Hi Adam! Long time no talk. Sorry to hear that your coolant seals blew. Are you going to go for OE seals or the ones from Pineapple?

I'm currently rebuilding my motor (again) and I'm going the Pineapple HD seal route.

 

Stage 5 - Going through stages 1-4 and realizing you don't have enough money to fix the car. It then sits for months or years until you get pissed enough to fix it, or pissed enough to sell it. Even if you get it fixed, you ultimately hate rotaries, but still buy the stupid cars over and over for some reason.

...been at that stage for years.

 

Thanks. I'm just going with the stock seals. Since I don't drive it alot, they should last at least another 14 years.

 

My add coolant light has come on twice in the last 3 weeks, but I only have 21,000 on the motor!

 

i feel your pain after buyin my 7 it took a **** after owning it for less than 1k and babying it most of the time

 

Adam

Time to invest all the millions you made on the cheep bastard air intake mod! (LOL)...

Good luck with the rebuild

Jeff

 

I rebuilt my motor (myself) after 80k miles (original engine). It blew the coolant seals on both rotors. Both chambers were full of coolant when I looked in the exhaust ports before tearing it down. When I was cleaning parts I noticed the coolants seals on the rear housing were real hard and baked on. It took a lot of work to get the old seal material cleaned off. So yes I agree it is heat (mostly) and age. The heat eventually hardens the seals and age is contributor too. I did overheat my motor a couple times too a few months before it blew.

So currently I'm at Stage 1 (for oil smoke when cold). But, I am sure its the turbo oil seepage into the exhaust. It can't be the motor! So I will stay at Stage 1 until I get around to pulling the turbos...then it will be Stage 0 I hope.

 

What about the pineapple coolant seals?? Aparently they outlast engines!!



=Ben

 

Reading this thread, I'm starting to believe I definitely have bad seals. Just when I think I've got everything working correctly...