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Sorry, I should have clarified. 20-30 seconds of crank time total. As in I will crank it for 5 seconds, stop, and repeat. Each 5 second set progressively slows down and the lights dim darker and darker until it just can't turn the motor over anymore and the lights are nearly dead. So it takes about 4-6 5/second cranks before the car is dead. With the battery testing out perfect it should be able to crank the car for a loooong time. I mean it's rated for 800CCA, 1000CA, 50aH, and has 100 minute reserve time. Something is definitely wrong. It should be spinning like a top. Is there anyway the test performed can come back with a false reading? Or the battery can read proper voltage with no amps?

So I have a strange issue occurring on my 72 240z. I have been driving the car without issue for the past 2 months since I bought the car. The car has triple Weber 40s, l24 block, n42 head, mechanical fuel pump still, etc. I didn't drive the car for about 9 days, and I am used to needing to pump the gas a bit and modulate the throttle to get it running once it has sat a bit. I went to go start the car and the car is completely dead. The car is acting like the battery is 100% dead. Well I have an Optima redtop in the back of my miata (that's in pieces) that fits just fine so I dropped it in. I got a couple 15 second cranks out of it, but then the battery acted like it was dying too. I first attributed this to the battery having sat a bit so i threw it on the trickle charger for 5-6 days. I took it back out and the car could only crank for maybe 20 seconds total before acting like the battery was dead again. I repeated this one more time, same results. When I first put the Optima the battery into the car fresh of the trickle charger it cranked really fast, but slows down to the point it can't even crank the motor with in 30 seconds or less. The lights dim, the dash dims, the head lights barely function. 100% symptoms of a dead battery. This is where it gets odd. So I take the Redtop down to my local Autozone. The guys there have this fancy load tester and it has a specific setting for Redtop Optimas. The two guys at this location really seem to know their stuff BTW, I know some locations have some rather shady unknowledgeable guys behind the counter. Well the battery tests better than new. Read 12.87 volts, passed the load test with flying colors. The guy there suggested that it could be either the starter solenoid or the starter, but he was kind of guessing at the problem because that is the only thing the battery is directly connected too. Now I am inclined to try swapping it out, but I wanted to check if this is a common issue or if anyone has had such a weird situation happen before. TLDR: Car acts like battery is dying very fast, cranks full speed down to a near stop in 20-30 seconds. The battery is testing out perfect. What could be another cause?

Pretty awesome. I just recently emailed Fortune Auto to see if there was any interest seeing as this Tokico business really screws things up for a lot of us, but they were uninterested. Curios, how much did it cost having those sleeves made? I'm sure others would be interested once you have it figured out.

Cockerstar has the right idea. You can order zerks from mcmaster for a couple bucks. Add one to the center of each urethane bushing. You just drill and tap the arm. Make sure to place them at a point it wont bind when the arm moves. Then you just use a grease gun on each nipple every 6 months or so. Makes regreasing a 10 minute job and makes your bushings last a lot longer because they are properly lubricated. Heres a link to some zerks. I'm not sure the correct length for a z, last car I did this to was a miata. Haven't torn my z down yet. http://www.mcmaster.com/#zerk-grease-fittings/=fw2ewy 949racing has a great miata specific tutorial. Just google "949racing zerk". Same idea just different car, the pictures will explain everything. I'd be worried penetrating oil would permeate the urethane and compronise its structure causing it to become soft, breakdown, or deform.