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Originally Posted by G-Rex
That keyway looks pretty worn *and* twisted. Maybe it's just the photo...
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Not the photo. It's fucked up.
But that's the problem with these cars. The keyway deforms, the key breaks, the timing is thrown off, and the crank pulley begins to wobble. That's why I had to remove the old crank cog in the first place: to access the keyway and repair it with Loctite 660 liquid metal.
Which I expected to harden like actual metal, but after 24 hours has still failed to cure. It's as gooey today as it was yesterday when I squeezed it out of the tube. According to thousands of other worn-crank Miata owners, this stuff fills all the extra space in the slot, keeping the key in place once the cog is torqued to the crank nose.
Right.
Also notice the broken bits of the lip around the crank seal. That's finesse, bitches.
Actually it's from a big fucking hammer.