mojono0

I toasted the rear rotor and housing in my 85 gs. I can post pics if anyone wants to see my handy work.

I found a junked 83, so here's the questions can i just replace the rotor and housing and be on my merry way? Or are there gotchas?

Can a rotor/housing still be good from a engine that's sat for a few years?

Anything else that should be replaced while I have everything apart?

I miss my 7 bad, nothing else like it.

hornbm

Nope, you cant just rebuild half the motor. The minute you pull the tension bolts out of that motor, things become lossended. So if you got a rebuild kit, you could use the housing and rotor from the 83. Not a problem there.

peejay

the '83 and '85 engines are identical, so there's no worries.

Except.

You better hope that that '83 engine has a good rear rotor and housing. Or at least, a good rear rotor. The housings can be swapped, but the rotors are very asymmetrical and they are definite "front" and "rear" rotors. I am sure you've already noted this, having torn down the dead engine, but it bears repeating for good measure.

FC Wanna-B

i don't see why you just don't take the 83 engine and just swap the engines out i mean if the 83 is a good engine and it's the same as your GS engine then swap em... you already have the engine out anyways.