I'm gonna be diving into my clutch and flywheel sometime in the near future and while I'm in there I'm gonna change to the racing beat 17 lbs flywheel, ACT clutch, get a new rear main seal and all the little trinkets (counterweight, bearings etc.). What I'm wondering is how hard it is to change all this stuff? I already know that I cant do it myself cause I dont have the space, time or tools to do it, but I dont really trust the shops around here... actually, at all. I had one guy that might be willing to do the work tell me that the rear staionary gear needs to come off and if anything shifts at all I'll have to rebuild the motor. Is that true or is he making it seem harder then it really is? The only other shop I could think of is on the other side of the island (2 hour drive) and I've got school to think about. Who' done this and how critical is it all? I'm really starting to wonder

 

I used to live on Oahu, good scene there, is there alot of tuners on da big island brudda?
Also there should be something in the archive about a tranny tear down.

 

The closest thing to a "tuner" is a guy in kona that works on 7's. I've only seen a handfull around here and 95% are driven by 50 yr old ladys.... its rather disheartening.

 

Why would the rear stationary gear need to come out to replace the rear seal?

 

Good question, I've never taken the tranny off an rx7 before so I dont know what it looks like in there, but from what the guy told me the counterweight is connected to the gear and you have to do somthing to take it off blah blah, "and if it moves at all you've gotta rebuild the motor". Oh, I've checked the archive, they've got 2 threads on replacing the clutch, but my main concern is the counterweight and rear main seal. thanks

 

Well, I changed mine with the gear on the engine, sounds like he's loeading you with a bunch of BS.

And there is no rear counter weight on the gear. From the factory they only have a front counterweight (except automatics). When you install a lightweight flywheel you have to attach a counterweight from an automatic to the flywheel.

Doesn't sound like this guy is all that familier with rotaries.

 

He's got a 3rd gen himself but he hasn't done work on his clutch or any other rx clutch. When I got the flywheel in the mail it came with a counterweight so I guess I just assumed that there was one in there already. So now the question is, how do you know witch way the counterweight goes on? I dont want it going on 180 degrees off and blowing my motor when they go to start it...

 

I'm wondering this too. I havent read up on it yet...but since its being asked here I might not have to.

 

I still cant find anything, but because it seems like a commen thing thats done it should seem like there'd be some info out there. Nobody's willing to answer? What if I asked real nice like?

 

The counterweight has a keyed slot in it. I can't go on 180 out.

 

its a really straight forward install, take the tranny to engine bolts off, lower tranny so you can see the flywheel, unbolt the pressure plate, then wizz the 54mm nut off. remove old seal, replace old seal, put your new counterwieght on, bolt your new flywheel to the counterwieght. then wizz the 54mm nut back on, then put the disc in, then the pressure plate and replace the two halves again and walla your done. theres some minor discrepencies that i didnt cover but thats the gist of it its NOT that hard

 

whew, that takes a load off. Thanks guys