Seal organization
 

With a nice four day weekend I got to have this weekend, I was able to spend some quality time with my daughter AND get a few things taken care of in the garage.

Something that I've been wanting to do for a while now is come up with a way to organize the seals during a rebuild. The Mazda factory seal boxes are nice, but at $100 on a box, it seems a bit overkill.

I use a nice metal workbench that I got at an auction for $25 for engine builds.... it has a nice pull out drawer that for a while was used as storage for misc parts and junk but I'm getting ORGANIZED finally.

I took the idea from the Mazda factory seal box and made this:

http://www.findtuners.com/FCProject/sealdrawer.jpg

I'm working on organizing rotors, bearings, etc as well to keep engine parts separated based on generation/type as well. The drawer has enough room to hold about 9 rotors, all bearings, all seals and dowels, etc.

Just thought I'd share the idea and I'm curious what others have done to organize seals during a build...

Pizza box and a sharpie works for me in a pinch ;)

I RARELY re-use seals, so it's a non event for me. i just lable them after they've beed fit and then I stack the short block, so I'm not storing them for very long. But if I were, that would be a good way to do it.

Well.. U know how long I take on things lol...

Also.. Thus way I can clearance everything and drop it where it goes and come back the next day or so to stack..

See my avatar.

Or ill keep the seals on the rotor with help of rubber bands.

I made a really nice one out of a cigar box and some paint stirrer sticks, I'll take a pic of it and post it up super simple to make and only cost a few bucks.

I used cigar boxes too, but no dividers, lol... didn't prove very useful for me :)

I like the diagram of the rotor.. I know another builder who uses drawings on cardboard ;)

I also used tape to hold them in place since my shop is so piled up that I can't see the floor unless I move the FD outside.

Shouldn't you be driving the 9 hours back here instead of surfing the web? Hope all went well today...

any luck I won't have a car to drive. Time to buy new shoes.