jhammons01

Hey Forum!! I have the short block together and back on the stand ready for intake etc.

I wanted to thank you guys for the help. Some of the help was intentional. Some of the help came from YOU having a problem and posting it. The answers that people gave you helped me.

I promise you, with out this forum there would not have been any chance in hell I would have been able to do this. I have no access to a shop since coming here to Cali.

My uncle owned a VW, Audi, Porsche dealership in Texas, so building bug motors was always real easy seeing as I had been sent to Wolfsberg for Tech Training in the 70s.

This Rotary was something really different, there are just things that you cannot know about this motor.

If you ask me now. I would encourage anybody to build a motor. Just get the video and join this forum.

Again, Thank you. This has been fun for me and my 12 and 9 year old boys

I hope it starts

RotaryEvolution

iTrader: (30)

ahhh! we are killing our potential customers off by helping them rebuild their own engines.... j/k glad you got it all done and didn't run into any huge problems along the way.

hondahater

iTrader: (2)

nice! good job man! I hope to do this same thing as soon as my engine goes! Good luck with the break in!

jhammons01

Holy ****, why are those pics soooo big when you click on them??? I didn't want everybody to see how dirty the motor was. Crap!

jhammons01

Want to make sure all hours get the Thank you

jhammons01

Wire harness. exhaust, most of the intake, water pump, MOP pump (with home made oil lines, ask if your interested) housing oil nozzles, few other things but too tired to type. MAY be ready to go in Tomorrow.

bcool

I'd say now is a great time to go premix. Nice job BTW

jhammons01

Here are some old photos. Before I broke it down. I didn't get any pix of the insides. I wish I had taken some

TiGeRC|aw

so is that pink bike your ride?

jhammons01

Here are the final pics before I put it in. I have it on the floor so I could torque the flywheel nut.

Check out the torque wrench.......725 ftlbs

jhammons01

A man has to get to work! Good thing my catalogues fit in the little basket

jhammons01

Some more shots

The bike is ready for work in the morning.......soon I'll have the rex back up and running and I'll give the bike back to my two year old

RotaryEvolution

iTrader: (30)

lol


looks good

jhammons01

thanks for the comments

Here is MY bike

T2monster

an auto car? darn, time for the swap parts. lol good looking rebuild.

BlaCkPlaGUE

ahahahah, nice bike man, BOTH of em. lol
Judging from the pics you had bad oil seals? you can see oil seaping all over and inside of the exhuast ports.

btw, that torque wrench is freakin HUGE!!!
Did you need a breaker bar for the 300 some odd pounds of torque for the flywheel?

jhammons01

No That torque wrench goes to 750 lbs by itself. No breaker needed. With that thing it felt like the E-shaft was going to twist in half. Like a bolt when it breaks.....snap. But it didn't it just kept turning until the "click",,,,,,,done.

Yes, the oils seals were bad/cracked, I was using about a quart of oil per tank of gas. Towards the end it was fill the oil tank and and by the way check the gas.

The front Iron was also broken. right in the area where everybodies seal goes out. Mine had a 3/4" piece missing and the coolant seal was rotted away. Had to replace the front Iron. Luckily I found one for $25 locally

Thank all of you for the comments, it is appreciated.

felixwankel88

looks awsome let up know how the inital start goes(make shure u have oil pressure and everything)

jhammons01

^ your front cover shouldn't be anything, especially for guy that can pull an engine in two hours!!

felixwankel88

i pulled it in 2 hrs and took me 5 hrs to get it in lol

jhammons01

Now your scaring me. It took me a coule of days to pull the engine. Does that mean its going to take 5-7 days to get it back in???

RotaryEvolution

iTrader: (30)

depends how nit picky you are, i took my time detailing the engine before putting it in and it took about a week of after work installation time to get it all back together. usually takes me about 4-5 hours to get the engine back in and running.

jhammons01

I hope to have everything clean before I start to drop it in. The motor is clean and after a night if cleaning 3/4 of the engine bay is clean. The only 1/4 left is the driver side where all the hoses and wires are. I got tired and left it last night.

That crossmember was 1/2" thick with grime. I was trying to clean it with a rag but it is easier to scrape off becuase it is soo thick. Nasty.

The cool thing is that under the oil everything is like new with the exception of the white paint being stained yellow from the oil.