I can't believe that I never ever REALLY worked on a car and I'm now getting ready to put my entirely rebuilt engine and transmission back in my beautiful RX7.

I loved the engine removal and teardown instructions at Rotary Resurrection but I struggled trying to understand what was going on with their tiny pictures.

To keep myself organized, and because I'm a web guy by trade, I created a blog with detailed photos / instructions about how I took my engine out and tore it down to the short block so that hopefully I can remember how to put it all back together again.

Seemed useful to me and I thought it might be useful to others that bought a super sweet rx7, drove it like a maniac, popped a seal, and needed to rip the engine out

https://rx7enginepull.wordpress.com/

 

This should have way more views. Awesome amount of detail pictures. This will be extremely useful for a lot of people. I really like the close up pictures and the fact that you show people how to properly tape and tag piece connectors and parts so you don't forget where they good. Nice job and thank for the contribution to community!

 

Thanks for giving it a look. Happy to help however I can. Wouldn't have even started this project if it weren't for this community.

 

Good write up. Only thing I'd like to add is that to remove the power steering lines without rounding the nuts, a line wrench can be used. Open ended wrenches tend to round off.

A line wrench is a closed end wrench, with a small notch to let it slip over the line and down onto the nut. Same type that is used for brake lines.

 

sweet tool and a good tip. The things you learn after your round off your first power steering line nuts

 

Great write up, nice job documenting the process!

BTW, regarding the PS pump, my personal preference is to not remove the PS lines at all, which saves you the step of refilling & bleeding the PS system when the engine goes back in. Instead just remove the PS pulley, then remove the PS pump from the bracket and wire it out of the way to the side. There's enough slack in the PS lines for this to work without any issues.

 

Andy, Great writeup. I know how much effort it takes to do all those pictures and label them all. It is very much appreciated. Are you going to do more and finish the writeup?

Regards,
Crispy

 

Man, next time I have to pull my engine out will be so much better. Power steering fluid was literally everywhere so it would have definitely been better to wire it out of the way!

As for continuing the writeup, I stopped after I got it to the shortblock because that's when I shipped it to someone that really knows what they're doing for the actual rebuild!

Thanks everyone for giving it a read! I will totally sprinkle in your suggestions around the power steering.