this is why you don't put threadlocker on banjo bolts
#4
i did actually but i should have one here tomorrow from Glen. thought i had some laying around but i guess not.. luckily the engine was out of the bay when i was taking the line off so i didn't smash anything, the line twisted when i tried to remove it from what was left of the pedestal with my 1/2" impact gun in a vice, it has a death grip on there so the line, fitting and pedestal were a total loss.
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Polishing Fiend
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i did actually but i should have one here tomorrow from Glen. thought i had some laying around but i guess not.. luckily the engine was out of the bay when i was taking the line off so i didn't smash anything, the line twisted when i tried to remove it from what was left of the pedestal with my 1/2" impact gun in a vice, it has a death grip on there so the line, fitting and pedestal were a total loss.
L8R,
Crispy
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Polishing Fiend
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but my apologies...I digress...that oil pedestal is a keeper
Crispy
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My favorite is a single 10mm nut. Fell down an intake runner with the UIM off. I had to tear that friggin motor right down to the shortblock turbos, exhaust mani and all and with a small magnet on the end of a string at the end of a fingertip was able to fish it out. It was sitting on the spark plug side of the engine on top of the rotor face. I have that string with that very same nut hanging above my workbench to remind to ALWAYS cover those runners the minute the UIM is removed.
but my apologies...I digress...that oil pedestal is a keeper
Crispy
but my apologies...I digress...that oil pedestal is a keeper
Crispy
ALWAYS tape off open engine holes, ugh, i have never ran an engine personally because i am careful but i have also dropped things down the intake just after removing it and i know your pain of fishing for hours..
another of the best was a motor that came in with a perfect indentation of a 12mm bolt and threads pressed right into the rotor face like it was putty taking an imprint.
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Original Gangster/Rotary!
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Seems like there are a lot of unqualified hacks working on these cars...... we've seen our share of interesting things at IRP. In more than a few cases someone was trying to save themselves $300 and ended up costing themselves $3000
#11
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This also almost happened to me. I bought a Jspec engine a while back, I immedialty tore it down and was going to rebuild it. When I removed the lower intake, there was a 14mm nut sitting in the intake runner in the front cast iron. That would have been very bad if I was not planning on rebuilding the engine!!!
#15
rotors turned out fine.
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