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Hello from Texas. . . I have always really liked Z's and had friends and family who had a few and was always impressed by them now have ended up with one myself. I built a few cars 69 z28, Firebirds more recently doing the c10 truck thing and coming to the end of a project happened upon this one, I think is a real gem. Sooo . . . What I have is a 1971 240Z with a fairly interesting story to me anyways So here we go . . . Was looking for parts and met up with a guy with a few cars and was told were “stored in the barn and not really touched since the 80's”. In this part of the world can be good or bad, usually bad . . . rust, So I went to check them out ended up buying a car. Story goes: He owned a body shop and bought this car from the original owner in 1980 with about 25k miles and drove it a little bit and decided to repaint it from horrible orange to black his words and half way through ended up losing interest. Eventually sold his shop in the late 80’s and all his cars to his home shop the barn. Where the car sat under a cover until I bought it this year. I now have a 1971’ 240 with somewhere around 34K on it which is almost unbelievable to me except that I can verify it. The PO’s were very methodical in keeping repair logs with their mileages, costs etc. filling out the owner’s maintenance book with the little tear out sheets for every 2-3k miles up to its current mileage and a cost owner ship book. It’s a really great car that has the least amount of rust of any old car I have ever worked on almost 99.999% rust free and perfectly straight. The Bad /Challenge: The motor was pulled and the bay was painted behind the fenders etc. then mostly reassembled but left the glass removed and primed ready to spray and was abandoned for like 20 years or so but they did a really good job so it seems to have really saved it from the rust. They had drained all the fluids during the motor removal and even pulled the tank . . . good right. until you try and bring it all back from the dead. That’s where I am at now going through all the systems and putting it together to make it run and stop. A big Japanese jigsaw puzzle of boxes full of parts. As soon as I can get it reliably moving and stopping under its own power it’s in the paint booth. Thanks for looking and yes I will Follow up with the Pictures . . . .

Actually, I'd like to find the car I was looking for when I bought my 240Z, a 1969 510 2 door stick. This was my first new car and it did every thing I asked of it. One time caught in a traffic bind entering an interstate, I wound it up to 75mph in second. When I did get a chance to shift, I went straight into 4th and ended up doing 90 before RPMs stabilized. Keith Martin would say it's not that valuable cuz they make scads of them, but boy, decent original cars are scarce.

I've actually used this site's forums for a while for information, and recently I purchased a 73' 240z. So I finally made the decision to join because of the vast wealth on knowledge, and with an account I can actually tap into it. My Z is currently suspended on a lift, and unfortunately I believe that she may be there for quite a bit longer while I finish all of the restoration work and engine rebuild. This is actually my second 240z, and there's a long story behind the first, that I may get to sharing but its to long a story for now. I'm excited to be here and continue on my s30 project, and hopefully it will be completed by the end of summer or beginning of fall. I will be taking photos of the car, and they may find their way onto this site at one point.

Some progress! I did wind up making a puller using an old main cap and some head bolts. Nothing fancy but it worked. I studied the "how to.." book and read some posts and redid the rear main seal. Thanks Jeff(dizeased) for all your helpful hints. I realize that previous installs were not quite right , so maybe thats why I was always fighting rear main leak. One thing that didn't done right before was getting the stakes all the way down. I made sure that happened this time. My head should be done today, so this last week i have been prepping for it. I realized that I wasn't as organized as I thought. I started going thru all my hardware and next thing I know its 8 hours later . I want the head install to go smoothly and not stopped every hour to find a particular bolt. I now have all accounted for and cleaned. I have my loctite standing by and my torque wrench. Everything is assembled as far as I can go with many bolts just screwed in place until final assembly. I am running out of time. The intake valves came from Courtesy. MSA also had them but almost 50% more expensive. But 14$ a valve for Nissan is still not bad. I will say MSA got some valves to me in 2 days to Indiana! MSA didn't even realize they had the valves until I called. The guy went to the warehouse to check since the web site said they were out. They infact had 25 valves on hand. Strange to run a business that way. The machinist is supposedly fitting the intakes and should have lash pad numbers for me to order-ASAP. I will at least get the head back to start assembly-I hope. I assembled my Mikuni's and mounted them on my spare L28 motor. I plan to assemble the motor as complete as possible and then drop it in. I think I'm going to set the trans in place on a trans jack and just drop the motor by itself. I would really like to mount everything on this motor without leaning over a fender, that's the plan-subject to change

Sounds like your aftermarket pump is shot.