Templeswain

Okay I'm preheating the oven right now to 275 degrees because I can't get two jammed side seals out. They're driving me crazy!

So now I'm going to bake my rotor to see if they come loose this way. I think that the carbon deposits have gummed up the seal crevess and dried that way siezing them in there. Hopfully a hot temperature change will make these deposits sludge like.....I soaked them in chemdip carb cleaner now for two days with no change.


Errr.....Here goes.

hpram99

wow, in my engine the side seals all fell out.

andrew lohaus

hmm interesting, actualy using the oven sounds likea better idea to me than the ussual torch becuase this way you are heating the rotor evenly and lessining the chance of heat related warpage.

i suggesting heating uba few complete rotating assemblies than putting them in a hole in the ground with a whole pig. cover and wait 8 hours. mmmmmm rotor luow(sp?).

Templeswain

Yeah, but this one sat like this for a year. Plus it had coolent seal failure so maybe the rotor sat at the bottem of the housing in a little pool of coolent making it rust in there too or something. I don't know.

andrew lohaus

if its rust you could try some CLR, or at least here i n florida they sell some stuff called white-ox that stuff will eat the rust off anything.

hpram99

ah.... yikey

You may have a fuxord rotor there if thats the case...

good luck to ya

Templeswain

rotisserie rotor. LOL.

Templeswain

I could see that too. But I think this motor was rebuilt by another amature like myself. Everything is new. I got real lucky. No scored housings. The side seals are actually just as thick as the new ones I got. So are the apex seals.

Its as if they put it together without any sealent and it blew in 100 miles or something. The rotors are within tolerance and they look brand new too.

Oh well, we'll see how this goes......

Indy7373

Keep us informed. And then submit your recipe to martha stewart.

hIGGI

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can i taste it once it will be done ?

BigTone

I had a problem with side seals sticking on one of my engines. In the end I was able to pull the seal out, but I bent the **** out of it. Good Luck!

Templeswain

Update.

Well, that did a whole lot of nothin'.

The rotor was steaming hot. I'm going to have to call the ******' A-team in.

Madrx7racer

lol.....how do you plan to get the seals off now?

Nowhere

Aw dam, sorry my idea did not work. Did you try the ice trick though??

Hot rotor, thick gloves, cold ice. With a nice hot rotor, take the ice and smash it on the side seals, it might contract just enough to break free! ?

asuka42227

MMMM...

Rotorisserie.

Off topic, but Nowhere. That is one seriously great sig.

Sideways7

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I agree. Thats is hands down the best sig I have ever seen.

Madrx7racer

LOL.....I like it.......awesome....he should tried to pull in the first place.....

Templeswain

Alright.

Oh-my-*******-god.

That took only what? About 7 hours or so. They're out. That was about as easy as birthing a rhino through my nose.


Hot rotor, thick gloves, cold ice. With a nice hot rotor, take the ice and smash it on the side seals, it might contract just enough to break free! ?


I thought about this, but what I could see happening is the crevess cooling down faster than the side seal, thus gripping it tighter. But I thought the oven Idea would be a good start though.

Templeswain

Thought I'd give you guys a little pick of it.

Finger lickin' good.

Parastie

hehehe, that had to smell bad. And Nowhere stole that sig from another forum just like i did, but i didn't post it because i could figure out how :P Actually, now that i think about it, he might be on that other forum...i don't remember.