Duffy's 1/71 Series 1 240z build

[Zed Head]

Be careful.  I see a socket lurking...

[duffymahoney]

it's probably a 10mm:)

[duffymahoney]

Nos 240z starter solenoid score. eBay 9$ shipped! Time to rebuild the starter.  

[Mike]

On 4/29/2019 at 5:55 PM, duffymahoney said:

More stuff back from zinc. Time to install some stuff. 

Man, that zinc plating looks great!!

[duffymahoney]

I wanted to send it back, since it was so blue/ purple, I decided to just live with it.  

[Patcon]

16 hours ago, duffymahoney said:

I wanted to send it back, since it was so blue/ purple, I decided to just live with it.  

Did you contact them at all?

[duffymahoney]

Well shimming the r-180, backlash, pre load and wipe pattern took most of a couple days after work and most of a Saturday morning. I think I took it apart 20+ times. Finally happy with the wipe pattern. Luckily I didn’t have to change the pinion shim.  Edit: I think in a perfect world I would have had a special tool to set the pinion nut at the factory 125-150ftlb. Then used different shims to get the bearing pre load perfect.  But I had no way, so a couple of hits with the impact is what I used to set pre load, I found that info on here and a few youtube videos.  It's not precise at all, just hopeful the factory had it correct enough.  A bunch of site posts and a few guru told me to just reuse the pinion shim and move on.  Everyone basically told me backlash is the most important.  

Ended up with 5 thousandths for backlash give or take and then ring side backlash shim if .05 and other side of .07.  Total inch pounds is around 8-10 on the pinion. No carrier I had around 3 inch pounds for the pinion. 

This is worth paying someone to do. Just FYI. I had fun. But super frustrating.

Edited May 5, 2019 by duffymahoney

[duffymahoney]

She is in. Gosh I hope it works nicely and I didn’t screw up! 

 

I really like how the half shafts hades turned out. 

[duffymahoney]

Osgiken clutch is in. Big thanks to Zgarage for the kit. Install was a breeze. 

[duffymahoney]

I got the starter put back together. Hopefully it works! Sure looks nicer. 

[duffymahoney]

Finally got the ka trans. This is a low mileage (500) miles trans. Been sitting on the shelf since 1989.  I found it on some parts website. Vapor and some zinc and it’s looking amazing. 

 

Bell housing mods are being done Emerish racing. 

[Patcon]

The bracing flanges on that case look amazing!