l-bone

Well it actually hasn't overheated, but if i let it run long enough it will. So long story short, my old motor ate **** cuz of blown water seals and i ended up getting my friend's old motor from his 87 n/a. I know that this motor ran well before so i didn't spend a whole lotta time inspecting it. I just took off the rear housing, took a good look at the rotor and coolant passages (looked pretty good to me), put it all back together, and dropped that sucka in. After fightin' with a crank no start (bad crank sensor connection), i finally got is started. Anyways, the needle on the temp gauge will slowly rise and won't stop until i shut the engine off. There's no visible coolant leaks and i replaced just about all the hoses, but when i shut the engine off after it warms up, it starts steaming from around the lower intake manifold area. Weird ****, right?! The steam smells like coolant, but i just can't find a leak anywhere, and I don't think there's coolant that runs through the lower intake manifold ( at least in the n/a motor). Any help would be deeply appreciated!

RotaryRocket88

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Edit: saw this is a double post

hanman

Check your fan/clutch. If that's ok, then check your thermostat. After that I would look at maybe a clogged radiator. Then check the water pump. There's not much left after that.

Jpk3200

http://www.aaroncake.net/rx-7/cooling.htm

rhoadwh

Are you having issues with low coolant? You fill it up and a couple of days later, your low coolant buzzer is going off? If its leaking from the lower intake manifold, you may have a bad gasket there or its not seated properly. The seal around the cooling jacket in the intake manifold is not sealed right, sounds like to me.

87 t-66

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did you put the orings on where the lim meets the block?

rhoadwh

sorry, never done this procedure before. I would look in a factory service manual or haynes(the cheaper that works 60% of the time.

l-bone

Yo thanks everyone for yo help it turned out ta be a clogged radiator. I threw a new one in and it runs cherry now!
By da way, i took the rear iron off simply cuz i was curious. I'm a ****** noob a'ight? And I sold the old motor before i could tear it apart and see how **** worked. And i didn't replace the water seals cuz like a said, the rear one looked good. It wasn't old or crumbly or busted or anything, so i let em be. Besides I didn't wanna spend to much cash on this motor cuz i wanna swap somethin faster and much more gangster in it someday. Until then this motor's doin a'ight. When the water seals go out, **** it. I gotta DD anyway.

O yea and sorry bout the double-post my computer been actin stupid lately