Duffy's 1/71 Series 1 240z build

[duffymahoney]

I actually live in Sandpoint.  I love it here.  I don't see a lot of z's in my area.

 

Got the front mostly installed.  Some of the zinc chromate seems to rub off with lots of handling.  I will need to contact the platers.  Googling it seems to say the same thing, can be rubbed off and gets harder with time.  It was plated 2 days ago. Hopefully it changes.  Or maybe they did something wrong? Zinc is the part that is electroplated.  The chromate (yellow) is just a coating.  

 

Sure looks pretty  

[grannyknot]

Looks great, some where in your box of treasure there should be 4 washers that look like these pics, they go on the far inside and outside of the T/C rods, not sure where those large thin flat washers that you have on there go.

[duffymahoney]

4 hours ago, grannyknot said:

Looks great, some where in your box of treasure there should be 4 washers that look like these pics, they go on the far inside and outside of the T/C rods, not sure where those large thin flat washers that you have on there go.

I only have two of those that are good.  Two are ruined.  I am going poly and I think i will get rubber for the backside of the tension rod like people have said.  

[rturbo 930]

I've heard something about people snapping the TC rod when using poly bushings there. Might want to look into that and maybe reconsider.

[Patcon]

You should try to locate 2 more good ones. They are stronger than flat washers

[Captain Obvious]

Go to rockauto and buy two boxes of AC Delco part number 45G25036.

The picture on rockauto is wrong. The picture shows just the bushings, but in fact, each box has one complete T/C rod worth of parts! All the washers, bushings, sleeve and nut for one side. Buy two kits and put the bushings in a box for the future and just use the rest of the kit.

Best eighteen bucks you'll spend on suspension parts!

10 hours ago, duffymahoney said:

 I am going poly and I think i will get rubber for the backside of the tension rod like people have said.  

On edit... You're going poly and are going to be needing two rubber bushings anyway!! With two kits, you'll have four. Just put two in a box for future use and use the other two on the back side now!

Edited September 25, 2017 by Captain Obvious
I just felt like it.

[duffymahoney]

Are they yellow zinc?

[Captain Obvious]

Yes, they are yellow zinc. At least when I bought them a couple years ago. This is what they look like:

And just in case there is any question about the orientation of everything, here's how it should go together. Small washers on the ends. Concave side of the large washers toward the bushings. Poly in front, rubber in back:

 

And here's how it should look when installed:

[duffymahoney]

That's the plan, poly in the front and ruber in the back.  I had two good washers.  So I only need one kit.  

[duffymahoney]

All of this is going off to paint and powder tomorrow.  So much to tape off. I might give up on all the u joint areas and just paint them, that way I can just use a wire wheel to clean the paint off.  Hard decisions.

[duffymahoney]

I Have been working on this for a while.  Trying to get it one uniform finish.  Which seems to be impossible.  I have been building a vapor blasting setup and might try it on this and see how it turns out.  It's come a long way from tar, grease and paint covered. 

Edited September 27, 2017 by duffymahoney

[duffymahoney]

I spent around 2 hours cleaning the seat sliders, then re greasing them.  Wow they were filthy.  I also had some surface rust on the seat bottoms so they got a powder coating.  I saw a sneak peak of my seats at the upholstery shop.  They look amazing, all new foam and padding.