The Great Echo Metro Adventure

So my house mate Echo is leaving for Japan. We have an agreement that if I could get her car, a 96 Geo Metro getting something like 45-50 MPG, working again, I could use it while she was gone for 6 months or more. This would be perfect, as it's an ideal commuter vehicle for when it's too far for the scooter, but doesn't require the cargo capacity of the 23 MPG CR-V. Since it seemed like a simple clutch problem, and I have a great auto-savvy friend in trippedbreaker, we decided to do it ourselves.

We'll note that aside from a few very minor fixes, my automotive mechanical experience consists mostly of being unable to properly change the oil on my RX-7 in college.
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