James Z31 Engine Blueprinting

[classicdat]

yuck, jt vs seems to be right, hope you are right about the third one or we might start calling this car Christine. As someone who tends to neglect his Datsuns, may I suggest you have made your car soft, particularly in the IRS with all the attention you lavish on it.
Just yesterday my daughter commented, "all these cars and which ones never let us down", as we head out in the 1200 and Jill drives the Zed, with the Holden sitting with a blown trans and the Honda is unavailable.

[brocky41]

Might just have to go aus spec and put a solid rear in james lol

[85_Z31]

Oh well, found a complete set of mint feeling bearings at the old mans place.

After looking at the arms from my parts car it would seem that i never swapped over the spacer tubes probably because i was excited about cert and it never occurred to me that they were missing. So all the diff swapping appears to been 100% pointless because it was another problem entirely.

Feel like such a nob as all this wasted time and missed cruises has been my own doing.

Huge Credit to Brock who got me thinking about all of this and prompted me to investigate further.

One of these days im going to take up stamp collecting and not think about Datsuns ever again.

[DJZ]

So you were missing the tapered spacers in between the bearings?

[85_Z31]

So you were missing the tapered spacers in between the bearings?

yep ,they never came with the controls arms i purchased to cut up, but i found replacements from another set of arms.

[DJZ]

Bummer, those bearings would have been all over the place. The spacers come in a couple of different lengths, if the Z31s are the same as the S130s there should be a letter stamped on the control arm which tells you which spacer to fit.

[broke]

YOLO!

[85_Z31]

ALl fixed up mint now, all bad sounds are totally gone and the new Bov works great and I'm inaly ready for cruises agan

[gingofthesouth]

Whew, I bet the feeling of "Idiot" has been replaced with "Ohh fuck yeah" now you are driving it again!

[brocky41]

Huge Credit to Brock who got me thinking about all of this and prompted me to investigate further.

Credit taken - lol

Awesome you got it all fixed in one go though - great when that happens