i figure well laugh at each others misfortune...
there was the guy who stripped out a leading sparkplug hole and needed a rebuild.
then i was spraying out my engine bay and shorted out my wiring harness...yeah about that...

how about you guys...

 

Lets see .......... My first rx7, payed $2k for it and drove it for 6 months. Then it died, I had a broken leg so couldnt fix it myself. It sat until we moved which was 4 months, so I had to get rid of it for $250. A week later after I had moved, a friend tells me he seen it driving. First thing I thought about was, oh yeah he said he thinks its the coil packs. FFS.

 

efan not installed with proper spacers. every time we hit a bump the metal clip holding the blades on the pin from the motor, well the metal clip scraped the fins.

 

oh and there was that one time my car wasnt running for 3 weeks. wouldnt idle.
turns out it was the large hose that comes from the intake all the way to the driver side of the plenum on an 87 n/a. it wasnt hooked up. slipped off. HUGE vac leak so very obious

 

I had to replace the master cylinder for my clutch, low and behold the 2 nuts under the dash were....guess.......STRIPPED, stupid mechanic, took me 3 and a half hours of my *** on the ground and my back on the floor of my car with my hands up under my dash because there wasnt enough space inbetween the nut and the surrounding **** for me to get a stripped nut remover in there PLUS a socket wrench PLUS the stripped nut remover had to be DEEP cuz of the dam screw that went into it.

Anyway I finally got the old master cylinder off only to figure out that NOBODY in my area (Carson California) had a stock master cylinder. 3 Kragens 2 Auto zones 2 NAPA's.... so i had to order one and come back the next day pick it up pay for it.... put it on and BLEED the son of a bitch which took forever..

GOD DAMN CLUTCHES TO HELL!!!

 

I'm not sure I should say this ...

I've blown my freshly rebuilt engine because of a missing washer.

 

I always seem to break off bolts.

 

ALWAYS USE A 19 MIL AND SPIN THAT BITCH FIRST!

 

changed the transmission.put on a TII trans from an N/A trans..changed flywheel,put on a counterweight,new clutch.Got it all together ..Started the car and WHIRRRRR!..the damn Throw out Bearing was Screwed,,had to REDO everything ia had done..all over again..in teh driveway ,,all alone..That totally SUXT!

 

hahaha. Advice taken, those starters sure are strong. Anyway I now have the money to make another try.

 

when i got my tii it was blown and i used a 19mm to check for that. i took all manafolds and turbo off. and viewed the blown rotor threw the exhaust manafold. a day after doing so i went to use a 19mm to spin it over to make myself more depressed. engine wouldnt turn but 3/4 of a turn in either direction
when i took it apart i found a nut in it.

now i always use a 19mm to check. and paper towles in the ports

 

^I prefer tape.

 

touched my tps ...

 

hehe. ya that works too.but all my tape is reserved for when i paint my rx7s hahaha
btw. what the crap happend to that engine!!!! its all oxidized and looking icky!

 

Went to replace the pulleys with a serpetine kit (the hub on the E-shaft pulley needs to be removed). A 30 min job turned into a 6 hour job, just because I forgot to hold the hub\counter weight key while removing the hub...

BAM, ended up having to remove the front cover!!!

To add to the insult, when everything was said and done, the e shaft front bolt copper washer was squashed upon reassembly

 

the light switch fried
ordered a new one plus the hd relay from icemark
upon pulling things apart I found the lighting harness was fried at one end
clipped in a known good end (and the relay) I got from a friend
didn't work
ordered a new lighting harness, undid the realy from the old harness put it on the new
works great
EVERY peice of plastic I touched broke, especially the ones that hold the guage cluster surround in place
so now there are frankenstein looking things made of nuts and washers sticking out of the dash over the guage cluster
3 month ordeal where I couldn't drive the car at night

 

Well I was trying to fix my radio and some how my power windows stopped working and the light switch on top fuse popped. I don't get how his type of stuff happen. Oh yeah, my light switch got fried in the rain. It almost caught on fire. **** looks so bad and I STILL dont know how to fix it. Can't drive at night right now..

 

ya that happened to me too my top light fried when i changed my radio in my 86 but thank god i got manual windows

 

Well it did spend over a year without moving before I bought it but other than that who knows, rust isn't rare over here.

 

order a new (rebuilt) light switch and relay from icemark
order a new light harness - mazdatrix

 

Someone clue me in on the 19mm thing...maybe I missed a thread on it. It's probably something obvious, but tell me anyway.

Oh, and mark up another one under the "spacer wedged behind bearing" column.

 

^Spinning the engine with a 19mm wrench to make sure it's turning freely before starting it.

 

i blew a coolant seal due to the 90* UIM to block coolant hose being kinked. i kept overheating and couldn't figure out why, so i tried checking everything until eventually, like a dumbass i overheated and you know the rest.

 

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...=stupid+owners

Have fun laughing.

 

i have personally seen a rotor from an engine whose owner tried to install traditional spark plugs, then started it. it was a mess.