Royce Wise wrote:

Well Tracy's book showed up in our mail box today, fast shipping.
Have read part of it but still haven't had time for the rest.
We are building a new engine shop building and it is not complete yet, but did
take some time this afternoon to disassemble our 12A. The other engine is still in
the car and haven't gotten back to it yet.
We have been anxious to see the inside of a rotary, and finally took the time this
afternoon to do it.
The engine is very clean inside, the side housings are slick, no ridges or
apparent wear (not checked in depth yet)
The front rotor and housing  was full of some brown pasty stuff and the apex seal
on one apex and one oil ring was stuck in place with it.
The rotor and main bearings are fine, the e shaft looks great. The gears look fine
as well. The rotor housing chrome looks great  no flaking, or scoring.
May be a good engine to experement with.
It got dark on us ( no lights in our new shop yet) so we stopped there.
Royce

You are lucky Royce. Usually they are gunked up inside from burning that
crap out of the oil sump and EGR. It usually takes longer by a factor
of ten just cleaning the rotors than taking it apart and putting it back
together again. Wait till you disable the EGR and start burning two
cycle oil. You can then eat off the rotors. I think these are the main
reasons a lot of apex seals stick when people don't run them on a regular
basis.

Paul Lamar

 
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