Originally Posted by PseudoRealityX
Loren, it's a '94 A package. It's not a well known problem on the BP's built after about '93. Jason just happened to get an early engine it seems. Even by 92, the Protege had the big nose cranks on their BP's.
Interesting. Sorry about that. Short nose crank failure on a Miata just immediately made me think 1.6 because that's all it applies to... pre-92 1.6's. All of the Miata 1.8's have the big nose crank. This problem must have been caused by improper assembly or something.
Or, did Stuart actually take the thing apart yet? Maybe it's just a bad pulley?