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Re: James 85 300zx, JT vs the collapsed rear wheel bearing
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 2:00 pm
by 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.
Re: James 85 300zx, JT vs the collapsed rear wheel bearing
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 5:13 pm
by brocky41
Might just have to go aus spec and put a solid rear in james lol
Re: James 85 300zx, JT vs the collapsed rear wheel bearing
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 5:33 pm
by 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.
Re: James 85 300zx, JT vs the collapsed rear wheel bearing
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 9:04 pm
by DJZ
So you were missing the tapered spacers in between the bearings?
Re: James 85 300zx, JT vs the collapsed rear wheel bearing
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 9:18 pm
by 85_Z31
DJZ wrote: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.
Re: James 85 300zx, JT vs the collapsed rear wheel bearing
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 9:23 pm
by 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.
Re: James 85 300zx, JT vs the collapsed rear wheel bearing
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 10:11 pm
by broke
YOLO!
Re: James 85 300zx, JT vs the collapsed rear wheel bearing
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 7:15 pm
by 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
Re: James 85 300zx, JT vs the collapsed rear wheel bearing
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 10:41 am
by gingofthesouth
Whew, I bet the feeling of "Idiot" has been replaced with "Ohh fuck yeah" now you are driving it again!
Re: James 85 300zx, JT vs the collapsed rear wheel bearing
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 12:39 pm
by brocky41
85_Z31 wrote: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