What is the very best manual for a 1985GS bone stock? My temp guage quit first ,then the voltmeter, then the oil pressure, dropped to 40, then after an easy run of five miles and back there is smoke coming from the right side of the engine,just below the radiator hose is covered with oil and on the front of the engine lower right side is an opening filled with something that feels like fiberglass and the smoke is coming from there. am I shot down? it seems to run fine. Seems that maybe I should buy book....

 

hey bob, you should know this by now... check the FAQ...

but just this once I'll help you out.

http://www.wankel.net/%7Ekrwright/ca...85_manual.html hosts a digital version of it (pdf file, download adobe acrobat reader if you don't have it already, it's free). keep an eye on e-bay for a FSM, which I think most will agree is truly the "best" manual out there. (FSM = factory service manual). Good luck!

 

Thank you Sir . This was one of those days, when it all went to hell. Enought to make me think of selling the whole mess.

 

Hey Bob

If all of your gauges are going screwy more or less around the same time, you might want to check your ground wires....

Oil leak sounds like the OMP.

I've got no clue about that fiberglass stuff though........I have a Haynes manual, seems to be pretty decent. Good luck with it, and you're always welcome to bring it over as long as you've got Heinies..

 

If you sell it, then you got to find a new hobby. We would rather help you on line. much better than getting into stuff like or tuning or a gangbanger

 

The fiberglass is likely the heat packing inside the factory heatsheild, around the exhaust manifold.The smoke is caused by oil soaking into the fiberglass,then burning off when the manifold gets hot.Like Kentetsu said,check the OMP for leaks,also check the oilpan or front main seal.It probably pretty nasty down there by now,so youll have to clean it up good beforehand.A coin carwash will work good,or rent a pressure washer.Just try to do it when the engine is cool/cold so you dont spray cold water on a piping hot manifold.
Stock gauges always crap out,its usually crud on the sending unit connectors or the sending units themselves fail.The best book is a factory service manual,although most of the pics are bad Xerox copies.They will have ALL the info you could ever want to know about the car,I have an 84 and its awesome,tons of specs and clear diagrams,just some crappy photos in the carb and engine pages.A Haynes is pretty good too,just stay away from Clymers.

 

Bob, don't sell the car until you try putting some of that engine stop leak stuff in to see if it cuts down the oil leak. Get the real thick stuff from either STP or Gold Eagle (Engine Stop Leak for Brown Leaks, it's called). Change your oil, use 20-50W Castrol, add a bottle of the Stop Leak and run it in for a few hundred miles. Then clean up your engine bay with some engine cleaner. For about $15 and an hour's work you could have everything working again. Worked for me.

Ray

 

keeping a rx-7 running is a much better - and safer - hobby

 

Unless you consider your sanity!!!!!!

 

could be the alternator- similar thing happened to me when the alternator belt was slipping on my Z at about 140 at night... kinda sucked to lose the engine, power steering, brakes, and headlights at 140mph on a two-lane highway at 3am! Guages went first, so that's a likely culprit.