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Posted by: MadScientistMatt

I'd picked up a bad work habbit while the Dart was in my carport (or rather, next to my carport!). I'd just throw all the tools and stuff on the floor of the car since that was about the only (relatively) weatherproof place to leave them instead of bringing them indoors.

Last week I finally cleaned out the interior, putting away tools, organizing fasteners into boxes, and throwing out trash. I want to be sure that doesn't happen again. Any of you have good systems for organizing the garage?

Posted by: The OLE MAN

YEP, I use a TOOL BOX

The OLE MAN

Posted by: John

Damn, the Ole Man beat me to it!

I spent too much time rambling on about Jaguars.

On a more serious note, toolboxes work great for stuff I don't have to drag out every often. I have large drawers for holding the air tools and such and I keep large tray drawers for holding the specialty tools like snap-ring pliers, tin snips and other stuff I don't need often. I also keep extra sets of wrenchs in the drawers. Most of the sockets stay in the drawers too. All the ratchets have a drawer all to thier own so they don't get all screwed up.

The tools I use regularly and large tools like the 4 foot breaker bar, large axle sockets, hammers and such go on a peg board on the wall. I have a set of sockets on a socket bar. Actually, two. One is all SAE from about 1/4" to 15/16" in size and I have another one that is all metric from about 6mm to 22mm. All other sockets and duplicate sizes are in the drawers. I have sets of wrenches from about 7/16" to 1 1/2 inch hanging on the pegboards too. I also have metric sizes from 6mm to 22mm on the pegboard. The rest are stored in the drawers. No particular order, I should probably get trays for the wrenches so they aren't all over the place. I could use some socket organizers too.

Anyhow, The other thing I did was for the little tool cart we have, I took industrial zip-ties and zip-tied a sheet of pegboard to the side of the cart. It's not real tall but it lets me hang wrenches and stuff on the board so they don't get buried in the mess of empty spray cans, dirty tools and broken parts the end up in the cart.

Oh, one thing we do use that actually saves us money is starting fluid or ether. Instead of using spray parts cleaner or the highly caustic brake cleaner, we use ether. It's cheap and it cuts just about anything. Brake cleaner should only be used for brakes brake parts, the same goes with carb cleaner. The ether won't damage anything except the softest rubber seals and it works pretty well. That and it doesn't leave much of a residue so the parts aren't greasy and slimy. Sure, it's bad for the environment I suppose but so are the other cleaners.

Posted by: bigjsgirl

I put stuff in those rubbermade storage containers.They work the best.Besides, they come in different sizes.And that helps too.So, store away!

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