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85_Z31 wrote:if you need to I can print you out an A1 exploded view

[luke mode] and show me how to pull it apart and put it back together again? [/luke mode]

Righto, I bit the bullet and removed the gearbox with Brock's help the other day. Right now it's with this guy I know who does a bit of a sideline rebuilding gearboxes, usually off the back of RB20DET's. He says most of the time it's the layshaft bearing inside the sandwich plate that goes. Before I gave him the box I had a peek behind the front plate inside the bellhousing and it wasn't either of those two that were gone.

HopefullyI can get it back by the weekend to reinstall.

I've seen at least 3 C32's driving around lately. Get yours on the road so you can join them!!

broke wrote:

85_Z31 wrote:if you need to I can print you out an A1 exploded view

[luke mode] and show me how to pull it apart and put it back together again? [/luke mode]

Judge away.... but now I can happily rip apart most of my car and pour it together again! The only help needed is alcohol

luke wrote:

broke wrote:

85_Z31 wrote:if you need to I can print you out an A1 exploded view

[luke mode] and show me how to pull it apart and put it back together again? [/luke mode]

Judge away.... but now I can happily rip apart most of my car and pour it together again! The only help needed is alcohol

Not judging at all kind sir, merely hoping to replicate the success that you've had in throwing yourself at the mercy of the greater Datsun community in the hope that someone would come to my rescue and do the whole rebuild from start to finish for nothing

Datto_610 wrote:I've seen at least 3 C32's driving around lately. Get yours on the road so you can join them!!

Yes, but how many were hardtops? Seriously though, I am dying inside not being able to drive it around. I will be pestering Leo every day to see if my gearbox is ready!

broke wrote:

Datto_610 wrote:I've seen at least 3 C32's driving around lately. Get yours on the road so you can join them!!

Yes, but how many were hardtops? Seriously though, I am dying inside not being able to drive it around. I will be pestering Leo every day to see if my gearbox is ready!

Yea he hates being show ferred around in an r30 willy nilly lol

Righto, bit of an update. Got my gearbox back, it had mint synchros which was good. The layshaft bearing in the sandwich plate was totally destroyed, no photos but I do have it and it ain't pretty. It's in the car now and filled with semi synthetic oil.

Hooked up pretty much all of the little bits and pieces in the engine bay, installed about a million blanking plugs off vacuum points from things I've removed. I have a couple of extra plugs (1x 4pin 1x 8pin) by my battery tray that I just can't remember if they ever had anything attached to them or not. Hopefully not.

What else... installed the throttle body off the other car to my manifold, it has the extra attachment for the cruise control cable so that I can fit that some time. The coolant fittings on it were rusted beyond saving so I had to bypass those.

All this stuff is taking me ages since it's been months since I took everything apart and we've also moved so much stuff around the shed that it's really hard to find all the bits, but I'm pretty determined to drive this thing.

Still to do:

-Refit radiator, bleed coolant etc
-Bleed clutch
-Refit seat and interior stuff
-Check and adjust timing belt tension
-Refit upper timing cover and AC compressor belt
-Refit fan and fan shroud
-Check for whatever stupid thing I forgot to do up
-Align bonnet
-Hope like crazy that I got the timing marks all correct when doing the belt
-Test drive
-Hope nothing else blows up

Tried firing the old girl up last night, no joy. I was pretty sure this was an inhibitor switch issue, so I tried swapping the automatic Z31 Fairlady ECU the car had when I got it (true story!) for the C32 manual ECU. Still no go, but the kick panel covering the ECU now fits properly for the first time ever.

As I suspected, that 8 pin plug was for the inhibitor switch, which I scrapped with the auto trans. Fortunately I have a Nissan Service Manual for the C32 series with some lovely wiring diagrams. Although it doesn't cover V-Turbo models the inhibitor switches are all the same. Made a trip to Jaycar this afternoon and got some bits, bridged the inhibitor switch wiring into "neutral" and it started up fine!

Idle is very high (1200-1500rpm) and there is a lot of gearbox noise inside the car (haven't refitted the centre console yet). Bled the coolant system, and when Brocky came home he gave me a hand (actually he did most of the work lying under the car while I just pushed the pedal and added fluid) to bleed the clutch up. It all looked promising, there were no silly leaks so took it for a drive after about 3 months off the road! First drive was to the Shell station with Brocky following in case I ran out of gas (haha).

First impressions: Feels like it has about a third more power than before. The improvement in throttle response is amazing, it's a totally different car to drive. The shifter bushings are totally rooted though, so it's pretty agricultural feeling to shift gears. The annoying turbo whine is gone, now it's just the regular old school Nissan turbo spool noise. The 3000rpm stumble isn't there any more, but there is a bit of a miss in the upper rev range (4500rpm +) so I must have somehow managed to move it up the rev range.

Bit more fine tuning and assembly and I'll be all set for the southern cruise!

Sweet Bro, great effort Broke