Aight guys, I have posted a thread on this before but I figured I would repost in a bit of a different fashionto garner some different information. Not too long ago my car seemed to have blown the motor on start up in the parking lot at Wal-Mart. I had had problems starting the car for the previous few days. Bad flooding but it seemed to be a flooding of a different type because it took different things to get it to start than it normally did when it would flood and it hadnt been doing it like this but since I changed my water pump housing gasket and the waterpump sensor which had the plastic connector on the wire somewhat broken.

Anyhow I start the car up and it shuttered really badly and I could hear what seemed like a clanking noise in the motor and of course it sounded funny as if running on one rotor. I did the ghetto compression check to see if I had compression but I heard not even a "piff" from the spark plug hole at all. Most motors that are blown will give you at least one "piff" when turning over if it is a blown apex seal. So then it became apparent that I had taken the other seal out maybe as well, or gouged the housing so bad on that particular side that I would get zero compression on all faces. Anyhow I have driven it a few times since on one rotor to hobble it from wal-mart to home and whatnot.

It seems the motor is blown and I need to replace it but I am wondering on some thin hopes that it may not be a blown motor. Is it common to take out another apex seal or to gouge the face that bad? And what about the coincidence that it had become so much harder to start after I changed that gasket on the water pump housing. I find this very coincidental. Is there anything else oil related or fuel related that would cause there to seem to be no compression on that rotor? Flooding or something of the like and anything else I can check before I decide to rip her apart?

 

HI sounds like you are hoping for a miracle or close to it. face up the demon and spend the evil money. man i love rotarys we must be masochists.

 

Yeah, you know how it is. I was just trying to see how likely both seals would fail and what possible coincidence it would be to have failed at that time.

 

Dude...... I've bout SEVERAL cars that ran on one rotor and gave not even a PIFF out of the other.... There is one in the garage right now in fact.. front rotor is perfect, rear rotor.. not a damn ting!!!!!!! not even a mouse fart!!!

I can hear taps, playing, somewhere, softly for your motor

 

hahahah i ran mine on only the front rotor for about 3 months ... i bought it like that... i thought rx7s sucked (no joke)

rebuild! i was surprised!