why you can't rebuild a blown seal engine...
03-18-02, 07:49 PM
#1
SOLD THE RX-7!
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 7,451
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
why you can't rebuild a blown seal engine...
this thing has been sitting in my room for months and I finaly just took some pics for something else. this is what happens when your seal blows. by by rotor housing!!
03-18-02, 08:16 PM
#3
Banned. I got OWNED!!!
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: charlotte
Posts: 625
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I think mine was worse than that on my old car. I found chunks of apex in the precat, two rotor tips were trashed, and the housing were scuffed all over the place.
edit: I guess that driving it around the neighborhood after it died didnt help much
edit: I guess that driving it around the neighborhood after it died didnt help much
03-18-02, 10:46 PM
#5
Rotary Freak
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: LA.,California USA
Posts: 1,611
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
When i took my last motor apart i actually saw a piece of apex seal imbeded on the rotor!..ohhh and my rotor housing was worst than the one in the picture.
Trending Topics
03-19-02, 01:48 AM
#9
Rotary Enthusiast
iTrader: (2)
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Altadena, CA
Posts: 932
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
hehe, I still have to take pictures of mine, but they're far worse 
The rear rotor housings was awesomely screwed up, and all three of the apex seal grooves in the rotor are trashed. There are bits of seal in the rotor, and gouges all over the place.
That must have made an AWESOME sound when it went (i bought the car used, so i didn't have the pleasure of experiencing it...)
Manolis
The rear rotor housings was awesomely screwed up, and all three of the apex seal grooves in the rotor are trashed. There are bits of seal in the rotor, and gouges all over the place.That must have made an AWESOME sound when it went
(i bought the car used, so i didn't have the pleasure of experiencing it...)Manolis
03-19-02, 01:56 AM
#10
1JZ powered
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Where there's only two seasons, hot and wet! I love Okinawa
Posts: 4,423
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Normally I take blown rotor housings/rotors, clean them up real good, paint the outside of the rotor housing, put the rotor inside the rotor housing, and then turn them into a clock
03-19-02, 08:47 AM
#11
Old [Sch|F]ool
my7.rx-7.org/PJ (so it's not an FC, but it IS blowed up ) No TRACE of the blown apex seal in the engine... every piece of it gone, but the spring was still lodged in there... you can see where it got stuck between the rotor and the housing, and it actually punched a hole in the rotor face in at least one spot.
I wonder... I have an engine that still has compresson on one face of the rear rotor. Given that, one would think that the rotor housing would still be good, since the two remaining seals still build good compression. Then again, maybe not. (One of these days I'll take that engine apart to see)
) No TRACE of the blown apex seal in the engine... every piece of it gone, but the spring was still lodged in there... you can see where it got stuck between the rotor and the housing, and it actually punched a hole in the rotor face in at least one spot.I wonder... I have an engine that still has compresson on one face of the rear rotor. Given that, one would think that the rotor housing would still be good, since the two remaining seals still build good compression. Then again, maybe not. (One of these days I'll take that engine apart to see)
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Jeff20B
1st Generation Specific (1979-1985)
73
09-16-18 07:16 PM