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i thought it was the starter but that wasnt the case. the pulley for the fly wheel wont budge. i dont know anything about these cars and i am stumped.
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Rotary engines some times seize up due to too much carbon build up, or if they sit too long, they can rust and seize up that way.If it may be the carbon build up, you can buy some diesel and put it in the exhaust ports, intake ports, and the spark plug holes and try to loosen it up this way get as much in there as you can. Since the rotors are triangular, you will need to make sure you put the diesel in each of the 6 chambers.
Try working the flywheel back and forth and see if you can't get it to budge. If you do get it turning, then get it freed up enough to start and then drive it hard. Rev it up and burn all of the carbon out. and as always with a rotary, make sure you have plenty of oil since it is injected directly into the engine from the crankcase to lubricate the seals.
If you can not get it to budge, then your only option is going to be to rebuild or replace the motor.
Good luck, hope that helps.
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Lots of miles or you threw a rod or possibly you somehow got something besides oil in the crankcase. Anti freeze can do this and you may have had a bad head gasket, causing the anti freeze to go into the crankcase. There is nothing you can do now except rebuild the motor but if you are curious try draining the oil and seeing how it looks.**********edit**********... I am sorry I didnt realize this was the rx7. I know what a rotary engine is but thanks for correcting medoes anyone know about a saturn car that uses a cadilac engine?
it sounds like the rotary engine has seized up. this happened to my friend who didn't make sure that it was warmed up before giving it a bootful of gas. Get it to a Mazda workshop as these rotary engines do wear out the seals and seize upHow long did the car sit before you attempted to start it? Depending on how long it sat, how hot the engine was before it was shut-down, it could be a few different things. It sounds like the apex seals have seized onto the rotor housings. You would need to pull the upper plugs on both housings and spray some Wd-40 or similar in to them, let it sit for a while, then try spining the engine over a few times by hand to see if it breaks loose. If it does break loose, you may want to then pour a small amount of automatic tranny fluid into each housing to help lubricate the seals some upon start up. Without knowing the actual condition of the car, other history, ect, its really hard to tell if its the engine itself that is seized causing the problem. This could also be due to a manual transmission stuck in gear with the clutch not releasing, but again, I can only go off what you give me.
EDIT - On the guy who answered with thrown rods, bad headgasket, ect....this is a ROTARY engine, which means it has two rotors and an ecentric shaft, no rods, no pistons, no "headgasket" by technical terms, nor valves, a cam, timing belt, etc.....
What happened is the coolant seal let go and flooded the engine with coolant. This is a typical occourance in high-mileage 7's. The rotor, now being hydrolocked is keeping the crank to move. Just go to www.rx7club.com, and you'll learn everything you need to in the 2nd gen section. Also, don't get scared away from the car because of the unconventional engine, they are quite simple and easy to work on, as well as reliable to over 200k miles in many cases on the stock engine in non-turbo form. I love mine to death, and had a hell of alot of fun rebuilding the motor. It's sooo easy when you don't have a valve trane to deal with and only 3 moving parts.
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Sounds like a bad seal.If the Rx is a high mileage one you probably got it hydolocked.
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