Zedyone_kenobi

UPDATE.. I have begun round II on this. Yesterday, I jacked up the back of the car and replaced the inner rear control arm bushings (about 2 hours once the car was on jack stands, I work slowly, and carefully). That is a really smooth job once I got the exhaust out of the way. Currently, I have all 4 new bushings in and the for large end cap bolts are hand tight, and the small brackets in the rear are snugged down but not tight, and the diff mount is snugged down but not tight. I am going to fire up the FSM and see if I can find the right order to torque these bolts. From what I have read, it would seem I need to tighten all 8 of the mount bolts first, then lower the car, and tighten the 23mm bolts. I will do a search here and then fire up the FSM. IF this sequence is right, all I need is torques.

update. I just talked with RON at Zclocks and he has agreed to rebuild my factory clock to quartz specs. This I think will be the beginning of a short down time for my car. I am going to put her back on stands and switch out some bushings and mounts, as well as get my carbs redone at Ztherapy.

THanks! I may have to go that route!

Did you get those from Autotrend.com as they have all those there, and I tried to order form them last week, but cannot get a hold of them.

ooops, should have proof read, fair enough

Well I started my guage swapout. I had an extra amp/fuel, and an extra clock, so I decided to get those ready and would swap them out when time permitted. Well inbetween naps of my 1 year old I found some time to get the glove box out and remove my factory clock. It was quite easy with the glove box out of the way. Well the first thing I noticed was the font on the replacement clock was different. This worried me. To make sure I was not wasting time on the clock, I removed the voltmeter from its holster (what, you don’t have a fluke voltmeter as a sidearm) and testing the blue wire which according to the wiring diagram should be a 12v source. Wait, let me back up. There are three things that go into the back of a 1971 clock housing. The light bulb, WHICH JUST PULLS OUT. I must have rotated it about a skillion times before I realized it just pulls out! So don’t cut those nice OEM wires in your dash people, just gently pull out the factory bulb. But I digress. So you have the bulb going into the back of the guage, and you have a small rubber grommet with a black and a blue wire coming out of it. The blue should have 12 volts constantly even with the key out of the car. Which makes sense as the clock would only work when the car is running, which is great if you have an outboard engine in your car and you need to know the hours on it, but otherwise, you want 12v constant. The black is of course a ground. So when I tested my blue wire, it did in fact have 12.6 volts. Yeah. Next step was to make some jumpers to hook up my battery straight to the clock. NO dice, my clock was non functional. I suspect it’s a rather simple fix though. AS all my gears turned smoothly and nothing looked out of place. I may try to replace the lone resistor soldered to the wires to see if that helps, but that’s another day. Next step was to hook up my spare clock, with the slightly different face plate. And curiously, my spare clock had the word “QUARTZ” on the bottom. Remembering that there was a website called www.zclocks.com I looked at that and sure enough, it appears to be one of his. The face plate, and rear case were identical to the ones pictured on the website. When I took it apart, it had a very modern looking plastic case that was white but tranasparent where you could see the clock mechanism. When I hardwared it to the battery, it immediately began to tick. YEAH. Only problem is the backing of the guage has no place to mount it to the chassis like my stock guage. Unless I fabricate an L-bracket and epoxy it to the back, I am not sure what to do. Picture three below shows the lack of any mounting hardware, so any ideas? http://www.zclocks.com/images/portfolio/clock-1.jpg http://www.zclocks.com/images/portfolio/clock-2.jpg http://www.zclocks.com/images/portfolio/clock-3.jpg

Well look into the Konig Rewinds, panasports, or Rota RBR's. I think all of them would compliment your car well.

Fantasy: I will work on my Z one day every week Reality: I will stain the back patio, build cabinets, wash dishes, change diapers, every day of every week. OH yeah, I may get to change the oil every now and then.. haha

Oh come on Kirk, you know you love those wheels, I am willing to bet you could sell them. they are not bad looking, and are practically new.

oooo that short nose is Niiiiiiiiice

Hey Arne, I have a 7/71, I can go check mine, here you go.

could not agree more... time on the road is what you need! Let that straight six sing!

I confirmed today, I have that brace!!! whoo hoo!

I will check my car to see if I have that tonight, if not, I will need to procure a donor. And it will make me wonder why I do not have that, if it was welded, I need to see if it was removed and how. Should be some fun detective work!!!

Well dont worry about offending me on getting the same exhaust... they sound amazing, and I love hearing my zed go up through the rpm band, and it decelerates awesome as well with a nice blurble...Sounds like a vintage 70's race car. I am running a resonator as well... so without it, I cannot imagine how loud it would be. But for now, its comfortable and I can have a conversation while driving, which is good enough!

Well that center support may be there, I have never seen a picture of it. Do you have a pic of it so I can go look. Honestly, I have not looked at much in front of the radiator support..Most of my work has been behind that...So it may be there or not, I would need to go see if I knew what to look for.

Yeah, I bruise easily..hee hee

Get a hold of your guy Wing!!! I am on the hunt for perfect condition front pieces!!!

Yup Arne, behind my front air dam, its open as the sky.. (i.e. no sheet metal at all back there...) Well at least not valance panels, have sheet metal where it is suppose to be..

Looks absolutely beautiful!!! Love that car!

correct, the other 7 were for my days playing with Camaros and trans ams. I will do the compression check sometime soon. TR260Z, we could have a compression check day.. PM me and we can make plans!

Got it so I would need that as well... this is looking more like a junk yard salvage job now.

Yeah, MSA is asking 138 per side and 171 for the center. I would actually pay that for perfect unmolested body panels. Question though. I can see how the sides would attach, and I can guess that the center just attaches between the two, but does it attach anywhere else. How can it be strong enough to hold on a 'spook' type air dam if its just attached to the sides!!!

THanks Arne! I was configuring a way to hold those things open, but it looks like just pulling bowls would be easier. As usual...great advice.

Hello all! I rarely post in the body work section as so far I have not had anything more serious than a dab of underbody rust that POR-15 took care of. So I have been thinking of removing my front air dam and going back to the stock front end with a Spook air dam (BRE style). I know there are many places to get one of these, but what I do not have is all the body work underneath my bumper like the side pieces and front center valence connecting them. They are just not there, as my air dam was installed when purchased new according to the paperwork and bill of sale. Here is my current config. Where can I find those front three pieces of bodywork if I decide to go this route? As MSA and Black Dragon do not sell them. Any bites? Junk yard maybe?