diff --git a/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/cloud/SolrZkClient.java b/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/cloud/SolrZkClient.java
index f765542403f..a2873e0c9c4 100644
--- a/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/cloud/SolrZkClient.java
+++ b/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/cloud/SolrZkClient.java
@@ -22,9 +22,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-import java.net.URLDecoder;
 import java.util.List;
-import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
 
 import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
@@ -85,6 +83,10 @@ public class SolrZkClient {
     this(zkServerAddress, zkClientTimeout, new DefaultConnectionStrategy(), null);
   }
   
+  public SolrZkClient(String zkServerAddress, int zkClientTimeout, int zkClientConnectTimeout) {
+    this(zkServerAddress, zkClientTimeout, zkClientConnectTimeout, new DefaultConnectionStrategy(), null);
+  }
+  
   public SolrZkClient(String zkServerAddress, int zkClientTimeout, int zkClientConnectTimeout, OnReconnect onReonnect) {
     this(zkServerAddress, zkClientTimeout, zkClientConnectTimeout, new DefaultConnectionStrategy(), onReonnect);
   }
diff --git a/solr/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/AbstractZkTestCase.java b/solr/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/AbstractZkTestCase.java
index 41427ab31a2..ec3625ab3d0 100644
--- a/solr/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/AbstractZkTestCase.java
+++ b/solr/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/AbstractZkTestCase.java
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractZkTestCase extends SolrTestCaseJ4 {
   // static to share with distrib test
   public static void buildZooKeeper(String zkHost, String zkAddress, File solrhome, String config,
       String schema) throws Exception {
-    SolrZkClient zkClient = new SolrZkClient(zkHost, AbstractZkTestCase.TIMEOUT);
+    SolrZkClient zkClient = new SolrZkClient(zkHost, AbstractZkTestCase.TIMEOUT, 45000, null);
     zkClient.makePath("/solr", false, true);
     zkClient.close();