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10-11-2008, 12:19 PM

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j9fd3s

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Originally Posted by heretic' post='909693' date='Oct 10 2008, 05:43 PM

I'm **** retentive, when I pull an OEM engine apart, I mark the rotors as to their orientation in the engine... which tip was down on one rotor and which one was up on the other rotor, as well as which was was front and rear. That way I'm super special sure that it will go back together the way Mazda did.

I even do it for previously screwed with engines, only because that way I keep the habit. Kinda like using the turn signal even though it's 3am and there's nobody around for miles. And I'm in a parking lot.

i dont mark the rotors, i just place things on an old fast food tray in the right order.

but really most of my technique involves putting everything back where i found it. IMO if you're not doing that you really increase your chances of weird problems, and you'd get points deducted at the next concours

10-11-2008, 02:15 PM

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i actually did mark them. but during cleaning that all got removed...

10-12-2008, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by sen2two' post='909727' date='Oct 11 2008, 12:15 PM

i actually did mark them. but during cleaning that all got removed...

i also clean the rotors one at a time. basically if you think about what you dont like about this build, you can do something to fix that next time you build an engine.

my friend has a tray for each rotor, actually 2, so he can lay the seals out on each side for each rotor, and they go back in the right places, kind of like the mazda seal case, without the case.

actually have a read thru the FSM they have a good way to organize things too

10-12-2008, 11:43 PM

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There are numbers on the rotors' sides. One through six, odds and evens. I always manage to not have my engine notebook handy when I pull an engine apart, but I mark on my rotor tray which rotor tip was pointing where.