Hey guys,



I was degreasing my shortblock and took out the two air bleeds. One of which decided to break into 4 peices... mazdatrix wants 22$+shipping for it..



Is there a better option? Anybody make metal ones?



Thanks in advance, i know its kind of a stupid question.



=Ben

 

Negative - never ever saw these in metal. Call Ray and order new ones. This is not uncommon to have them shatter. They get hardened over time from the heat.


LAter

 

Be glad it didnt break and fall into your motor while you were cruising down the highway.....seen that happen a few times, it really does a number on the apex seals.

 

Mmmm...getting ready to reassemble my engine and feeling alot better about removing (apparently) good ones and replacing them since they came in the gasket/O-ring kit.

 

Ha, your complaining about 22 bucks? Thats awesome. I just spent over $700 to do my front brakes.

 

Wtf? How did you accomplish that? I take it you don't do your own work? ouch. my old man just spent a chunk of change to have the front brakes done on his lexus, so I suppose that isn't unheard of.......

 

If you pissed about $22 you shouldn't own a fd, or a car at all for that matter.

 

Nope, do all my own work. Look up the prices for the Stillen/AP BBK. You can only buy the rotors from one place in the US. They pretty much set the price. That was just the friction surfaces as the hats were still fine. ****, the new disk mounting hardware was close to $100 alone.

 

I'm with uncle. Man up and buy a new part.

 

Well my i had my engine core on my work desk (oil pan removed) and i i tried to wiggle it out of the secondary ports... the air bleed on the secondary port on the rear rotor tool a LOT of force to get out!!


As soon as it broke i thought "ohhh shizzen, i hope nothing got in my housings". But it broke up into two faily big peices, so i was able to get everything out. I also blew compressed air in the Primary port on the same rotor to try and get anything small out of the secondary port.



I think/hope i got everything!.



Well i was expecting them to be a lot cheaper then that... and i was hoping that for the same stupid price i would be able to get metal ones.. but no such luck..


That is rather a large assumption 'Uncle Ignorant'. I have just spent $5000 in reliability mods for my FD... that is rich rich rich rich mans reliability mods for the record.

As i say above, i am looking for a better product that WILL NOT disintegrate into my engine after time.





=Ben

 

How old was the piece you were taking out? After 12 years or so it probably should have been replaced anyway. I can understand your concern with the plastic piece.

-Dan

 

Wow. I run the Racing Brake BBK, and their parts are quite a bit less expensive than that.

 

I was under the impression the OP wanted something metal, not necessarily cheaper.

I'd be interested as well since a metal piece very unlikely to break apart and fall into the motor.

 

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Ya like i say... I would love to see someone on the forums start making these out of metal.



Anybody know a good fabricator!!




=Ben

 

Yeah I got the same impression, and in addition, I dont think he was pissed that they cost $22, i think its the fact that such a small plastic piece that costs a dime to manufacture it being sold for that much. It's all relative my friends.

But I guess we own FDs cause we like throwing money away