My Ae Is Dead
05-20-2003, 01:38 AM
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My girlfriend and I were going camping this weekend, and my car was running kind of shitty after driving for almost 60 miles. So I pulled off the highway in a small town. As soon as I pushed in the clutch the car died. After poking around, I tried starting the car back up, and it wouldn't start. After almost 10 min of ******* around, I got the car to start. But it was making a loud clanking sound and real bad vibration. The clanking and vibration would increase with the revs. I looked under the hood, and noticed that the eccentric pulley was wobbling around quite a bit. Well, I decided to try and drive it back to try and get closer to home. The car had no power whatsoever, luckily I was comming down from a mountian pass. I ended up driving it over 30 miles back to the "city" before the car wouldn't even keep up with cars on the freeway. I had it in 3rd gear, and had it floored, and the revs were still dropping. So I pulled it over on the shoulder. I looked under the hood, and it looked like oil had been leaking out behind the eccentric pulley. I ended up getting towed the rest of the way back home by my girlfriends uncle. I checked the compression just for the hell of it (i knew the engine was toast) and I have no compression at all on the front rotor, and I only get one good bounce, 80+ psi, and that is it. I think I'll prolly end up going through Pineapple for a rebuilt. I'm just glad I've got another car to drive around. 
05-20-2003, 02:05 AM
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Its a sign from the gods above in the heavens of rotary bliss! We must now push forth and rebuild! Rebuild to be the greatest of all rotary engines in the cosmos! AE will live again!
*starts a AE ressurection fund*
anyone wanna donate?
*starts a AE ressurection fund*
anyone wanna donate?
05-20-2003, 04:04 AM
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Ouch!
My '89 is down for the count to. The injectors are possibly toasted on my car. The engine seems fine, it's just not getting any fuel. Maxxed out inj. only last so long I guess.
Well, why fix it when you can upgrade it? Time to make it better than ever.
My '89 is down for the count to. The injectors are possibly toasted on my car. The engine seems fine, it's just not getting any fuel. Maxxed out inj. only last so long I guess.
Well, why fix it when you can upgrade it? Time to make it better than ever.
05-20-2003, 11:11 AM
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Pineapple is the ONLY place you should be going to. If you are ever in Portland, OR make it a point to drop by his shop and check it out. Ever hear of anybody with ANY issues about Pineapple? I haven't. Atkins has been known to use used parts and pass them off as new in rebuilds. A buddy of mine (he knows more about rotaries than most anybody I know and he knows what he saw) saw housings set aside for rebuilds that had minimal flaking on them when he was on a tour of the shop. I know this is hearsay but I trust this guy when he talks rotary. These housings were close to the end of their lives but still being passed off as new because the flaking was within spec - barely within spec. Who knows what else they reuse?
05-20-2003, 01:06 PM
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I don't think it was the apex seals, because of the wobbling. I was thinking it was from a bearing failing too. There was almost 70k on this engine, it had been rebuilt about 40k before I bought it. I had my boost contoller set at about 10 - 11 psi, so I wasn't even boosting high.