Friday, June 24, 2005

Damn the Z brakes are a pain!! I need a week off now, hehe. Anyway, I started the 5lug/Z brake install tonight. It seems that I should have held off till tomorrow and read up on the Z32 rear brake assembly before going ahead and start pulling parts off.
But hey, I got a little excited, as its hot as hell, and stared the sucka. I pretty much removed the S13 upright and took off the brakes. Only to notice that since I don't have/want to buy Z32 shocks, I better leave this sucker be. Than I had to remove the Z hub and ebrake assembly from the Z32 upright. And since the dust shield was rotted all to hell, I just cut off all the unnecessary rusted part. Than figured I might as well do the same to the other Z32 upright. With parts ready to install, I had little time before it started getting dark (Spotlights kick ass to solve that problem hehe). But came up with another snag as the ebrake mounting bolt that goes through the upright didn't want to fit inside, so I had to do a little massaging of the parts before they would finally bolt up. Than I started to bolt in the upright, which went slow without air tools (I couldn't use them after 10:30 w.o the neighbors getting mad) so I decided to dis-assemble the caliper, put on the rotor and the wheel and worry about the rest tomorrow, when the air tools are usable again.
I had fun, it wasn't as difficult after doing the Z32 brakes on the S14, as a lot of the stuff was alike. Now off to get some rest and be up and ready tomorrow, maybe I'll make the meet too.

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