Changing 1990 Miata timing belt , water pump, etc.

Changing Mazda Miata ( 1990 ) timing belt , water pump and other stuff in that general vicinity
Alternator Belt

AC belt

The 1990 Miata engine is a fine piece of design.  Still , it has it's drawbacks.
I invite comments.

Ornamental gewgaws
I find that some of the items on the Miata are ornamental and can be removed which simplifies my life.
 Part of the oil pan was blocking the installation of the timing belt. It was not doing anything ( perhaps it was part of a dust seal ) With some difficulty I whacked it off.  I also whacked off a dust seal next to the Timing belt crankshaft gear.

Good advice and bad advice
== Breakable crankshaft
The cloud told me that I had a short nose crankshaft that would be easy to break if I removed the front pulley.  I believed the cloud, so I went to a great deal of trouble to install the timing belt without removing the pulley.

== Belt can be installed without removing timing belt gear or crankshaft pulley
The cloud told me I could install the timing belt without pulling the front pulley.  After much struggle ,  I don't believe this to be true.  I found this useful.


Clockwise
The engine spins clockwise... so do the cam shafts  .... Avoid spinning them the other way.

Radiator fan sensor



99MiataTimingBelt   99guspuppet

HOWTO remove/re-install MacIntosh Automator

HOW TO remove / reinstall Apple MacIntosh Automator application
( for Snow Leopard )


Read the following :  this
http://guides.macrumors.com/Uninstalling_Applications_in_Mac_OS_X#Using_Finder_to_remove_Application_Bundles_and_Additional_Files

Search for automator  using the Spotlight application  or ( Houdah application )

I found and trashed the .......
plist
the application
the automator files in the library

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One way other than doing a reinstall is to download Pacifist and use that to reinstall Automator. Pacifist allows you to reinstall 'specific' Apps etc off your Tiger Install DVD.

http://www.charlessoft.com/
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http://www.ehow.com/how_7540230_reinstall-automator.html

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OS X installer procedure
Choose Optional Installs

Choose Optional Installs.mpkg

I hit a dead end using Apple supplied installer so I used *Pacifist* ....................  see above

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I used an unregistered copy of Pacifist to open my Snow Leopard install DVD ...
Pacifist took about 15 minutes to extract the packages.

Once you figure out some of the quirks of Pacifist .... it works very well....
I registered for $20