The rebuild has finally started today and so far in a few hours I've managed to completely strip the interior.

 

 

 

Next job on my list is to get both the bumpers, tailgate and bonnet off.

 

After that i'll work on the body panels and stripping down the engine.

So my zed is on the ramps for a second day after they forgot to adjust the ride height before alignment.

 

 

This time hopefully they got it right.

 

One thing that baffles me is that they said that the front right of my zeds chassis is 30mm longer than the left.

 

How can this be possable ?

Right half of a lwb welded to left half of swb ?

Right half of a lwb welded to left half of swb ?

 

Don't think so, this zed was stock and very clean when purchased.

So my zed is on the ramps for a second day after they forgot to adjust the ride height before alignment.

 

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This time hopefully they got it right.

 

One thing that baffles me is that they said that the front right of my zeds chassis is 30mm longer than the left.

 

How can this be possable ?

 

My wife measured it?!

So my zed is on the ramps for a second day after they forgot to adjust the ride height before alignment.

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]118535[/ATTACH]

 

This time hopefully they got it right.

 

One thing that baffles me is that they said that the front right of my zeds chassis is 30mm longer than the left.

 

How can this be possable ?

 

What points are they measuring from? I’m assuming wheel centre to wheel centre?

Not sure, I'll ask tomorrow when I goto pick it up.

Finally picked up the zed this morning and she is safely home.

 

 

Did they give you a printout of the alignment angles they achieved?

Run out of ink on the printer so never got a print out atthe time.

 

i took a photo of the screen when they were doing it but before it was finished.

 

 

 

Did they give you a printout of the alignment angles they achieved?

So back in the garage and jacked up once again.

 

This time to wire and bolt in the new wideband lambda sensors for my link ecu setup.

 

 

Interior and dash back in.

 

Great to see it in the final stages Lee! You got it running yet or are you waiting for it to go to the tuners?

Waiting to go to the tuners this time for first start.

 

Great to see it in the final stages Lee! You got it running yet or are you waiting for it to go to the tuners?

So my zed is on the ramps for a second day after they forgot to adjust the ride height before alignment.

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]118535[/ATTACH]

 

This time hopefully they got it right.

 

One thing that baffles me is that they said that the front right of my zeds chassis is 30mm longer than the left.

 

How can this be possable ?

 

You may recall I had a similar issue, where my passenger side rear wheel was further back than the drivers. In short it was down to the rear traction rod. I believe like me you’ve got full aftermarket arms? The toe and camber can be correct but the traction arm throws the wheel further back and alters the caster angle.

Centre to centre is about 100”s

First start and mapping tomorrow so zed is out the garage and will spend a night on the trailer until the morning now.

 

 

 

Hope all goes well tomorrow mate. :clover:

Zed has arrived safely at DynaTune.

With the lack of news and your last comment on Facebook, I'm guessing things didn't go to plan. Gutted for you if that's the case.

 

What happened?

Not to plan as such.

 

Thought we had an issue with the starter or flywheel at first.

 

We then proceeded to check everything over and removed the coil packs and plugs to inspect the heads.

 

Chamber 5 was spotless so it was either no spark or no fuel; but seeing as it wouldn't start and locked up quickly we think we have a stuck injector as the first fault.

 

Next which was the biggest unknown issue is we found metal filings in the plenum which I've been told could be turbo failure.

 

At this point it's engine out to get the turbos off and inspect and clean everything again.

 

We cranked her a few times before discovering the material so I doubt damage to the engine, but we won't know until its stripped again.

 

Good news is we used a bora scope on the heads and they look fine.

Not to plan as such.

 

Thought we had an issue with the starter or flywheel at first.

 

We then proceeded to check everything over and removed the coil packs and plugs to inspect the heads.

 

Chamber 5 was spotless so it was either no spark or no fuel; but seeing as it wouldn't start and locked up quickly we think we have a stuck injector as the first fault.

 

Next which was the biggest unknown issue is we found metal filings in the plenum which I've been told could be turbo failure.

 

At this point it's engine out to get the turbos off and inspect and clean everything again.

 

We cranked her a few times before discovering the material so I doubt damage to the engine, but we won't know until its stripped again.

 

Good news is we used a bora scope on the heads and they look fine.

 

To find metal filings in the plenum from a none running motor is hard to believe thinking the turbo housing as the culprit mate..you would of heard audible evidence 1st imho:no: Without trawling back through your posts have you had any parts of the intake powder coated? as the filings might be blasting grit still hanging around if it has not been through a hot parts washer prior to the oven. Who built the motor this present time?

Nothing has been powder coated.

 

The filings that were found were on the passenger side only.

 

Not sure how they got there, but plan to take the plenum off tomorrow and give it a good look at.

 

The tops of the cylinders looked ok and intact when using the borascope.

 

 

To find metal filings in the plenum from a none running motor is hard to believe thinking the turbo housing as the culprit mate..you would of heard audible evidence 1st imho:no: Without trawling back through your posts have you had any parts of the intake powder coated? as the filings might be blasting grit still hanging around if it has not been through a hot parts washer prior to the oven. Who built the motor this present time?

 

seeing as it wouldn't start and locked up quickly.

 

Good news is we used a bora scope on the heads and they look fine.

 

Did you manage to check all of the valves were still in tact?

Just a cheap scope we had, i would need to do a proper strip of the heads to see for sure.

 

Did you manage to check all of the valves were still in tact?

May be worth trying a hand cranked compression test piston by piston.