Dicky

Have you had experience or is the recommendation from a friend. Thanks for the feedback by the way í ½í¸Š

Can anyone recommend a garage in the north within striking distance of a Newcastle who know what their doing when it comes to setting up wheel alignment on the Z. I've had it done three times now by main dealer and at a place recommended by a friend. All say its spot on (no paperwork provided) but I'm still not confident, even less confident after reading some forum posts and the specialist job it seems to be. I've got uneavan wear on the front tyres which looks like a Toe problem. I've also got 20 mm spacers fitted and am concerned they may be having an affect. Wouldn't like to remove them because they have vastly lifted my confidence when cornering.

Just found some info that suggests these are high voltage wire wound resistors as Tricky Ricky said and are generally in the range 1k to 15k ( apparently it's not critical). Mine measured approx 2k so I'm supposing my coil pack was in fact duff and this resistor is ok. I'll keep it to one side just in case though

Very Interesting! Looked at the diagram again and noticed the diode is internal to the coil pack. Wish I hadn't cannibalised it now !

Found this interesting following the replacement of a faulty one on my cyl 6 the other day. I decided to pull it to pieces and explore. The long tube which goes onto the plug can be pulled off revealing what looks like a long spring with a small bullet type thingy between the coil output and the spark plug. I looked at the diagrams which seem to show it as a diode. Anyway the garage tell me these diodes/ resistors are the most common bit to fail. I can't see any markings on mine and it reads just over 2K ohms in both directions so unless it's buggered it's not a diode. Considering a new coil pack costs £110 it would be nice to identify this component and find a supplier. Mind u on the other hand Alex can supply used coil packs quite cheap.....decisions decisions!

How about when u want to remove it. Does it come off easily or does it stick firm like the window tint film and have to be picked off piece by piece?

Similar problem. Got a ticking noise from the offside tailgate area, had it since new. Pulled off panels all around, taped things down jammed bits in to make wobble bits rigid all to no avail. The little bas---d still ticks away. I think it's gods way of getting back at me for not believing. Best you can do is turn the radio up, but then you can't hear if the indicator has cancelled unless you consciously look at the binicle light. If you forget to do that though you tend to find people pull out in front of you at junctions. Make life very exciting and very interesting though ha ha.

Sorry just Pm'ed you before receiving the replys

PS Is there a gasket kit available for this job ?

Thanks lads this is a great forum for help and advice. Apologies for appearing a bit mentally challenged by what I'm about to say next but want to be sure I've got it right because the garage planted a slightly different picture in my mind. The problem is due to O rings which form part of the rocker (cam) cover leaking and I will need to either fit a new rocker cover or I can buy these O rings separately and replace them in the rocker cover.

Oooops the short cut goes to the full section. It's page E65

Had my spark plugs changed the other day and the garage told me that on one of the tubes into which the spark plug fits had oil in it. The tube, which goes into the right hand cylinder head apparently has O rings fitted (they weren't sure exactly how it goes together) and they suspected oil was passing one of these and filling up the spark plug tube. Has anyone got experience of this problem or has stripped the engine down to a level where access to these O rings is possible and can tell me if it's much of a job ie can the average Joe tackle it. I've attempted to provide a short cut below to the manual drawing showing the three tubes coming out of the head (not to good with the old computer malarkey so may well be a drop off) http://www.nicoclub.com/FSM/350Z/coupe/2004_Coupe+Roadster/EM.pdf#page79

There wouldn't be enough space on the forum!

NICE ONE YOUNG MAN! Robbing bastards, their all around us. So be careful out there cos their out to get us.

Buggar Alex the stealers have won again! It's my own fault for being lazy and not wanting to wait to have it fixed and not doing it myself. Tell the truth I've been buried into the manual all tonight and am kicking myself for not diagnosing the problem myself and fixing it. Never again, but unfortunately we pay for our mistakes. I'm off to kick F--k out the dog now!

No I'm not paying them £600 of my little friends to drill out the sheared bolt. But I am going to get the dealership who sheared it in the first place to sort it out for free. It was fine when I gave them the new plugs to fit. I'm only paying for a new set of plugs and a coil pack which is expensive enough.

Thanks for the offer young man. Unfortunately being an oldie I've lost all the enthusiasm I used to have when I was younger and just can't get motivated these days unless it's absolutely straight forward. Ho hum, the joys of being an old fart Shame you not in my neck of the woods, i could have sorted it for you for just the price of a coil pack if that what was needed, the insert should be easy to remove and it would just take a suitably shaped nut epoxied in to complete, but not really necessary as the the coil pack would stay put anyway. As for user names, i started out on car forums years ago and because the swear filter wouldn't let me use Tricky-Dicky which is actually what i am called (Richard) in reality, i went with Tricky-Ricky which was the nearest option, so i have just stuck with it.

That's Stealers for you! By the way the service manager told me they charge different Hourley rates depending on how old the car is. Since mine is 10 yrs old the rate would be £48/hr, newer cars can go up to £65/ hr They seem to charge what they like. If they have to hang a sign over the coffee machine to say it's broken they put the hrly rate up by £10 You shouldn't be saying Give me a break more like Give me a Job. ha ha That's 12,5 hours to drill out the sheared bolt..... :scare: Give me a break...!!!

That's Stealers for you! By the way the service manager told me they charge different Hourley rates depending on how old the car is. Since mine is 10 yrs old the rate would be £48/hr, newer cars can go up to £65/ hr They seem to charge what they like. If they have to hang a sign over the coffee machine to say it's broken they put the hrly rate up by £10

Thanks Tricky-Ricky for your input. Unfortunately it's to late as I've instructed the stealer to go ahead and replace the coil pack. You could be right that the bolt has been over tightened and I'm hopping my original stealer will cough up for the bolt replacement ( not sure if they'll go for the new coil pack, but nothing ventured .... I was hopping I could come up with some link between the coil pack failing and the seared bolt. By the way your username has given me an idea....how does a Tricky Dicky sound! I don't want to steal your thunder but it does have a certain ring to it ha ha

On Wed I noticed the engine seemed to be miss firing on one cylinder. Couldn't get it into my usual stealer so put it into another one who rang me later in the day to ask me to pop along to take a look at what they'd found. The mis fire was associated with cylinder 6 coil pack and they had found one it's securing bolts had been sheared off when the last set of plugs were fitted by my usual stealer ( quick deviation...in 2011 got my usual stealer to fit a set of Iridium plugs I'd bought. They had only done about 15k mls but looked in a terrible condition so will not be fitting them again) anyway who ever did the job had stuck a lump of foam rubber on top of the coil pack and some how managed to clamp it under an associated bracket to keep it in but kept stum about it. I rang my usual stealer to complain and will be taking it in next week for them to look at it. As it happens a new coil pack costs £110 ( which I will be attempting to get refunded by my usual stealer) so the full job to fit new plugs and one coil pack £340 ish. The new stealer also quoted me over £600 to drill out the seared bolt. I know these coil packs have a transistor switching the primary of a small transformer and was wondering if anyone knew if these coils need to have both securing bolts fitted, possible to earth different parts of the internal circuitry ? ? It just seems a bit coincidental that the faulty coil pack is the one with the seared off fixing bolt!

It's hardly on show at any time so no one's going to see it so fill your boots and have it as like it!

Just to wrap this one up. After more excuses from him and threats of IAEA reports and court action from me he finally agreed to fit a refurbished crank along with new shells etc. Collected the car this morning and asked to see my original crank and the shells which he showed me. I also asked for a copy of the invoice he received from the replacement crank supplier which he also provided. I rang the company up to confirm what had been supplied and everything appeared to check out ok. Had a run around and no oil leaks as yet, yipeeeee. Hope that's the end of it now and feel a bit sorry for the guy as he's a hard worker who I believe had been caught out by his incompetent mechanic. If only he'd been straight with me from the start rather than the bullshit stories he and his son gave to fob me off, things may have been different. Hey ho

Couldn't care less what others think .......we like them and that's what's important. I would probably hate the cars they drive!

Cheers young man. In fact I looked at that one this morning. I need to check the suggested local garage because it carries the name of an infamous family in my neck of the woods, not sure if their related and would hate to put it in then receive a ransom note to get it back. Ha ha