awenglund

I haven't bled it recently. I did it about a year ago but the reservoir is still full so I didn't figure there would be any air in it. But I might as well do it again since it's not that difficult.

Hey I'm trying adjust the clutch on my 71 240 and was wondering what exactly does free play mean. Is it the distance the pedal will travel before it contacts the clutch cylinder rod or is it the distance it travels before the resistance significantly increases? I'm leaning toward the latter based on the 10-15 mm spec but i thought i see what you guys thought. i was going to adjust it because it got hard to get in gear. It never seemed to love going in reverse but the last time i got the car out it resisted going into first. I figured the adjustment on the pedal probably got loose so that it wasn't disengaging fully when depressing the pedal.

has anybody tried to replace the gauge with an aftermarket unit but switch out the faces. probably wouldn't be that straight forward but i figure somebody has tried it.

well i went back today and snagged one from a 92 Civic. I checked every 88-91 they had and they were all the same spider leg motors. On the 92, the motor was on the opposite side of the car and mounts like the one in the instructions - 3 bolts that thread into the motor and the shaft is threaded but flat on two sides. But from 91 to 92, the body style of the car changed completely, so hopefully this one will still work. It looks like it will mount the same, I'll just have to see if the wiring works out. Thanks for the encouragement guys.

never mind, i'm an idiot. i found the discussion about this issue in the original post about the swap. apparently the 91 civics have more than one kind of wiper motor. i got the wrong one. oh well at least they were cheap.

Hey guys. I was planning to put a 91 civic wiper motor into my 71 240Z by following the directions that I saw on this forum. So I went to the pull-a-part and grabbed two wiper motors from 91 civics (i figured i should get two since they were cheap and still 17 years old). The problem is now that I'm looking at the pictures from the swap instructions the motor doesn't look the same. The one in the directions looks like it has 3 threaded holes that are used to mount it to the mounting plate. The ones that I ended up with have four non-threaded feet and one of them is longer and angled so it wouldn't be able to sit flat on the mounting plate (see attached picture). So i'm wondering how I screwed up getting the right motor. I re-read the original post and 91 civic was the thing to get. Any help would be appreciated.

Here is one near Atlanta that probably does head work: E Radatz Motorsports Address: 961 Shallowford Rd NE, Kennesaw, GA 30144 Phone: (770) 926-6609 And if they don't, I'll bet they'll know where to go.