How to keep yourself busy for a while ;C)

Tk · Post by Tk » Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:23 pm

Nothing like a project to keep you busy
Looks good so far, look forward to the updates

russ979 · Post by **russ979** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:52 pm

Super project Mark!:thumbs:
I look forward to the updates.

slaphead · Post by **slaphead** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 8:10 pm

russ979 wrote:Super project Mark!:thumbs:
I look forward to the updates.

Your wish etc etc....

Once the stripping was done with it was time to re-seal the original bodywork and factory primer with metal
paint,a first coat of stone chip followed by seam sealer and another coat of stone chip to provide a level
of protection sadly never applied to original Z's.

Post by **Stuart** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 8:23 pm

Looking good so far Mark. That will weigh about three tonnes when you've finished

russ979 · Post by **russ979** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 9:32 pm

Nice work!
There must be something in the air round these parts mate!
I think its funny that youv`e spent your christmas break working under a car too.

Good luck.

slaphead · Post by **slaphead** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:20 pm

Stuart wrote:Looking good so far Mark. That will weigh about three tonnes when you've finished

ONLY when I'm in it lol

russ979 wrote:Nice work!
There must be something in the air round these parts mate!
I think its funny that youv`e spent your christmas break working under a car too.
Good luck.

Sadly it wasn't under the Zed - a transit beckoned and I couldn't resist the call of the dark side!

slaphead · Post by **slaphead** » Sun Apr 07, 2013 10:25 pm

Well after her winter lay up and a lot more fiddling about the old girl is now running on all 6 cylinders again (not just 3 - turns out the rear inch and three quarter SU HS6 was gummed up with emulsified fuel

) - plus what I had feared was a failed clutch actuator lever turned out to be be a missing peddle linkage pin - so no engine out (yet again!), and all associated hassle was not necessary, a bang on result!!

But having unblocked everything she is now running pretty well (a bit of distributor fettling aside) and sounding absolutely awesome.

Sometime think this car is a case of two steps forward and one step back, I seem end up re-doing stuff that has deteriorated since it was done lol

Some more pics shortly gents ;C)

Mark

Post by **Stuart** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:19 am

Forgot all about this Mark........need pics matey

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 12:41 pm

Yeah deffo pics !!!

slaphead · Post by **slaphead** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:37 am

RX7 wrote:Yeah deffo pics !!!

Pictures will follow honest!

Still in the 2 steps forward 4 steps back club sadly

To bring the story up to date :-

Having replaced the leaky core plug (one of those sneaky ones that hides under the exhaust manifold) I rather foolishly/naively refilled the rad with water thinking job was a goodun and promptly got wet feet for my sins - another bloody core plug had gone!

When I checked the other core plugs they looked decidedly ropey so I bought a job lot and replaced all seven of them and refilled the cooling system yet again, hey presto no damn leaks finally!

I now thought it a good opportunity to run the wagon up temperature and see how she went [This is Mark speak for "I just wanted to hoon the damn thing around the garden sideways for a laugh"], anyway after carefully warming the beastie up, I started to stick my foot down and remember thinking that "blimey it seems to be wheel spinning easily today"

WRONG!

Forking clutch was sh*gged again and she was just spinning up at the flywheel! :beatdeadhorse5:

So I rather philosophically pointed it back at the garage and gave it enough rpm to get it there - as I arrived back at the garage the gods of "so you think your having a bad day (so far)" intervened yet again and as I got rather hot feet their cunning plan for me became clear, the heater matrix had just blown big style doh!

The engine will be coming out again soon to do the clutch (it will give me a chance to clean the engine bay out properly after all) - I do have a heater matrix tucked away somewhere, so it may not be a big issue just an inconvenience.

Mark