TrineonX

I'm going to drain my coolant while I'm repairing the head gasket, how much should i expect to come out?

numan2

well if your only changing the head gasket then none will come out but if you change the valvecover gasket that's another story.

















LOL rotories don't have head gaskets or valve cover gaskets.

RotorMotorDriver

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If you drain it all, its 10 quarts (2.5 gallons) including the heater core, but uh, I dont think you'll get that much out of it. Thats the maximum though, so better to be safe than sorry .

~T.J.

PS - What ARE you changing? Rotaries really DONT have head gaskets... Maybe an intake manifold gasket? Thermostat gasket?

Glazedham42

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This reminds me that I need to get a new flux capacitor, and some more blinker fluid.....

RotorMotorDriver

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Check your muffler bearings while youre at it! Dont forget to put the winter air in your tires!

~T.J.

RX7Rox

Ha...don't let us scare you off. We're just playing with ya and we want to help. Can you tell us exactly where you are losing coolant?

TrineonX

When I said Head gasket, I meant intake gasket, the one where it meets the block went bad. Started steaming after a 100 mph run on the highway, antifreeze was just dripping out when I opened the hood. Didn't overheat, luckily. I had just woken up, sorry about the mixup.

lovintha7

I think I put in somewhere around 2 gallons of mixed coolant last time I drained the system.

Oh btw, don't forget to change the timing belt, check the headlight fluid, and adjust the valve lash. Sorry, couldn't help it.

cdrad51

About a gallon if you drain it by just removing the intake manifold and letting it pour out. I think a bit more if you use the drain plug in the center housing.

calvinpaul

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If you are leaking around the intake.....(head).....gasket, make sure to change your o-rings in there. Most likely that is where you are leaking from. I think you can get them at mazdatrix or racing beat.

RotorMotorDriver

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Just plug the damn coolant passages with a couple 25mm freeze plugs, or a couple quarters. To hell with the O-Rings. I gurantee thats whats leaking too, coolant doesnt flow inside the intake runners.

~T.J.

MosesX605

Even if you plug the coolant passages into the intake manifold, you still need the O-rings to seal it up properly, IIRC.

TrineonX

While I'm at it Il'l put in new plugs, on all four cylinders

jays83gsl

I sure do hope that's a play at your sarcasm. If not. . . . GET OUT!

cdrad51

He's just fooling around.

jays83gsl

I do hope so.

BTW, I was telling him to get out for his own sake

Boy, you should see what me and my peeps did to that ricer punk's self esteem when he drove up to my bro's school in a FOUR BANGER 1st gen. Such a beautiful car. . . . RUINED!

At least V8s have some POWER!

TrineonX

good god. I am familiar with the wonderful power behind my car. Yes I understand how the rotary works, and that there are so many spark plugs because of the really long combustion chamber.

calvinpaul

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Actually, the trailing are primarily for emissions reasons.

jays83gsl

I was just joking really

RX-Racer

Learning with scarcasm and put downs is a fast way to learn I say!
Its just like learning the hard way, its sticks in your head right away!

JP

hanman

TrineonX, I read your other post. You have a GSL-SE fuel injected engine. You need to let everyone know when you post. You have the 13B engine. It is not the same animal as most first gens.
There are no Orings in the intake on the 13B.