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Old 03-25-07, 08:05 PM
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Help!!!!

ok so today i went out riding!! it has been the warmest day of the year!! 80 degrees!
but.. i stopped my car and rode with my buddy in his 3g eclipse...
well i went back to start my fc and it started but shot off immediately... i thought to myself no biggy just try again... well i did and i heard a loud grinding noise... and thought "o crap"... tryed again... wouldnt start... tryed three more times it wouldnt start... got my buddy and he tried it... it started but the idle bounced from 200-600 rapidly for about 20 seconds... then it idled right... went driving around to see what it done... nothing change. well i shut it off. and went back out 30 minutes later and it did the same thing!!! what is happening here?!?!
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Old 03-25-07, 08:11 PM
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for got to mention... 86 n/a
Old 03-25-07, 08:12 PM
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Check your starter. Mine blew on my Monte and I didn't know what was going on it would start after a few tries but after I did that a couple times it wouldnt at all. When I pulled the starter it had broken 2 teeth off my flywheel I didn't think anything of it and put a new one on... I didn't tighten it enough and it blew more teeth off the flywheel.

If it's grinding when you try to start it should feel like its directly under you.

I am saying from experience on other cars, it's entireally possible I am wrong with the RX7, but I would check it.
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ok will do this weekend or if completely craps on me...
Old 03-26-07, 05:20 PM
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Seriously don't do it till it craps on you, there is a high probability of destroying your flywheel each time you hear the grinding noise. I meen I have driven with up to 6 teeth missing but that was just luck of it starting again and again. Though it your flywheel, do as you will lol
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it hasnt done it again... maybe just a bad tooth on it? although i didn run out of gas :-/ kind of embarrising.
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if you ran out of gas change your fuel filter now before your pump dies.




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