JMortensen

A friend of mine had a Yakima on her Z for a long time. She had to cut the rails down so that she could open the hatch, and I think even then she couldn't open it all the way. It will work.

That makes for an excellent hunt. Just not an excellent battle.

Take all the measurements you can (diameter of the syncro ring, width of the ring, thickness of the ring) then call a Porsche specialist or a German parts house. They should be able to measure one on their end and figure out which ones you need. IIRC they were out of the 915 transmission from the early 911's, and 1st thru 4th were all the same, 5th was smaller, just like the Porsche.

I have a friend who firmly believes that America never made it to the moon.

No problem! I still say grind off the welds, use the 12" springs you have, and just mount the perches in the right place. I think if you ground the welds off, put the strut in the tube and put the adjuster all the way at the top of the threaded sleeve, then loosely assembled everything, you would want the rear spring perch to be mounted so that the spring was touching the hat on top while sitting on the perch on bottom. You'll probably end up adjusting the front lower than the rear, because the Z's are kind of high in the front from the factory. You should have plenty of adjustment though if you've got 5" threaded collars.

That's funny. "Civilized" world.

The money that these countries get for protecting these animals comes from hunting them. Like it or not, that's where a lot of it comes from. The rest of your argument gets into "how many is enough" and since I am not a lion researcher, I wouldn't like to speculate on that. If they say that it is not endangered or threatened, then I'll go with that. If they change that figure to 75,000 or 200,000, then I'll go with that. I don't pretend to know as much as they do about that subject. Is it disgraceful? I don't know, I know I wouldn't do it, but I don't feel qualified to make that determination for EVERYONE all by myself.

wheelman, YEP! That's it! I like my explanation better though. It tends to get under people's skin more, and there really isn't a good argument against it, unless religion comes into the conversation. Since environmentalists are almost always left leaning socialist non-religious types it helps to flush out the emotion in their argument.

HeavyZ, if your argument was that we shouldn't hunt lions because they are endangered, then I think you have a point. I still haven't seen that they are even considered threatened, and I would leave those threatened and endangered distinctions up to the experts, you know, the ones whose research is funded by safaris... I was reading that lions are magnificent creatures and that anyone who hunts them should do so with their bare hands. Totally different argument. There is a time and a place to hunt endangered species too. When they get diseased and could transfer that disease to the rest of the population. Might as well let someone come in and pay big to kill the animal and use that money to further their cause. That's what they do with elephants a lot of the time.

You're right Pop. Sorry everyone, I get a little carried away sometimes. That says it better than I ever could.

Yes. If you shorten the rear tubes 2", that will lower the car 2" in the rear. If you don't do the same in the front, than the front will sit 2" higher than the rear. So to even it out you'll need to lower the front 2", which will put you close to the bumpstops. The point is not how long the tubes are, the point is where in the travel the vehicle sits level. Originally it sat level or close with the rear tubes longer than the front tubes, so that's what you need.

Can you prove me wrong? If not, then I'd like to take this time to give your argument back to you. Your argument is dumb.

This isn't going to go over well with you or most people, but I feel that my Winchester rifle is a product of nature. Since I am not a creationist, I feel that man evolved into a tool builder. He used his brain and his tools to make the Winchester which is also a tool, therefore it is NATURAL. Your Z is a product of nature. Nuclear power plants are natural. Maybe a religious person could get out of that conundrum, but since I feel that human existence is a product of nature, then everything humans do is natural. If you can explain to me how I'm wrong, I'd love to hear it. TO EAT IT, BECAUSE YOU CAN, SOME PEOPLE ENJOY IT, ETC

None of the sources I checked online had up to the minute stats on lion populations, but NONE of them listed the lion as an endangered species. You're right I don't read African newspapers. Do you? Was the endangered part really the argument? Didn't seem like it to me... Survival instinct.

If I were out in the bush in Africa alone, they WOULD outnumber me and track me down and kill me. And there would be no guilty lions saying "maybe you shouldn't kill that guy, he's not really a good source of food, and he's so majestic it would be a crime".

OK, if the slave has to be 7/8" extended to hit the fork at all, I'd say you need a longer pin.

HeavyZ, I think you're absolutely right in all of your previous arguments. The problem I have with this argument is that it really boils down to animal rights. You say "kill for fun", but it can be more closely defined as "when is it appropriate to kill an animal and when is it not". This is a slippery slope argument, and there is no other rationale for "this killing is appropriate, but that one is not" other than a purely emotional one that I've seen. BTW--The African Lion is currently not listed as endangered or threatened: http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/african_lion.html

When you tested this out of the car the slave moved 1". It should also move 1" on the car. If it only moves 1/8" on the car, then the most likely culprit is air in the lines which doesn't compress when its on the bench but does when it has to push on the pp. Sounds like it still needs a good bleed to me. A longer rod won't make the piston in the slave travel any further. Could also be a leaky master or slave, but that should be pretty apparent especially out of the car...

Thanks Aaron!!! You rock!

Seems to me kinda hard to be a "macho" hunter these days. So much easier to take the high road and say the PC thing. Then you come off looking like a "sensitive ponytail man" and that's what is non-offensive in today's society. Would you attack a lion or a bear or even a deer with your bare hands? The average lion weighs 350-550 lbs, and is equipped with 19 (I think) razor sharp claws and huge teeth and powerful jaws and can run (I'm guessing) 30-35 mph. So where is the fair fight in sending a human, or a group of humans out to do battle with their practically non existant claws and weak jaws and thin skin? That doesn't seem like a "fair" fight at all. How many men have been killed by lions? 100s, 1000s? How many lions have been killed by totally unarmed men? 0? 1? We evolved this way so that we can use tools. What were the first tools? Weapons. Not too much anthropological evidence supporting the stone age hairbrush, but they're out there finding knives and spear tips all the time. I agree with you that the meat eaters thing is a whole other argument, but it didn't seem to stop people from saying it, so I and some others defended that part of the argument. FORCED BIRTH CONTROL??? REALLY? Who would force it on them? The UN? The US? I'd rather just not provide aid then force birth control on some of these African countries... This points out my other pet peeve when it comes to hunting or being out in nature in general. People tend to romanticize Indians or tribesmen or aboriginees as "at one with nature". What a load of CRAP. They're people, and they'll use any advantage they can get. Just like people do. I haven't killed an animal in 10 years or more. I don't hunt, and probably won't until I have kids and I want to show them where food comes from, just like my dad did for me. When I looked at this video though, I was immediately thinking "I know where this is going to go and I don't like it". I knew that people would say roughly the things that have come out here. I wouldn't go on that hunt if someone else paid the $100K or whatever for me, but I also am not going to try and stop the guy from doing so, or pass judgement on him. There is, at least to me, a very big correlation between the hunter and EVERY ONE OF US. Every time one of us opens the throttle of our Z car and turns a lap on the track, or makes a pass at the drag strip, or even drives to the "warehouse of death" (grocery store) in our Zs, there is some idiot crying about how our cars are "overkill" and "don't need to be on the road" and "macho machines" that we put together to "prove our manliness". Even though I wouldn't be part of that hunt I'm going to defend that guy to the end because I think he should be able to do it. I don't agree with it, I wouldn't do it myself, but there's no rational reason that I can see to argue against it, although you have made it clear that there are lots of emotional ones. Jon

If you did that and set the ride height level, you would be 2" further thru the strut travel in the front. It would be a much better idea to section both, or not at all.

You've got several million years of precedent and I think instinct you're up against with this one... may not have been 100 yards or a scope, but you can bet there were 5 hairy little dudes out there in a hunting party several million years ago, now we have 5 taller less hairy dudes doing the same thing. Please explain why is it OK to go to the supermarket and get your dead animals but not to kill it yourself? What difference does it make if the food was killed for you or if you killed it yourself? How are you putting a different value on the life of food that was raised for slaughter? Or is it completely arbitrary, eg lions don't deserve to die because they're "majestic" but cows can go because they were bred to be killed? Jon

Wait a minute. If you haven't sectioned the struts yet, then why don't you just grind off the original bead that the spring perches sat on? Then you can section and put the new perch in the right place.

I think the 5" below the top of the strut is the guideline for 10" springs. Regardless, if you put the perches in the right spot you shouldn't have to compress the springs with any length. If you have 12" springs and you can set the adjuster all the way at the bottom and still can't get it on, I'd go with 8" springs, because if you went with 10" you'd still need to be most of the way down just to get everything together, and then you wouldn't be able to make much adjustment.

Hey, look at that! We agree on something!