Rebuild question

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scratches, grooves if they miss apex seals when you open the block.

those are the steps i've took when i opened mine

1. try to keep every seal in place on the rotor when you get it out of the engine

2. identify the rotor face you've got, the one with the tooths is the outer face

3.clean the rotors face and take a notebook and draw the rotor and every signs you can find on it. you do this to know exactly where your apex seals are from, so if you have to rebuilt the engine with the old seal you can do it (its not recomended to mix up the apex seals, dont ask me why) if ur gonna use new seals you can skip this step

4. identify your rotors corner on your notebook and get the apex seals/sping/corner seals out of the rotor one at a time, and make sure u mark them to know where they exactly go on each rotor. if ur gonna use new seals you can skip this step too

5. do the same with your side seals/spings

6. this step is more important though, the side oil seals gotta be marked too, wich goes inside, wich goes outside the rotor, you can fuck the rotor up if u mix em up. you dont wanna buy the 973.61$ seal kit from mazdatrix, its not cheap.

6. once the rotor is seal-less, go buy 4L of carb cleaner (i paid 65$ for that), and leave ur rotors in the stuff (i did it one at the time, i leaved the 2nd rotor in motor oil so it dont rust) for a week or two, clean it with rags and a little brush, use compressed air to clean the seals grooves, a toothpick can be usefull too.

after this step, look for scratches or grooves.
clean the rotorhousings and the irons too, it can gives you a good idea on what heated and what blew inside the engine