Hello everyone...'71 240Z in Christchurch

toycollector10 · Post by **toycollector10** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:13 pm

Update...1st of December 2011

toycollector10 · Post by **toycollector10** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:54 pm

When I took the brake drums and wheel cylinders down to Safe 'R Brakes to be restored I was wearing a pair of latex gloves to keep the grease off my hands. The two guys behind the counter sort of looked at each other then at me so I said "I'm a doctor, you know" and snapped the hem of a glove off. Joker number one laughed and said that Joe or whatever his name was, was well overdue for a checkup......we laughed.

Take two, I go back to Safe 'R Brakes with my clutch slave which the mechanic assured me was well gummed up and needed fixing. Standing at the counter, same two comedians on the job and I give it a squeeze. The slave, I mean. It spurts all the hydraulic fluid up onto my chest and arms as it's no longer attached to the locked off hydraulic line. They both look at each other. I said "You'll have a bloody good laugh about this over smoko" and left as fast as I could

BRONZEE · Post by **BRONZEE** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:00 pm

The Z will always have the last laugh.

Pest · Post by **Pest** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:05 am

That's definately going in the next magazine

toycollector10 · Post by **toycollector10** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:47 pm

More pics...

us2 · Post by **us2** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:40 pm

Whats your helpers name?

Here's a link for steering wheels. I would do mine if I could just get the thing off.

http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/show ... estoration

Let us know what you did and how it turned out.

toycollector10 · Post by **toycollector10** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:00 pm

Thanks for the link. Cherry wood stain appears to be the key, something I hadn't thought of at all. The wheel rim appears to be a plastic casting with applied wood-grain effect. I'll post up some more pictures as I make progress on it. My dog is Fi Fi La Poodle, AKA Phoebe. My other Poodle is Polly and she features at the end of the video below, if anyone is interested...

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=toy ... 4FJwIpf7xA

toycollector10 · Post by **toycollector10** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:06 pm

us2 wrote:Here's a link for steering wheels. I would do mine if I could just get the thing off.

Just drop in to your local garage and they will have it off in a jiffy. If they can't get if off with a short sharp knock in the right place and at the right angle some workshops have a tool that looks like a gear puller. The center bolt is placed against the top of the splined shaft and the two arms out to the side go behind the centre boss and it's an easy job just to wind it off until it pops and breaks the sticking point.

us2 · Post by **us2** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:32 pm

Good video. Thats a nice old Kwaka.

toycollector10 · Post by **toycollector10** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:30 pm

I cleaned the rim by soaking it in hot water then using very fine grade wet and dry sandpaper followed up by 000 grade oil free steel wool

toycollector10 · Post by **toycollector10** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:32 pm

Then I bought these colours but they were hopeless really. And just about every picture of a Z1 steering wheel on a Zed car is the same, poo brown.

toycollector10 · Post by **toycollector10** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:36 pm

One of the forums www.jdm-car-parts.com recommended acrylic clear so I ran with it and the job came out not too bad, overall.
This is coat number one. I followed up with three more with a light rub down with oil free 000 grade steel wool in between.