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The girls are in there 30's and 40's now and are the best friends you can ever have. 17 grand kids so it really hasn't stopped. My shop is my oasis

I have actually accomplished that. It is not fun. Old stiff hoses near impossible to remove and don’t try to reuse them. Get new hoses first.

Yeah, the 240's a different in that regard. The 260 and newer all used a metal bulkhead feed through piece for the water to the core, but the 240 did not. They ran the rubber hoses right through the firewall.

Remember the vans with carpet on the dashes

Yeah, a lot of individual parts "say" just 31000 miles, but to me, it looks like someone spent a whole lot of time trying to achieve that. Like @inline6 above, I've got a whole host of "Yeah, but then why does this look like this?" situations all over the car. He hit some of them, but I've got others as well. Things like: Dented frame rails, control arms, and floors. Impossibly shiny clean yellow paint marks gratuitously applied on rusted hardware that has had the original plating stripped off. Many other hardware pieces where the original plating has been stripped off or painted over with silver paint. Adjustment witness marks on things that just should never have needed to be adjusted like the door latches. Smeared screw heads on things that should have never needed to come off a 31K mile car like the hood prop arm. I see a well kept Z wearing a well done, but many year old repaint. I see a beautiful Z that I would love to own, but I do not see a survivor.

Have you checked the pickup coil in the distributor? The ZX distributors like to break the magnet also, so check that. And the air gap. Otherwise, kind of seems like your ignition module is shorted out. The module grounds through the distributor body and that wire that gets warm would be part of that ground circuit. It will also ground through the distributor mounting points so the wire is not necessary. Set things up so that you can see spark from the center wire from the coil (take the wire out of the distributor cap and place it close to a ground point) and disconnect then reconnect the wire from the coil - post to the C terminal on the module. That should make and break the coil circuit if the module is shorted. If the module is shorted each connection will re-energize the coil, and each disconnection will cause a spark. Do this with the key on, of course. If you don't get a spark take the same wire from the coil negative and tap it to ground. That should create a spark from the coil's center wire. That will confirm that the coil is working correctly.

Ex Dodge Polara owner myself. Seats 12 comfortably.....

It's licensed in Nevada as WAY240. But there are no driving or engine running videos. Weird. And the guy with the top bid plans to just store it, apparently. I think this car is like one of those rare stamps or coins, with defects or strange histories. Only valuable because of its weirdness. Like a side-show attraction at a circus. Some of these guys seem to have marital problems also...

The slot also determines the position of the gear since the gear is off center from the hole it sits in. So if you pushed past the slot the gear could be too deep and on the wrong axis, too far or too close, if the slot is not where the bolt is. Found a cool cutout picture of a gear installed. Different brand, same concept. http://www.gtsparkplugs.com/SpeedoGearCalc.html

Awesome! Thanks for the help! I’ll get some of those pipe plugs pretty soon and get on that! And I will change the old heater hoses soon too. The car is not being driven yet so I have some time before those are a necessity, but they’re next on the list for sure.

All that stuff is stock 73 / 74 flat top gala. 73 was the first year for EGR and they ran coolant through the balance tube to cool the EGR gasses. And as for the other thing you highlighted... Yes, it's an air injection system to pump air directly into the exhaust stream to continue combustion. Not positive what year they started that, but it was present by 72. I'm guessing everything you've ever looked at closely already had headers and round tops?

One must be carefully polite on BaT so as not to violate the first rule of automotive admiration; "don't ever badmouth someone else's car". Of course, we do this all the time on this site, sometimes mounting to a shouting match, but this site is different. We are knowledge based and not bidding on cars. Consider the BaT conversation held in the sales lot with a bunch of people hanging around to watch the sale of a car. That picture isn't what I would consider happening on this site. We discuss cars with no real anticipation of someone profiting from our comments. I can't imaging posting a list like Inline6's on BaT even though I agree with most if not all of his items. Thanks for making that list! I see those service records, too, and want to comment about the amount of work performed on a 31,000 mile car. The poor thing has a bent frame rail and a bent control arm! 31,000 miles? On a Datsun? Showing that much 'service' damage?

You’re most welcome and to answer the question posted by [mention=23570]Siteunseen[/mention] that I forgot to answer, yes it just caps off the “spider/bug” hole created by the first cap that is inside the Y pipe already. Now that’s an interesting coolant setup! I had never seen it go in at the balance pipe end before. Normally it feeds the manifold from below. See my markup in yellow on your photo (and strictly no phallic jokes, that’s the other illicit thread) [emoji12]

It appears that many comments are vetted by admin and weeded out before publication, whilst certain 'known' characters get free reign and treat BaT like it is their own personal club. Some of the loudest voices on there clearly don't know their stuff. This 'MRM' character bumped up the bidding by 85k in one bid, then passed comment on it being a '200k car'. Is it only me that finds this kind of behaviour totally lacking in credibility? This is not the technique of a smart buyer, nor the action of an informed marque enthusiast. Apparently this same guy owns the 432 that just won an award at ZCON 2020, so it figures that he doesn't actually know what he's looking at. Seems like the ZCON judges don't either. These are all symptoms of a bubble that is inflating too quickly.

Yes. Way too fresh. Like someone put them there a few years ago when they learned they should be there. Like they took off the appropriately aged hardwares, blasted them shiny, put them back on, and then slathered on the yellow stripe to "look like it just came off the factory line". Problem is that when you blast the plating off hardware like that it rusts. Quickly. There are some spots on the car that look their age. And it is my belief that it if weren't for significant clean-up and repainting efforts, the rest of the car would look like that too. So are any of these questions being raised over at BAT? I didn't see anything. Maybe I'm the outlier and everyone else thinks the car is jaw dropping original.

dang good thing i didn’t do the red kote yet . i’m letting it dry out now. after that last acetone it does look just barely better. i think that sealant in there now isn’t gonna come out unless i take to a radiator shop but i’m gonna run with it way it is now. i blew through all the hose lines on the tank and could hear solid air throughout all of them.

Yeah, that yellow paint sure looks pretty fresh doesn't it.

I love this thing OTC Drilling Guide Systems 6982DGS it keys off an existing good hole on the same plane as the one you are working on. use is AFTER you figure out how to get the extractor out. Agree never had luck with extractors, maybe its the cheap ones I have used in the past. I also popped for an induction heater the heat bolts 1st. This all cost a lot of $$$ but the saving in aggravation is worth it. watch out for water pump bolts as well, same thing.

I thought this video was interesting.

We are such trusting souls here Well the 240 doesn't look too bad at all, very straight forward.👍

I'm fairly negative on this car and just don't see the comparative value with a few cars I have seen on BaT lately. The speedometer is my tip-off. I simply don't believe this car has 31,000 original miles. I'm guessing that the speedometer has been replaced or the odometer set back. Picture 110. Why would the face plate on the speedometer shift like that on a car with only 31,000 miles? And did you read about why the heater is blocked off? Because the previous owner didn't want excessive heat in the cabin? I smell a rat.

and you either have an exceptionally large bladder or you peed outside a lot!!!

5 daughters? You needed a small school bus for that basketball team.

Over here, THIS is the sofa on wheels.. And.. yep, this gem is mine.. Ps. the spot under it is water.. i've never seen a goldwing with oil under it! you'll need a italian or english bike for that ! 😁

Went racing this past weekend, been working on this front brace, trying to finish off some models for the strut mount.

Thanks for the great information. Since I live in TX and it does get very hot here I think I will go with the ceramic MSA. I do love the looks of the SS though. Below are some pics of the car. 75K documented miles and first owner had car until 2012. Original window sticker and all service documentation throughout history of car. Next is on to Ztherapy SU carbs. Called them and they are booked out until June.. Geez they must be busy. Couple pics of the car below.

@KONI Lee should know. I'd say it doesn't matter. Maybe he knows why the instructions show 50 mL of mystery fluid poured from a coffee pot.