TXblue240Z

good deal, that's what i was wondering! thanks

So a couple of months ago while changing my thermostat, I noticed that both the upper and lower portions of the housing had damage to them that made them unusable ( always like it when a new gasket and scraping all that old crud from a seal reveals a leak and thus a bigger job) but I digress. In removing the water temperature sending unit ( the only thing wired into my thermostat since the PO removed the other units which connect to the EGR System? anyway, the only thing I have is the one which gives me the temp at my dash. The 30+ year old wire, being old and brittle breaks off at the sensor, I patched in a new piece of wire, soldered it etc, after a couple of months, it keeps coming loose so I bought a new one from MSA. My question is, it has that little nub sticking out to wire it, but does anyone know what size/type connector I need to attach the wire to the sensor? also where I could get one would be helpful too! Thanks!

shirt with car, definietly, yellow lettering looks good, but maybe tweak the shade of yellow to be a tad (not much) softer? more like "yellow" instead of "YELLOW"

yeah, i think the first incident caused the fan to get all messed up, i'm just gonna go a head and replace the fan blades too, thanks for the help.

i should clarify one thing: they aren't conatcting the core as before, they are contacting the upper lip that extends out past the core on my radiator. this lip is sometimes catching a corner and causing the fan to bend underneath it which would eventually cause it to bend enough to seize the whole fan and might rip a new whole in the core at the uppermost part

there is plently of distance normally... but when it is running, esp at high rpms, it oscillates front to back slightly and sometimes this causes contact, when the engine is hot, the fan blades get very pliable and when this contact occurs, they bend, and then that blade is more likely to contact b.c it is bent funny...at least that's my theory...it obviously had some front end problem at some time...which was sorta repaired and i didn't really notice until i had the radiator out...the radiator mounts in the car, where the holes for the bolts are are bend on one side, but there is still what looks like very ample clearance when the engine is off.... from what i can tell...i am getting very frustrated with this radiator/fan trouble since this car is my daily driver, therefore i am not driving... should i return this fan clutch and get a new one as defective or what? i guess i need to replace the warped blades, maybe the slight warps in them is causing the oscillation..i don't know.

So i got my radiator fixed from last fan incident...turned out my motor mounts were fine, just an unbalanced fan. I replaced the fan clutch and the water pump and the fan is still unbalanced! I noticed that some of my fan blades have taken a new shape almost (one was warped) when i had taken the fan out for the replacement of all of these, i tried to bend it back, it's still off balance...my only thought is that i need to replace the plastic fan part... right? i mean a new clutch/water pump probably wouldn't be the problem would they? The damned thing is touching my radiator from time to time so i don't run it anymore because i don't want another radiator hole... If i do need to replace the fan part, what is a good a source, and what years/models are interchangable for this part?

Got the radiator repaired, found a good radiator shop... replaced the water pump, fan clutch and made sure that everything was good and tight...problem solved!

thanks for all of the help..Still trying to track down a good radiator shop in the waco area. I went and looked over the damage again today and I noticed something strange...the fan blades are all fine, except for 2 of them which have notched up corners from rubbing on the radiator...these two are 180 degrees from each other... The radiator is mounted securely, and since none of the hoses, lines etc seem out of place, I am starting to doubt my lurching engine theory because, if the whole engine moved forward, then all of the fan blades would show signs of contact with the radiator... therefore, would a fan clutch going out cause the fan to rotate out of balance? And since I heard the contact the radiator when I was slowing down, but when idling it was fine, driving it's fine, but only when I decellerating quickly did it make contact, would this still be a problem that is consistant with a bad fan clutch? would a bad water pump also cause the fan to be unbalanced so that two blades only would touch the radiator? thoughts? thanks

the raditaor happened aside from the bumpy road. IT happened when i was braking pulling into the driveway. so I'm sure it's the motor mount allowing the engine to slide forward.

ok, the one i have in there now is a three core. The rupture looks as if it was caused by the fan actually coming in contact with it, which i guess means that my engine isn't mounted securely....bad news i guess...thanks for the help. I guess I'll try to track down a good radiator shop... anyway ideas on why my engine would slide forward enough for the fan to contact the radiator other than a broken mount, and where would I start to track this issue down.... thanks a again for the help.

Well, I got my Z fixed yesterday, the electrical problem. Today, I was pulling into my girlfriend's driveway, when I stopped, the car made a strange noise, like th ebrakes lockingup, which kinda makes sense b/c I kinda stopped quicker than usual...except it wasn't my brakes. When I shut the car off and got out...my Radiator is leaking coolant, at an alarming rate...infact the whole thing drained faster than if I would I have removed the plug....so I put a hose in it, turned it on to see if maybe the plug had come loose or if i could determine the source of the leak...from best that I can tell, the damned thing separated at the bottom, or in some other way ripped open near the bottom... I couldn't see well because like all major car problems, this one happened after dark.... I'll investigate tomorrow...assuming it wasn't my lower radiator hose bursting or something easily replacable...where is the best place to get a new radiator for a decent price? THanks!

Thanks, I checked all of those out. They were all fine. It was the voltage regulator.

so i tried jumping it, it started fine, took the cables off and it died. so alternator or battery?

I was driving home a few minutes ago and i was ona pretty cruddy road (bumpy, potholes) nothing too serious...when I hit a bump and lost all my electrical power... lights, engine, everything dead. All my fuses appear to be ok (although I only had my cell phone as a light) fortunately I was able to pullinto an AC Delco parts shop/repair shop... I need to knwo what possibly caused this so I can salvage my car ASAP...the only reason this is urgent is this happened in a pretty sketchy part of Waco, TX and I fear for my cars safety...as when I was leaving a small crowd was watching me from in front a seedy hourly rate motel... anyway, any pointers on the little info I have is very useful, also if any one here lives in waco, and can possibly help, PM me. Thanks.