MasterCookieman

Thing is, even if I had one, once I had it on the nut I still wouldn't be able to move it. I've been looking at 'S' spanners but they tend to be ring spanners which isn't any good. Its now snowing again!! If I can get under the Zed tomorrow I may just undo the the slave flexi pipe and pull up the master until I can get it out enough to undo pipe bolt underneath. I just want to drive my car!! Arrrrgh! (Charlie Brown style)

Ok, I have a new master clutch cylinder. I spent hours in the freezing cold trying to get the old one off. I managed to get the nuts off attaching it to the firewall and pulled the cir-clip from the banjo bolt that connects it to the clutch pedal. I just cant get the pipe nut loose from the bottom of the cylinder. I can get a 10mm spanner on it but there is no room to move it, the brake cylinder / servo is in the way. I could try getting to it from underneath the car but I dont think it will make any difference tbh. I'm left with the option of disconnecting it at the slave and pulling it all up through the engine bay, which I'd like to avoid. Any suggestions?

Have you seen this thread - http://300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=127690&highlight=sill I'm hoping mines not rotten, I have side skirts attached, no way to know really...

Thanks! I'll email mjp and see if he can get one, beats paying £80! :thumbup1:

Ok, forgot I said I would do this, lol! The plate is 28.5 cm across and 21 cm top to bottom. The actual plate 'space' is 35cm across and about 17.5 top to bottom. Hope this helps!

Thanks! That's really helpful! I'm beginning to understand what's going on now. I think maybe something has gone wrong in the past (maybe a faulty relay) and they've rewired the all of the lights, but not bothered with the interior lights, or didn't realise that they were on the same circuit. It seems like a bit of a mess. I think I could wire in the other square light and get the fog lights working, even if I wire them up separately. I see the interior lights being a harder job...I wonder how much an auto electrician would charge to sort all this out. Does anyone know if not being able to select main beam permanently is an MOT fail? Saying that it was MOT'd in Nov and passed with only one main beam headlight working for flash with no permanent main beam.

I can measure mine tomorrow...but I noticed today that it doesn't quite fill the space. I want a nice US or Jap style one!!! Don't we all though...

Thanks, I'll have a dig around the fuse compartment tomorrow. I'm happy that the squares are the main beam, this lessens the problem, just one light to get working really...and the fogs...

I think the rattling was an odd piece of pipe attached to the exhaust, part of a bracket. Its difficult to explain. I don't know why its there, but it as hanging off, likely knocked off with snow/ice, so I pushed it back on. I also tightened a jubilee clip and fastening both pipes together. So I'm hoping the rattling is over, but wont know until I get the car moving again.

My sidelights / headlights are wired into a different switch in the side of my light pod, as apparently the proper switch stopped working. The wiring is a bit of a mess and the off-side 'square' headlight isn't even wired up, there isn't even a connector for the bulb! :confused1: This might sound like a silly question, but I'm hoping someone can tell me which lights should come on when? Sidelights seem fine. However, when I put headlights on the two round headlight come on and that it. Should the square ones come on too? If I pull back the indicator stalk the main beam (flash) on the near side headlight comes one (the other square one cant as its not connected). Do the square lights have a dipped mode or are they just main beams? Pushing back the stalk does nothing, normally this would be the main beam switch. As for front fogs the switch does nothing, but I guess these should work when the pod switch is turned on... Interior lights (map lights, boot light etc) don't work at all, I think this may be down to a fuse (or more butchered wiring!), does anyone know which fuse the interior lights are on?

Ok, thought I'd write an update. Got under the car and had someone pump the clutch, the slave was moving the clutch leaver, though not a lot. Meanwhile inside the car, in the foot-well behind the clutch; fluid was streaming from the master cylinder.... So looks like the seals have gone. There is some pressure getting to the clutch, but not enough to engage a gear. Odd that they should go 3 days after buying the car...hmm, but I don't see how the problem could have been disguised. I don't suppose anyone has a spare lying around, I've noticed there is one for sale in the Sale section, but its for a TT and I have an NA. I'm looking at this and will likely buy it unless someone tells me not to for some reason - http://www.importcarparts.co.uk/parts_info.asp?id=3793&cat=87&sub=126&sec=0&var=0&dc=&gen=&searchKey= I saw a rebuild kit in the US, but they didn't ship internationally.

I recently bought Dot 4, but read somewhere Dot 3 was ok.

Ooops....too late...:pinch:

I've noticed a large steel tie between both pipes just before the cat, there may be a jubillee clip too... I guess I just need to get under the car instead of guessing everything. Roll on Saturday!

The thing is I bought a litre of fluid thinking I would need to refill the entire system, but it took only an inch before it was full. :confused1:

If it has popped will it show signs of leakage?

Ok, I've had my Zed less than a week and I've broken her! Snow or not I've been using the car on and off, just getting use to her. I haven't had any problems other than in-roads where there are two tyre tracks and a clump of ice / snow in the middle. Now my Zed has huge back boxes, behind these back boxes there seem to be addition silencers, these rub and catch on the snow. I assume its these catching. Anyway, I was driving along on a clear road when I could hear a rattle, which got increasingly louder. I figured I had knocked loose an exhaust clamp which was now rattling around the exhaust. The rattling / vibrating was making quite a bit of noise now, but I made it home. I pulled into the car park, went to change into reverse which was crunchy and hard to engage, then back into first which almost wouldn't go in. I finally parked but now have a floppy soft pedal and cant enguage any gear. I researched this on the site and have topped up the clutch reservoir, which literally took an inch of fluid. This made no difference, still a floppy pedal. Due to the darkness and cold, not to mention snow and ice, I've only been able to jack the car up and have a quick look, I haven't been able to get under the car yet. I will on Saturday. Thing is I originally thought I'd damaged the slave cylinder or pipes and had leaked all my fluid, but it seems not, that seems fine. So I think I must have damaged something mechanical, probably with snow or ice? I am wondering now whether what I thought was an loose exhaust clamp is actually somehow connected to the loss of clutch? The plan is to get under the car on Saturday, but any help on what to look for or what to do would be appreciated. :) My car is a 2+2 N/A. As far as I know it wasn't converted to manual, its always been manual.

It was now or never, I've been trying to pick her up for 3 weeks! I hadn't driven RWD in a while, so will admit to being apprehensive, but all was fine, it was scarier around 7pm when I went out, everything had turned to ice, felt the rear go a few times but just had to take it slow. :)

Picked her up today... Looks like I'll have to get a new Toad certificate and there's a need for some headlight wiring...god knows what's going on there...oh and the map reading lights don't work. The car obviously was a members car in the past, anyone recognise her?

Thanks, glad I'm not alone then. Well, I will hopefully have the car next weekend unless something goes wrong! :) But Yowser, really your avatar should be one of the girls! ;)

Hey all, Hoping to join the Zed club soon and currently looking at a nice 92 300zx non turbo 2+2. I have a quick question though, I did an insurance comparison through confused.com and entered the reg from the pic of the car on ebay and it comes up as a Twin Turbo! The advert description specifically states its non turbo, so not just a listing error. Is this common, or is it possible maybe the turbos have been removed or another engine put in. I imagine that if confused.com thinks its a twin turbo then that's what's on the V5? I can manually select a non turbo, but surely it should know from the reg... Thanks! Paul