So its finally happening after been off the road for well over a year the zed is on Target for its refurbishment.

 

Last year I started with doing all the underbody suspension stuff to make the ride more stable and after that

I decided I wanted to do a full strip down to the bare shell and start from scratch to create a show quality z32.

 

After much bad luck and many thousands of pounds wasted on rotted zeds i'm cracking on with the original plan.

 

So as a quick update i'll post some older picks followed over the next few weeks by an overall progress report.

 

Starting off with how she was when I first purchased her 3 years ago until the state she is now then showing the

strip down and all the bad luck I've had.

 

So here she is as I bought her :

 

 

 

Hey buddy,

 

They look great and thanks for posting up some pics to see them.

 

Cant wait until the road trip on Saturday to collect them.

 

PS. Should have mentioned the bolsters been in bad condition as likely would have ordered new foam too.

 

But i'm happy all the same as they look great.

 

Lee

 

PS. Should have mentioned the bolsters been in bad condition as likely would have ordered new foam too.

 

 

I didn't know myself until I stripped the covers off yesterday, Lee.

 

Glad you like what you're seeing so far :thumbup1:

No problem, they do look great and the pictures likely don't do justice to your craftsmanship.

 

;)

They look smashing, great work Simon [emoji106]

Full set of callipers arrived from Banzai today so plan to get these cleaned up, degreased and refurbed

with the new piston and seal kits that I bought last week, finally a repaint to make them new looking.

 

These are aluminium so will replace my rusty cast iron callipers.

 

And that's the rear seats all completed now, with a day to spare as well! :biggrin:

 

I'll post some pictures tomorrow :)

Working on my fog lights today as well as a few other issues; some good some bad.

 

 

 

The bad issue I've got is to do with my new quarter glass trims in that they seem to be too short.

 

The gap is big enough that I couldn't be properly sealed up so the question is has zcentre sold me quarter moulding from a shortie ?

 

 

Shortie ones are considerably shorter than the 2+2 ones, Lee. Shorter than the ones you have there.

 

Is the little flap that sits over the end of the moulding missing? I can't see it in your picture. I think it's part of the quarter window rubber...

I still have the old rubbers and when you compare them the older ones are longer by at least 10mm.

 

The rubber that covers the end is missing yes but the other trim should still butt up close to it.

Shortie ones are considerably shorter than the 2+2 ones, Lee. Shorter than the ones you have there.

 

Is the little flap that sits over the end of the moulding missing? I can't see it in your picture. I think it's part of the quarter window rubber...

 

Correctamondo (lol)! Your quarter glass is missing the wrap round prt of the rubber seal. Most of the windows that have the trim piece removed suffer from this as they rarely come off without damaging the rubber in some way.

I still have the old rubbers and when you compare them the older ones are longer by at least 10mm.

 

The rubber that covers the end is missing yes but the other trim should still butt up close to it.

 

Doh!

Those mouldings are too long to fit a SWB. If they're the Kumura replicas (like I got from Z1), it could be that they're not quite long enough, but I'd have expected that flap to cover the shortfall (if it was present).

I have the Kuruma Z mouldings and they fit fine from memory, maybe you have them too far forward?

Rear seats. More work than they might first appear!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some are taken with the flash (cos it's pitch black here!) and some just with the light on.

 

All together, I think they look pretty snazzy and should look great in Lee's Zed! :biggrin:

The calliper rebuild starts :

 

 

 

 

Used an engine gunk remover to get all the excess grease, oil and muck removed which the wife kindly done.

 

 

 

One calliper was jammed stiff so I've left it to steep in oil over night to see if it will free up a bit.

 

Road Trip!!!

 

Getting my breakfast then the family are taking a trip to Mondos.

I'll see you there for a coffee and a chat too Lee.

113 miles to go, should be there by 2pm

Bet you're excited to get that interior back and fitted:dance:

Bet you're excited to get that interior back and fitted:dance:

 

I'm excited to see it out of the living room... but not as excited about that as Fran is! :lol:

I was talking to Lee !! :tt2: Still I suppose you're correct also Si:thumbup1::lol:

The calliper rebuild starts :

 

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when i rebuild mine every one told me not to split them, cant remember the reason for this.

Seats are now on their way back to Scotland! :thumbup1:

 

It was good to meet Lee and his family this afternoon :biggrin: