what is it?
>
> http://tinyurl.com/w5mcp
>
> jofarr, soddy tn
>
> Not a rotary part.
> --
> Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

> It's a special tool that inserts in the starter location to rotate
> the engine backwards when the rotary gets carbon locked.
>
> Bob Mears
> Supermarine Spitfire
>
>
> Thanks Bob.
> How many people on here have experienced carbon lock?
> I never have in over a million miles with seven different
> engines.
>
> Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.


Is a carbon locked engine worth anything? What needs to be replaced?

I don't have one, just curious. I am looking at wrecked/"junk" RX7s
and might need to know in the future.

Doc Custer
Retired software engineer and sometime Audiologist
Building RV9-A. Fuselage

The vast majority engines you find in junk yards are not carbon
locked but merely rusted internally and locked. Best to buy one
in a car that is running.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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I never ran into an engine that needed this tool.
Well .... ya know how the Manufacturers run a racket forcing dealer /
franchisees to buy tool sets ?
Maybe this was just thrown in to up the dollar value of the tool set ?

Bruce Toski



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