engine hunting

[g11ary]

Right you buggers, no more talk of funning sounding bongy up and down thingys, cant even bring myself to say it. Oh feel quite sick!

Hers are some piccys, first one, me on the beach, no sorry.
Ok now pay attention at the back.
piccy hose001 hose on servo circled 7, has no cracks and is on solid, but has a hard lump in it, should this be correct?
piccy hose002 all circled are on firm and no visible splits, the fury on is fluid anyway, no fooling me then.
piccy hose003 all circled all on firm and conected to map sensor/s
piccy hose004 just looked pretty, but circled once again for pleasure is lump in servo hose.
Also checked manifold on tight.

Please come back. My hands now have greese on them and want to be done with it before someone sees me like it :rollin

[g11ary]

piccy001

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piccy002

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piccy003

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piccy004

[antnicuk]

Hi gary,
the lump in the hose is a one way valve so that you dont force boost in to the brake servo.     If it isnt that then i dont know what else to try.  It could be a hole in the brake servo somewhere which is allowing air in your engine on the vacume side and cause you to have no brakes.

[antnicuk]

just thought,  if you pull the hose off the brake servo, block it off with a bolt or something and see if your idle comes back to normal. If it does then it is servo thats perished or corroded.

[Iwan]

Originally posted by gsb876
Gary,

I may get crucified for this but here goes, i have been recently thinking about all the probs the rx\'s have with the engines, and came to the thought that if my engine was to go i would not get a rebuild but look for a alternative engine to replace the rotary.
May sound daft depending on room under the bonnet but i have a feeling the Escort Cosworth engine would fit (block) out goes the air con and stuff in comes the main block and all else.
My main reason for buying a rx was not the fact its a rotary but the fact it looks like the dogs......

What you think, no more petrol worries to an extent and reliability higher as i had a escort cosworth before.

haha ! LOL !
please pay attention to my signature wich means:

NO ROTOR, NO MOTOR !

Iwan

PS. Sorry Gary, for no useable info to your problem. I think, it would be the best to take the car to Carl ?!

[g11ary]

Thanks Iwan but Carl built my engine and I know its not an engine problem, its got to be sometime simple. But not as simple as me around cars :rollin  Plus without having a transporter take it there, its a bit difficult driving it there with the engine hunting as your constantly surging foward in the car, and hard work with next to no brakes.

[antnicuk]

Gary
did you try my test with the brake servo vacume pipe?
tony

[g11ary]

No, sorry, been at work and just not had time, See you guys at pod tomorrow, I\'ll be the sado in the lexus 430.

[g11ary]

well i have used my best mechanical skills and cant see a thing wrong, so 2 days ago started her up to see if I could hear anything, on started and run sweet, so drove down road 2miles fine, To day took her to work 8 miles either way and for 16-20 miles been fine. Gonig for a 20-30 mile blat tonight see what happens. Weird.

[eatmyrx7dust]

I don\'t the rx is any less reliable than any similar performance car. How much does a porker or ferrari or TVR (i threw the TVR in to balance!) engine rebuild cost ?
and if you want a ford engine, buy a ford.
.....uuuuummm, I luuuuv my RX:p

[bobster]

Originally posted by g11ary
well i have used my best mechanical skills and cant see a thing wrong, so 2 days ago started her up to see if I could hear anything, on started and run sweet, so drove down road 2miles fine, To day took her to work 8 miles either way and for 16-20 miles been fine. Gonig for a 20-30 mile blat tonight see what happens. Weird.

Just a thought if the car is running fine now but....... when you were tinkering did you by any chance cut yourself and bleed on the engine. It seems to apease my engine when I bleed into the engine bay;)

[g11ary]

Ohhh beleive you me, they have bled me.

Went 7oaks last night running fine.