$600 bucks just for an overnight job !.
One afternoon racing at Phillip island a couple of years back I had a
clutch fail.
With a fellow Z car racer (and Z workshop), we drove back 2 hours to his
workshop in Melbourne, had dinner and started at 8pm.
We had already spent a day racing and we were a bit tired.
With a bit of funbling around we had the thing in and out and ready for a
test drive at 3am - got to bed at his house at 3:30am
woke at 5:30 and drove to the race track to be thare at 7am for
scrutineering. my first race was at 9am and I could hardly keep my eyes
open.
I know guys who have got an engine out in 2 hours with air tools, experts -
a non roadsterite may take two days.
Regards
Howard
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Poorboy [SMTP:bitterrootprop@nidlink.com]
Sent: Saturday, 9 September 2000 11:32
To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Clutch change story
List,
I have to tell this story I heard today. I stopped by my buddy Joe
Klokkevold's shop today and their were to Roadsters there that I had
never seen before. I asked about the 70' 1600 he had out back and
he told me the guy came to him to replace the clutch and he quoted him
$600.00 and the guy told him that was high and went somewhere else.
The other place quoted him $250.00 not knowing the engine has to
come out first. Well they couldn't get the engine mount loose so they
cut it off at the frame and when it came time to put it back in they
used
JB weld to attach it. They also stripped the transmission mounting bolts
out and used sheet metal screws to reattach it. When they couldn't get
the speedo cable loose they took bolt cutters and cut it in half. They
also
bent the throttle shaft in the trans tunnel when lifting the engine out.
Joe said it cost the guy over $600.00 for him to repair the damage the
other guys did. I guess he should have stayed with someone who has
done a clutch job on a Roadster.
Mike
Nowroc
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