What a find!
Just like the car you hear of belonging to the little old lady, 1984 GLS, low miles, one fussy owner, always garage kept. All origninal body and paint perfectly straight and not a speck of rust. Beautiful in and out.
BUT IT HASN'T RUN FOR 7 YEARS??!!
What I need to know is what to do before I try to start it so I don't wreck it! I can turn the engine over by hand so its not seezed up. Somebody said take the plugs and squirt some oil in the rotors to give it some lubrication. For any help I will be grateful!!
Zippy

 

Assume the engine needs a rebuild, rotaries don't like sitting for long periods of time and seven years is a very long time.

Putting oil in the spark plugs sounds like a good idea, make sure you do it for each chamber. Put oil in, rotate 360* and repeat twice more. Maybe put some oil in the petrol so the oil injector pump has time to start working.

 

Thanks Mike for the reply
Do you mean putting like a 2 cycle mixing oil in with the fuel? Also have you heard of some thing called seal swell? Apparently its some sort of product that swells up old dried out seals. Anybody tried it?
Thanks again.

 

you wouldn't want to use seal swell. regular oil in the housings, not 2 cycle. i would just lube it and start it. make sure all fluids are topped off and let it warm up fully before you drive it. make sure there isn't anything in the air cleaner assy. that would cause harm to the engine.

 

like dead rodents . . . .

you may have clutch problems too - i had a clutch disc stick to a pressure plate and get ruined after sitting for only 6 months . . .

 

Also, there's a good chance of massive carbon buildup. Don't be suprised if you need to rebuilt it, especially if they didn't rev it up often enough whhile they owned it, or had other treatments done.

 

Thanks all for the replies,
The car has a auto trans, too bad, but no clutch prob.
Somebody told me to turn it over by hand BACKWARDS while spraying some lube in before tring to start it?

 

turn it FORWARD ... put some oil ... turn it FORWARD .. etc.
If it turns, the battle is half-way won.

And do the other obvious stuff: drain tank, new battery, etc etc.

hugues -

 

um there is some stuff you can buy that this guy told me about I think they sell it at rx7.com or something where you spray it in your spark plug holes and you do this for 7 days after witch you turn your car and bam it works. This stuff acutally gets not only the carbon from the bottom broken up but also from the top. He said thats all he uses now. He bought a second gen from a junk yard that had it for a long time and it wouldn't start, after using this stuff it started right up.