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[akdsmer]

Found a free rear seat, tranny and door panels for my zuki. Rear seat came just in time as I was going to Los Anchorage to buy one this weekend. Don't worry Kyle, I'm still going to get the other stuff .

Started up BADZUK (LNS' old zuk) last night. Fired it up, 50 psi oil pressure, 6k idle rpm...corrected the rigged throttle and secondary linkages and now it idles fine. Lower radiator hose has a leak that can't be tightened away, so a new hose tonight and a trip down the block.

After fixing this rig, I have to say:

You can't use black tape to plug vacuum ports, but you should use it cover electrical wires.
1/4" of front driveshaft spline engagement isn't within factory specs.
A Bungie cord isn't an approved battery holddown...especially with a tip-over prone zuki.
Plugging turn signals into fuel injection harness is bound to give you driveability issues.
If your installing a new head, clean off ALL the gasket material on the manifolds, not just half of it.
Secondary linkage needs to be hooked up to work. Installing a return spring on the secondary linkage attachment point makes it hard to hook up the secondary linkage.
If your going to run a power wire unprotected under the floormat, through a floor drain and loosely wrapped around stuff to the fuel pump, put the fuse on the battery side, not next to the pump!
Shocks are softer than the spring mounting plates. A little trimming is a quick cure.

Funny stuff, but many of these items were a problem just waiting for a trail ride for it to fail on. My point would be this: How many of us have a few "little problems" that should be dealt with before the next trail ride? I'm going to do a impartial lookover of my rig and fix the "little things" before it becomes someone elses problem (like while on a trail).:allrighty: