What did you do to your Z this week?

AliK

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A great idea right there!

I don't have a huge lot of headroom in my garage, so thinking of how to keep the car as low as possible during removal and install.
 

jonbills

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I got the Quaife in the diff carrier
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and the diff carrier in the car.
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I've got to put the driveshafts, ARB and exhaust back on tomorrow, then a test drive.
I've also reverted to the original 3.7 final drive which I've not experienced with this engine as it is now should be fun
 

toopy

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Ive had a small coolant weep from the right angled metal stub to the rear of the block, and its been dripping on the starter motor.

Tightening the hose clamp only made it worse, so of it came, as i bought a replacement stub and some 45 degree hose months ago.

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The culprit revealed!

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Shiny new one

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Hose with 45 degree bend, cut to size

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In situ, I used some plumbing tape on the stub threads, as without, it was tight in the block but the stub was facing down!

I changed the coolant and flushed it through a couple of years ago, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the coolant that came out this time was perfectly clean with no hint of dirt/sediment or rust :)
 

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richiep

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Spent the morning following on from last week's engine removal. Wasn't as productive as hoped but that was partly a consequence of not having considered how challenging removing the diff would be when the halfshafts are disconnected from the hubs but not the diff! The diff will now be waiting until I remove the rest of the rear suspension. Instead I worked on the column, dash, air con removal, etc. Got some stuff out (brute force worked for the air con unit!) but didn't get as far as dash removal. Various screws not wanting to come on done tried my patience. Did find lots more rodent ***** though!
 

jonbills

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Finished putting the car back together with the new diff. Seems to work ok.
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Annoyingly the marbles-in-can effect is back :smash:
 
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toopy

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After yesterdays coolant repair I took a run down the M20 to Headcorn Aerodrome with my local classic car group

No weeps and returned with a full complement of cooling fluid :D

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candy red

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Started the 280zx up after a year :eek::( started straight away no problems :) then filled her up with fuel, came out of petrol station to find 4 people looking around the car so ended up chatting to them and showing them all round the car 1hour later i was back on the road and thats where i stayed for 3hrs 150miles later i went home .Stopped at local shop for beers ,when i came out :eek: more people around the car :( had a chat show them round the car another 1/2 hour gone just wanted to get home now and have a beer as i had been out about 5hrs :D only went to pick it up for mot tomorrow still had a great unplanned afternoon me and the car :driving::) to be honest could have done another couple of hours pure satisfaction. :D
 

jonbills

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Slacker Derrick, you should have been home working on the 260.
 
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