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Old 06-05-06, 09:30 PM
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rebuild just blew?

I am pretty sure I just spent a year and a half and who knows how many thousand dollars on something that just blew. I was haveing problems before but we got them sorted. Iddeld and ran great. just a little hot start problem. So with 550km on the rebuild driveing like a grandma, today I left my house, started great. ran good for about 2 min. Then a TERRIBLE grinding noise, tons of backfires and power loss. I shut it down right away and towed it home. I dont have a compression tester. But I dont think I need one. When I go to start it, it just back fires and grindes. So I guess its blown. Right? Could have been the OMP, OMP lines? I dont friggin know. any thoughts.
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its not the OMP, thats for sure
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I ment, it not delivering oil and then it not getting oil and just grinding? Thats not possible?
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it's possible you havent blown it, but that sure is a symptom of an apex seal that broke....

when my rebuild is complete, i sure as hell wont drive it like a grandma... ill use synthetic oil and premix and drive it slightly above a moderate level
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try premix and see... that and a compression tester are ur best bets right now
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thrust plate? stat gear? could be lots of things....sounds sort of like it might have thrown an apex seal...but like i said, it could be many things...
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i didn't acctually meen grandma. I ment trying to drive it below boost. and shifting before 4K . I just dont know. The first time it blew I could hear the apex seal but it wasn't like this. This is like part of the rotar broke off and is bouncing around. Sound wise I meen. Its friggin LOUD.
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try rotating the engine by hand to see if you can verify the noise is coming from INSIDE the engine. if it is, you need to rebuild it, bottom line.
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I figure I do. I just dont want to spend all that money again. Although anyone else figure my warenty should be good?
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depends where u got it done
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where did you get it done?
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I was dumb, well mabey not dumb. But I wanted to support a new business. Triangels of Fury built it. He gave me a year warenty. I have it in the contract. But that wont help if the guy wont return my calls or e-mails. He lives 3 provences away.
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PM Kahren or go http://www.rotaryresurrection.com/ or PM 1Revin7.

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are you sure all that grinding and clunking and backfiring isnt from a blown Tranny?! thats what mine sounded like...
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