore into the Probt GT transmission I picked up a few months back and am chuffed to report it's got the 4.388 final drive. This means the differential will be changed out for the MFactory unit, but I'll run the Probe GT ratios which may be a bit better suited for the KL...

Ran the car again today, this time with the pillar gauges hooked up. HOT oil pressure dropped between 0 and 25 on Autometer gauge, taken from the spot where the dummy light normally goes, and the oil temps got up to between 120 and 250F. No issues at these values. Let the car run for a minute or...

Edmaz pretty much hit it on the head regarding removal if the studs or nuts won't budge. If the stud is coming out with the nut, that too is an okay scenario. I will say that the threads in the exhaust components likely will end up buggered, so you will want to exercise caution when...

Oh yeah, confirmed it's build number 0086 for 1998! Mate called the production-number number because I am terribly lazy. I've been driving this to work this week in an effort to figure out what sort of MPGs it gets when it's not driven in haste. Last tank was 20.8 and that included the...