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"nano-miata" > wrote:

> I noticed that the tachometer stopped working and then on the way home
> one night the car just died and rolled to a stop.

Check for spark. Was the tach jumpy or laggy before it quit? That's a
classic symptom of dirty ground connections at the head near the
alternator and/or at the multi-connector below the master cylinder. If
the bad ground isn't fixed, it may eventually burn out the coil packs.
Bingo, no sparks.

--
Lanny Chambers
'94C, St. Louis
http://www.hummingbirds.net/alignment.html