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Today I swapped out the rear trailing arms with the ones from the 98. The bushings in the 94 arms were getting egg shaped and making noises.
I also put new shocks in the front of the car. But storms moved in before I could test drive it. I did manage to give it a bath before the rain moved in.
The shocks on that car all 4 only had about 3k miles on them...
1999 z28 Bright Blue Metallic 1 of 10
1999 z28 Hugger Orange RS 1 of >309 (Sold)
1997 z28 White 6 speed Heads and Cam. (Sold)
1994 z28 PPM auto Cam only (Sold)
1984 sport coupe red 4 cyl (Sold)
The shocks on that car all 4 only had about 3k miles on them...
Yeah, I know they were new. The bushings @ the bottom were destroyed,that was the squeak/groaning noise I was talking about. One side was metal on metal. It Sucks because there isnt any way to replace the bushings, believe me I tried too.
Pcm will be going back to Frost in the a.m. ...... So should I pull the dash for the swap. Or pull the intake and fix the knock sensors?...... decisions, decisions.....
Car ran great all day. It did spend a bit of time parked here and there but it ran fabulously when I drove it. It is going to suck to pull it this winter for rebuilding and....ahem....other stuff.... but it is necessary. I think Ill do the dash swap next. Maybe even this week if I can find some motivation....
Pcm will be going back to Frost in the a.m. ...... So should I pull the dash for the swap. Or pull the intake and fix the knock sensors?...... decisions, decisions.....
Center console is out , getting ready to drop the steering column tonight. I think I may have the old dash out tonight. Maybee even have the new one hung.
I may have to do some work on the headliner, the fabric is coming loose in the corners of the T tops. And I have the new seat belts to install. So I might pull the headliner and recover it. There is this fuax suade material that I want to use, I already had the sunvisors done in it. I think I am ready to give it another try.
Last edited by zeeman; August 6th, 2014, 10:37 AM.
ok Ive come to my senses. Im just going to fix my headliner, Ill get another headliner to experiment on with this material. I remember the last time not going so well.
Old dash out, new dash is in and hung. Duct work is in. Glove box is in. Some of the wiring is back in place I ll work on the drivers side tomorrow and likely get pretty close to finished. I am going to swap out the seat belts since I have much of the interior trim out. I will also fix the headliner since that will be out too, for the seat belts.
Once I am done with this round of interior upgrades I am going to start on the knock sensors and just get em done. Once again I am running out of summer....
90% of the dash is in. Center console is almost complete. I had an issue with the cluster. I broke the lens.
It was in bad shape,dirty, scratched etc. So I wet sanded it, and started to wheel it out, then zing! Smash! Shot that sucker across the garage,
against the wall, smashed into 1000 pieces. Took
me 4 hours to find another one. And then I got to wet sand, and rub that one out.
What a pain in the ass.
Its all back together now. I bagged the seat belt idea. I still need to work on the exhaust, it hits the x member during wot. I need to work on replacing the knock sensors also but, the pcm comes tomorrow so I am going to wait. I wanna run it a bit and then have it scanned again to make sure all the codes are cleared ....except the knock sensor of course. Ill probably do the knock sensor during the week.
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