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Old Sep 3, 2006 | 06:09 PM
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General Rebuild Questions.

My Car Is Burning Oil (Blue SMoke) And I Guess Coolant Too (Snow White Smoke) Go I'm Buying An Engine Lift And Stand. I Know I Have To Buy Oil Bearings And O-Rings And Such For The Rotery. Ok What Do I Fix To Stop The Coolant Burning Issue? Thank You.

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Old Sep 3, 2006 | 07:56 PM
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Buy a atkins rebuild rotor kit for 440.00 and a gasket kit for 125.00.. you will bo good.. Look in the group buy section for a discount..
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Old Sep 4, 2006 | 03:11 PM
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https://www.rx7club.com/group-buy-center-69/rotor-rebuild-kits-503588/
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Old Sep 4, 2006 | 04:09 PM
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Old Sep 4, 2006 | 07:37 PM
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I think thats over kill. Just replace the Viton seals and a gasket set.
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Old Sep 4, 2006 | 08:14 PM
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so if i wanna rebuild my 12a i need almost 600 bucks??? y not just buy a new motor, ummm because i wanna see its insides
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Old Sep 4, 2006 | 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Latin270
I think thats over kill. Just replace the Viton seals and a gasket set.
I hope you don't mean Viton oil seals, aka oil control o-rings. Viton is a useful and cost effective material for some applications, but it does not last long as an oil control o-ring in our opinion. We love it (in certain grades) for water seals, rear stationary gear o-rings, oil filler pedestal o-rings, dowel o-rings, etc., but it appears to absolutely sucks for oil control o-rings. The factory oil control o-rings are a very expensive fluorinated rubber, which is the only thing we recommend you ever use in that application. They last well over 100,000 miles. Viton is much, much, much cheaper but not worth it. Seriously, we see a handful of motors a year come in the shop with 20K or less and bad *aftermarket* oil control o-rings. I don't know how long they normally last, but all the bad ones we've seen tells a sad story.
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