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Nice! maybe I'll be able to hit 600,000kms afterall. Once the pathy is highway worthy again

I bought my '87 2 dr from a wrecker. all it needed was a rad, all sheet metal in front of the windshield and the rad support got transplanted. Ran fine after that...until i blew a head gasket....but it's mostly good now. Not bad for 585000 kilometers

Thanks! I have a 87 2dr with a Z24i. I think it has 2 injectors in the intake manifold right before the forks that go from 2 tubes to 4 at the head. Maybe I just need to replace the O2 sensor then, I tried scrapping some of the carbon build up off when I had my motor apart. Maybe I did more damage than good...junk.

I put my timing shaft in one tooth BTDC for the distributor/oil pump and then being too lazy to take it all apart again. Naturally I took a die-grinder to the dist. housing adjustment slots to get the amount of adjustment needed to compensate for my mistake. But now I'm concerned that somehow I've affected the fuel system of something because my pathy is chugging a bit at low RPM and loosing power on the highway. Any ideas?

thanks for all the feedback! I didn't even know about the Heli-coils. I was originally going to use those solid piece inserts with the lock pins you have to hammer in. Now to head down to NAPA, PartSource or Autovalue and try to find them. p.s. just to clarify, I'm not heli-coiling my headbolt, just the rockershaft bracket bolts on the six holes closest to the rear of the motor.

So I blew a head gasket a month ago and two weeks after I got it all back together I break my rocker arm assembly. It seems my chain tensioner slipped a couple notches and created some seriour tension on my rocker shaft brackets via the cam and pulled the bolts right out of the head on the last three brackets. Turned my truck into a two cylinder as it's a Z24. I don't wanna take the head off again so I was wondering if I could get around that by either drill and tapping the holes and using thread inserts or just using different bolts and foregoing the inserts altogether. Any input?

Calgary, here! broke rocker arm assembly and the bolt holes are now stripped! No wheelin' for me

I e-mailed him and he says it's sold

that's sweet, got me wanting to get off my butt this weekend and finally put my JGC springs in my 2dr

My pathy has approx 366,000 miles (586,000kms) I just blew a head gasket and have only owned it for about 10 months. besides the head gasket i've only had to change the thremostat and the front driveshaft....oh ya I had to replace the passenger side front corner cause it was smushed before it was brought to the auto wrecker I bought it from. besides the rad everything else was cosmetic.

I'd love one is it still available? I'm in Calgary where are you?

wow this is an old topic...well I have an 87 pathy with a carburated Z24 that has 584,000kms on it. Still good for a snow pile climb or mud bogging!

Mine is silver with primer, one red fender, the other fender and door are charcoal grey, and the hood is white. But it used to be all silver.

That twin spark idea sounds cool, I'll have to look into that. It doesn't seem like there are many fans of the old Z24, it's too bad, mine has 584,000km's on it now and it's still going pretty good.