Headlight Rods, Hood Clips, Gas Tanks, Gas Caps & Overflow Tanks

Headlight Rods
	79-85 Long Rod w/bushings	51-9340-8871
	79-85 Short Rod w/bushings	51-9360-8871
	86-92 Short Rod w/bushings	51-651A-FB01
	86-92 Medium Rod w/bushings	51-652A-FB01
	86-92 Long Rod w/bushings	51-664A-FB01

Hood Rod Clip
	79-85	50-7020-9971
	79-85 Pivot	52-5180-8871
	86-92 (not convertible)	52-514B-FB01
	88-92 Convertible	52-5140-FB67
	93-95	56-6420-FD01
	93-95 Pivot	52-518C-G144

Gas Caps
	Year	Part Number
	79-85	42-250B-8871
	86-90	42-2500-FC01
	91-92	42-2500-FC02

	93-95 Fuel Door Kicker/Eject Spring *Note* If your fuel door does not pop open when you pull the lever, it can be the pin on the cable or the kicker inside the door. These two parts can fix that problem!	56-83XC-FD01
	93-95 Fuel Door Cable *Note* If your fuel door does not pop open when you pull the lever, it can be the pin on the cable or the kicker inside the door. These two parts can fix that problem!	56-870A-FD01

93-95 Air Separator Tanks
Mazda OEM Part	15-35XB-N3A1
Aluminum	AST-ALUM

Radiator Overflow/Expansion Tank
	79-80 Tank Square	No Longer Available
	81-85 Tank Round	15-350D-1052
	86-92	15-350C-N332
These factory tanks are good quality, and they work much better than those cheap universal ones available at the local parts houses. If you are not familiar with how these systems work, it is quite simple. As the water in the radiator heats and expands, it is pushed out past the radiator pressure cap, and into the overflow bottle. When the system cools down, the excess water is pulled back into the radiator by the vacuum created when the water requires less space. This allows the radiator to maintain a full load of water.
NOTE !!!: If your bottle stays full, and yet the radiator seems to need water frequently (the low-level light/buzzer keeps coming on), the problem is usually a bad bottle-to-radiator hose or connection, or a small leak somewhere that is preventing the system from creating enough vacuum to pull the water back in. We locate these by pressurizing the system (with a hand pump-up unit), and then just waiting for the drips. Sometimes it can take a good while for the leak to show. Typical things are loose hose clamps, small pin holes in the radiator, or a bad water pump seal. Please also remember that the radiator cap seal MUST be good - they tend to rather frequently have the seal expand to larger than the radiator neck, which prevents the cap from working correctly.

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