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Today marks 49 years of togetherness for the Z and me. A daily driver for 11 years, stored for another 17 years, disassembled and stored in pieces for 10 years, restored over a 2 1/2 year period, and now enjoying its second life for the last 9 years. Pic #2 was taken just before disassembly.

I have a thread here somewhere where I made the lenses and an extended version for the longer LED. Took me a threw attempts to get the colour density right. Luckely the plating on my inspection lights were in good condition and I only needed the lenses. And to think, these were still availble through Nissan for $120 new in the box until about 4 years ago. Who would have thought we would be where we are now.

I'll eat some of this and drive my Z if my belly fits under the wheel.

You should see Jim's bathrooms!

Two to make one and some fixes 1. Best lens but with rotted hardware in place. 2. Broken donor with best reflector. 3. Repair to best lens: Forget the hole and thread, epoxy a 3mm screw and secure with a nut and washer on the outside. 4.Best backing with donor reflector ready to go in. 5. Reflector replaced Finished:

I did the "Cheap-arse" aluminium tape method to restore my set too. It turned out ok, but no where near the quality of what @jfa.series1 is doing. It takes a lot of time and dedication Some photos of my humble atempt to restore my TS lenses. I also fabricated new brackets to replace the missing ones and welded the set screws in place. Repaired and polished the lenses.

Here's a paint-stripped oil pan from my 4/70 production-dated L24, showing the pressed ribs, drain plug and brazed-on reinforcement/harmonic panel:

Cheap-arse alternate----I've successfully used that aluminum air conditioning foil duct tape to cover the reflector. It has adhesive on the back, can be applied as an overlarge strip to the reflector and the excess trimmed with an x-acto knife. Polished with metal polishing compound it has pretty darn good reflectivity, especially if you spray paint the housings white before assembly.

I'll post a separate story of the "hoard" and how it came to be.

Apology accepted. ? Made this series of videos about 8-9 years ago. Some day I'll finish them.?

This is kind of genius.

Duffy, I took your advice and added a lot more air pressure, as you said, air pressure is everything, blasting now at 120psi. Also got rid of the circulation pump and put my old pool pump into service, works great. I will never sell your design?

They will regret selling that cabinet. It’s a giant pile of trash.

Love this...

Making progress on the rack. Finished painting it and put the new dust covers on. Of course after I finished painting I scratched it in the middle. Quick fix though.

Screw that!

Thanks to @EuroDat @Zup @240260280 for the pics and tips on cleaning up the TS lights.

We stay at the Miramar Intercontinental along the waterfront., no cabs...we roll in company provided private transportation services. When I left about 10 days ago they only had 9% occupancy at the hotel I bet it is close to 0% now. My question is what do they do with you if you test positive? I brought a tub of Clorox wipes. I’ll spend the first 20 mins sanitizing the entire room and lock myself up for 28 hrs. I need hazardous duty pay! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good luck! Staying in the hotel will be safest bet in Panama. BTW this is a nice place to stay when there: The Westin Playa Bonita Panama. It is far enough from the city. Careful with cabs... they kidnap. Rental car is best.

These pictures are a little dark but this is the pan from HLS30-00026. HLS30-00027 has the same.

Get the lenses and many other high quality reproduction parts here: https://www.240zrubberparts.com/

No meaningful updates on the inspection lights topic, the bodies went off to plating a couple of weeks ago and I don't know if the business has been shut down by the virus situation. New lenses are on order from Steve Nix, all the switches have been cleaned and serviced. Today it was back into the attic to get a couple more boxes of the parts hoard down for work. The first box had a set of taillights that look to be in pretty good shape and four license plate lights. The license lights have been completely disassembled for cleaning, plating, painting, ...etc. With any luck I'll be able to realize three complete refurbed units from the parts. No work yet on the taillights. The next box was an assortment of turn signal lights - the verdict is still out on the quality of the contents. I did try to break down one of the assemblies and was faced with the typical rusted tiny screws along the bottom edge. You know... the ones that either wallow out the Phillips head or just snap off. Still, there are some promising looking parts in the box and likely a few sets of complete TS assemblies.

This is from a 77' which should be the same. Just match tab on the tank with the notch on the sender.

I dedicate this to every low-life, loser, narcissistic , megalomaniacal leader on the planet, the the weak, feeble, twit leading Canada:

So grandad, what did you do while the COVID Virus was spreading around the world? Well my boy, I did my bit and two bucket washed the Z and gave it a quick polish.

Right. Her - "Hey, honey... The zombie apocalypse is coming. What should we do?" Me - "Well I don't know what you're gonna do, but I'm gonna stay home and work on my Z."

I'm looking forward to the prospect of individual judges being 'invited' to show their certificates to prove they have taken the Ishihara Test for Colour Definciency... ?

This is more just bizarreness. Just read it. It's "real". In case it gets deleted. Looks like he's already modified it to sound more sane.