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Outch!.. Rebuild?

I still have to ask.. how exactly did you inhale "pounds" of dirt into the engine?

 

mud trick?

 

NOBODY HELP HIM UNTIL HE SAYS HOW HE DID IT!!

Honestly though, some details would be great. As in, did you have a manifold off and dropped a bunch in there or were you driving down the road and plowed into a pile of dirt, sucking it in, and having it spin around in your engine for god knows how long?

 

CAI gone terribly wrong?

 

I'd start by slowly injecting some water into the engine via the intake manifold runners...pour slowly as someone cranks the car (with fuel/spark disabled). this will soften the dirt and it will eventually get expelled out the exhaust. Then I'd turn it a while with the plugs out to blow out as much water as possible. Clean plugs and inject some motor oil or atf via the same method...crank for a few times then restore fuel/spark and see what it does. SHould be fine, unless the dirt had a highly abrasive content.

 

I'm with him /\. But, due to the touchy nature of the rotary motor, I'd suggest a rebuild. If you don't, I fear you may notice a difference. For me, even knowing that there could even potentially be something like that in the motor would drive me nuts. No matter how many times I flushed it.

Rabbit

 

What kind of dirt are you talking about top soil, mud, concrete dust?

 

Nah, test run it first. IF it is somehow fucked, THEN send it out for rebuild. You don't have a lot to lose, really. Mud would be pretty pliable in comparison with seals and metal parts, so it depends on exactly how much is in there, but the internals should come out the winner.

 

I disagree. Pouring water into it is just gonna make it worse, all the dirt in the TB and manifold is gonna turn into mud inside the housing and it will start to grind into the rotor housing.

The safest way to deal with the problem is to remove the tb and manifold and clean them out manually. From there reasemble it all and 'then' do the water trick to flush out only the dirt in the rotor housing...

I have a feeling that the guy was like driving in the desert and his filter came off