She has been on jack stands for over two weeks, and I've only managed to spend a brief part of two different afternoons working on the clutch hydraulic system in that time period. The first day the new heavy duty master and clutch pedal install went great until I heard a pop at the very end of the bleeding process and subsequently lost all clutch pressure. The quick ship replacement master cylinder got to my post office in plenty of time for install last weekend, but USPS managed to screw up the delivery causing me to miss the opportunity :mad: Fast forward to 4th of July weekend and another master install (and clutch pedal reinstall), and I still couldn't get pressure bleeding. I had already bought a replacement slave cylinder for my Z1 CSC kit the previous week just in case (and cause only $60), but I had some questions because the new cylinder was different than my old one. Z1 was, of course, closed on the 4th when this came up, so I never got around to the install and bleeding process. But a shout out to Spencer at Z1 for answering all my questions on the replacement slave cylinder today in an extremely timely manner. I'm pretty sure with that knowledge I could have gotten the new slave installed and tried bleeding again in no time at all. But I just didn't want to have problems and then more delays. Time to just let the expert take care of it, which is probably what I should have done in the first place considering my schedule. Here's hoping Kevin will have it all sorted out in less than an hour worth of labor :)

The first difficulty was finding a tow company with a truck that could handle the Z without damaging it. Bullet Towing sent out a driver in a flatbed with a shark tail that worked perfectly. We attempted a rear hook first, as it was easiest to just roll the car backwards out of my garage. However, the exhaust can on the driver side appeared to be in the way of the chain before it was taut. The driver was extremely understanding and immediately asked if I preferred to tow from the front. I said yes, although I quickly realized the grill I have on the front bumper blocks access for the tow hook and just decided to remove the entire front bumper for the tow. Once again the driver was extremely accommodating as he had no problem waiting the 5-10 min it took me to remove the bumper. Thinking back, it sure would have been nice if there were a spot for the tow hook on the rear bumper through that opening just above the fog lamp.