#ZedShed Gina’s Jersey special 3.0

[Lee]

Kicking off the new season in the shed we took in Gina’s 3.0. It’s a 51k mile 3.0 with exceptional history from the island of Jersey. The biggest benefit of this is they don’t salt roads out there so it’s going to be very clean and lacking corrosion.

Quick walk round. Just some nasty badges and very stock wheels.

we also noticed the typical rocking seats and both door cards lacking in handles.

very low miles

bay not been cleaned in a very long time, also showing off our new engine bay light.

looking underneath and it’s so clean

such clean arms

front is just as clean

typical totally shot beam bushes offering no support. There should be a finger sized gap between the plate and bottom of bush.

stay tuned for the next big update. She’s already stripped.

 

[spurs fan in a coupe]

Lovely, crying out for style 78s.

 

[Lee]

Lovely, crying out for style 78s.

Gina has asked if you might have a nice set of wheels. Let me know.

 

[spurs fan in a coupe]

Gina has asked if you might have a nice set of wheels. Let me know.

Coincidentally I have a nice set of style 78!

 

[andyglym]

Nice car, interesting engine bay

 

[Althulas]

 

[Lee]

Part 2.

The guys made a start removing the back end while I was away doing daddy duties. They make it look easy even when I’m not about.

First job is always to remove the exhaust, always made difficult with this style of exhaust on the 2.2 & 3.0.

only one had to be cut but all will be slotted and removed to future proof.

Exhaust removed

next up heat shields and prop.

Not much left already

next up the guys made very easy work dropping the subframe complete on our new assembly table.

Guys said every nut n bolt came out with no issues.

nice big hole

one subframe

Next up the guys started stripping down the rear end. First up showing the rear beam bushes totally shot

didn’t get many photos of this stage.

Rear subframe assembly fully stripped ready for bearing removal

moving onto the following day we started stripping the front.

both looking relatively tidy.

quick half way through strip down

needed to call in girl power!

while that was going on the guys in stores starting cleaning up the diff. Came up so well.

Nice n clean now, still will get a new diff bush

few more bits removed. Car has very little left attached.

Straps removed awaiting @Mazza strap specials.

we did a full layout, really interesting to see everything laid out.

Like a z3 has shed its skin

thats about it for the moment. Big pile of bits ready for powder coating

always worth doing the front subframe. So we fitted the engine brace. New engine mounts also to go on.

Very rare rear 3.0 drive shafts cleaned up well

stay tuned for the next big update in about a weeks time.

 

[Stevo7682]

Nice to see you guys back working on zeds again great work as usual.

Stephen.

 

[Mint]

Good progress on this one guys. Not as much of a challenge as mine was

 

[Nodzed]

Great job guys as ever.

 

[B21]

Excellent work…seems like the E85s struggle with a fair degree of corrosion..maybe it’s just age?

 

[Lee]

Excellent work…seems like the E85s struggle with a fair degree of corrosion..maybe it’s just age?

Not seen much on the main chassis with the E85 but the bolt on body parts we see holes.

 

[Lee]

While we wait for parts to arrive from the main land we did some cleaning and future proofing.

Engine mounts removed.

gave the back end a wipe down. Amazing how clean everything is.

we also removed the exhaust studs to make future exhaust removal so much easier.

we did have a casualty today. The club hammer I’ve had man & boy died! Luckily the head came off on the back stroke.

were also waiting on the metal work to come back from the powder coaters. Watch this space.

 

[t-tony]

I had a similar issue with a 14lb sledge hammer some years ago Lee. Glad to hear you were as lucky as I was. But it seemed to take ages before it came down.

Tony.

ps. I was breaking up the concrete base our old mobile home stood on, not working on a Z.

 

[Mazza]

I witnessed this and not pointing any blame ………..It was GAZ !!!!

 

[Mazza]

And if anyone thought these refurbs were easy
I have a video from today of Lee, Trev and Gaz removing a bearing from a trailing arm . Without the right tooling and knowing how to do it these bearings would be almost impossible to remove.
If I knew how , I would put the video up… but dont do this computer stuff!!!

 

[t-tony]

'Seasy Malc. You need a lump hammer and . . . .

Tony.

 

[Pingu]

And if anyone thought these refurbs were easy
I have a video from today of Lee, Trev and Gaz removing a bearing from a trailing arm . Without the right tooling and knowing how to do it these bearings would be almost impossible to remove.
If I knew how , I would put the video up… but dont do this computer stuff!!!

Did he smash the hub out using the old nut and a 1/2" drive extension...

 

[Lee]

Did he smash the hub out using the old nut and a 1/2" drive extension...

You heathen we do things in a controlled manner!

 

[petecossie]

I had similar thing happen with a hammer I had from when I was working at ICI in 70s, couldn't bear to part with so got new hammer shaft from Amazon. They do all sorts of sizes, cheap aswell. Seemed to be the only place that stocked them as every other local outlet just wanted to sell complete hammers.