Bob Darrah wrote:

Thanks, Paul.

Yes, I have the Haynes manual,  Bruce's tape, and a 300 ft. pound torque
wrench.  And 18 marked bags of parts (and marked rotors, too!).  I've
almost got the reassembly part of the tape memorized, I view it daily.
The order of reassembly has to be adjusted slightly because of the way
the essentric shaft comes apart but the tape is the best investment I
have made so far.

Sorry about the type size, but some of us old dogs are a little slow to
master these new fangled things.  Will try to figure out what I push to
fix it.

Thanks, again.

Bob Darrah

Heck I would clean it up, put new rubber O-rings in the side
oil seals and the water jacket end housings, and it should 
run just fine. Spend a little more and buy the Hayes Rotary
Engineering teflon coated silicone rubber seals just 
for your experience and our education :-)

What do the tension bolts look like? Just curious.
Are they necked down between sandwich joints?

Kind of weird about the carbon distribution on the rotors. 
I wonder what caused that? Do you think the oil injectors were 
plugged? Are there three or six small plastics hoses
coming out of the apex seal, lube oil injection pump?

And all apex seals look OK? Strange.

Another possibility. Check the eccentric shaft rotor
cooling squirters to see if the middle and rear are plugged.

Could be someone never changed the oil.

Paul Lamar
 
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