1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

... I pulled my rear diff myself.. just loosened it and pulled it up and out

Oh guess it helps to say I had no engine in

 

But i can drop that in from the top

 

Wait? Why does it matter if the engines were in if youre working with the rear diff haha

 

Damn phone. Front diff. My bad

 

Was about to say lol. But we are Hoosier genetically stronger by default lol

 

I’m better than all y’all. I got 3 elocker pigs and 3 front diffs with 4.10 gears

 

Wanna make that 4?

 

Oh god... (I would love a rust free diff though)

 

Speaking of diffs. You Know how to do the regearing? As in bolt the gears in yourself.

 

Ill even have it sand blasted by tyler

 

That’s suppose to be easy. Setting the back lash is the hard part

 

I was just being annoying haha

 

Come over and play I could really use a second hand. Doing a whole car alone is a blessing and a curse.

So in a stroke of pure blind stupidity I assumed the clunk I was hearing was an inner tie rod end. Well the symptoms matched exactly. But it wasn't, I made it clunk without rod ends of any sort, fuck that means rack. Well look at how a 300zx rack sits and tell me how you think you remove it...



But I had one more thought before I resorted to lighting the thing on fire. What if that big nut and jam ring are the adjuster for a rack guide, I have vertical play and clicking so it makes sense. So I set about for something to turn this weird nut...



Well that is some sort of 13mm torx or something odd like that. But it just so happens I have 13mm bolt head and some nuts that fit it to make an adjusting tool.



Gave the jam ring a loosen, tightened the nut and voila. Noise and play we're gone and the steering was tighter. That saved me $300 and a lot of time. The rack is otherwise okay and I'm replacing all the other rack stuff now anyway.

Also bonus garage action, look at these tension rod bushings compared to the new poly ones, yuck!

 

Swear I'm learning more about your Z then your truck lol

 

It's more interesting anyway, the truck is old news and everyone on here has one haha. The Z31 forums are long dead and don't have much useful info anyway so I feel like j have to blaze a trail.

 

True

 

420 blaze it 69

 

Happy Monday cork soakers

 

I take it you drinking wine tonight