MazdaRx7Power

ok so i have a small oil leak, looks like from under the filter. i go buy the o-rings. so i'm here tryin to take the bolts off for like 2 hrs. and boom one of the bolts just stripped, so i got pissed as hell. i try the other one and same ****. so i'm like **** this, theirs nothing else i can do so i grabbed some rtv and put it all around it. i know this isnt the best thing to do, but it will have to do for now. hopefully it doesnt leak. but to all that wanna change it, its a pain in the ***.

Samps

be sure you are spinning the bolts right! if you are doing it from above the car then everything is backwards. i just did mine and i was tighening them at first; then i said to myself "you are a dumbass" and i got the job done in under an hour. i took my time just to make sure that is was done right. i also cleaned up alot of the oil that had seeped out over the years.

lefty loosey; righty tighty

rx7_turbo2

The job is a huge pain in the *** plain and simple. A few things that might help are:

1) It's a 10mm nut.
2) Use a stubby wrench
3) Even better Mastercraft has those new rachet action stubby wrench's they worked really well.
4) Every thing is backwards if your working from above.

Hope that helps

Gefunk

Ummm... all jobs on a car take a while. So just take your time and it usually comes out right. The Idiot who had my car before me never changed his plugs, good thing he only had it a year. So it took me like 2 days to get four plugs out. Anyway with bad o-rings around the filter, will this cause bad oil pressure?

tesla042

Probably not.. I had it "really bad"..it dripped maybe 1 drop/3 seconds at idle, and 1 drop/1 second at higher pressure... that's not going to affect the pressure reading, but it's going to make you fill it back up every other day..

http://haxx0r.net/car/rx7/oil_ring

-Tesla

LoSRx7

I just did this o-ring replacement, but it still leaks a little out of the lower right corner. i'm going to try this silicon around that corner that "forms a gasket" to close off that corner. I tightned those bastards as much as i could, but its still slowly leaking through that lower right corner..

Has anyone found a leak around the oil pump??? I have small leak there too, but if anyone knows any probs around that area, it would be nice to know what i should look for. Else im going to take that whole thing out this sunday. Let me know. thanks.

rx7_turbo2

There can be a couple things that leak from around the OMP.

1)The big "O" ring on the OMP itself.
2)The small "O" rings on either side of the OMP's body.
3)The oil line situated right by the OMP.
4)The oil pan might also be a culprit.