Well I went a picked this out of a friends FC today. Factory Mazda Reman with ~25k miles on it. These pictures are before any cleaning, pretty much right after it was pulled out. Sorry about quality, it was dark, but you can see how clean it is






Still undecided what I want to do with that engine yet.. While I had the camera out I thought Id take a few pics of all the various FC crap I have laying around...any other packrats have tons of stuff too?






And then my aluminum hood that I need to get around to paint..



Just thought Id give you something to look at....

 

Also, a quick question....when pulling the engine , this got broke off (oil pressure sender..) It just snapped off , and now there is a little piece of it stuck in the housing. Any suggestions as to going about getting this out so I can replace it? Thanks....

 

Did it fall down into the housing?

 

No, its just the little piece is plugged into the housing is still there.. I havent tried to mess with it at all, just got the engine back, and its late. I just thought Id ask to se if it happenend to anyone else, so I could get some advise before I go about trying to get it out..

 

hey ill take that engine off your hands...

 

Get a large easy out and cut off its tip . . this might work on the oil sender sleeve. If that doesn't work, after disassembling the engine, get a drill / tap set for the sender's thread size and just drill / tap the sucker out. Since you will be using a tap of original size, it won't mess up the iron if you do it carefully.

And nice job. You are one of the true FC na enthusiasts.

 

Nice collection.

Like 88 said, try those easy outs. They didn'y work for me though. I just ended up drilling it out and re-tapping the hole. I had a front sationary gear bolt break during my engine assembly. It went a lot better than I thought it would. Just make sure you gat the right tap and you go slow.

 

Thanks guys, Ill try that easy out..hopefully I can get it. IM not sure that I am going to disassemble the engine or not....so Id really like to get it out now..



As a quote from RarestRX...

N/A powa..every hour!

 

geez, that things spotless

 

NAs rule.... I just took off my sender because it sucks, and I got a mechanical oil pressure guage.

 

Thanks, but I would like to get it out and put a new unit it, mainly because I may be selling the engine, and dont want anything wrong with it. Has anyone else broken one of these off, or am I the only dumbass here...

 

I think the problem is definatly related to the STALL CONVERTER attached to the rear of the engine.

You need to break that off and use it for target practice.

Then you shoud ... uh... fix that oil pressure unit.

 

Haha, yes, the car I pulled it from was an auto. That means it probably wasnt beat on that much