Is it tough to rebuild these engines in general? I am slowly accumulating engines from 2nd gen, cars and They're just sitting around in my garage. I have never rebuilt an engine before, but I figure tearing down these motors might be kinda interesting since otherwise they'd just sit in my garage and rot until I chuck them to the scrap yard. Are there any tutorials or videos (perhaps from a school or university) that gives you some of the basics of the motors? I am trying to just take a laid back approach to learning more about these cars in general.

 

Tear them apart, and look at rotaryressurection.com...
Oh, flames are coming... please try to search...

 

ok, will do. thank you.

 

you can buy the rebuild video from atkinsrotary.com

 

Study FSM (see link in my sig.). Have some fun.

 

+1 on atkins rotary. search for RotaryRessurection's most recent post about rebuilding a motor. It's a long read but it's still one of the best posts in a while.

 

i believe mazdatrix has a video as well.

 

In the middle of a rebuild myself, see sig. Im waiting for parts to come in.

 

buy some beers and a mechanic book like Haynes. Buy also zip lock bags and identify every part. Use your metric tools and you are done. The most difficult parts to remove are the flywheel nut (300 lbs of torque) and the front pulley bolt (a lot of factory thread sealant). If you have a impact gun or knows some one with one you can loose it. Remember, the flywheel nut is a 2 1/8.

 

If you're mechanically inclined, it's no problem.
You just need to be meticulous (if you want the engine to last ), and cleaning everything is 75% of the labor!
Read and reread Rotary Resurrection's write-up, cause all the little tricks are listed there.


-Ted

 

This sounds like it could be fun! I got a compressor and and an air ratche too.

 

BBCC Avation mantinance has a video on how to rebuild a 13b rotery motor... dont ask me why

 

when you pull down your first rotary engine you are going to smile when you see how simple it is to work on .