What would you do?
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What would you do?
A couple of months ago I posted a thread about my engine running rough and making a bad smell. I finally got a chance today to check on the engines' health. I performed a compression check today and found the rear rotor making 98 psi max on one face. Watching the gauge,with the valve on the gauge open, I could see two low bumps and one high. So I've got a bad apex seal (dammit!). The front rotor maxed out at 120psi(valve closed) with three identical bumps with valve open. So my question is...what would you do?
Do I call Ray Malloy and order a remanufactured engine or do I send it off to get rebuilt? I don't have time to rebuild it myself but I do plan on pulling it out myself.
Do I call Ray Malloy and order a remanufactured engine or do I send it off to get rebuilt? I don't have time to rebuild it myself but I do plan on pulling it out myself.
Last edited by sbnrx7; Jan 19, 2008 at 10:15 PM.
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Will work for horsepower
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Showing my ignorance here but couldn't that be a stuck seal? And can you try the water cleaning thing? He said it had a bad smell maybe running very rich and carboned up. Ive never tried this but you guys have talked about it. And Kevin would be a great choise!
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I don't think it's a stuck seal. The smell......smells like a burning clutch. Something is going on. Just so you know, it makes this smell at idle. It's not a rich mixture smell.