The trepidation and sense of doom when thinking about overhauling a rotary, is like that in you first solo flight, when the instructor stepped out and said take it around once. The distance between that moment, and the feelings right after that first successful flight, are not unlike the disparity between disassembly and running in your first rebuilt engine. There was never anything to dread. It is the same experience for everyone. The parts count of a rotary is so low, that there is a real disapointment at the end of the disassembly process. The oil pump/chain/sprockets/spacers is a more complex
assembly than the rest of the engine.

With the correct tools you can strip one to zero assemblies in less than one hour.

Once you have done it a few times, you can reassemble it in less than three hours.
I am not the fastest builder on earth and I can do it in the dirt at a race track on a pickle bucket. (the number one most popular rotary engine stand). If you have ever done a piston engine, this is less than half as difficult in complexity, time, and parts count. It is a joy to work on. It is easy to understand. The first time you get one apart, you will be grinning from ear to ear and wondering why you didn't do this years ago.

Watch Bruces video. Buy the big socket and the 1/2" adaptor at Sears. Buy an engine from the core pile at the junk yard. Jump in. A great way to blow a Saturday, and you will love it. This is better than any piston engine for powering airplanes.

I am in the middle of changing houses right now, and then building a new house on Florida (cannot stand the cold anymore) but after that if you want to stop in and build and engine from start to finish, there are always enough parts here to do just that. Or get you picture sitting in the race car. What ever. Come on down. If you gort the impression that I am enthusiastic about the rotary, you are correct.


Lynn E. Hanover