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Or we may find that driving is not even an issue, and oil will pile up. I have not commuted to work in the past 12 years, I suspect with the sudden realization that a LOT of the work force does not need to commute there will be even less driving. With VR substituting for family vacations, with amazon delivering your groceries, with doctors seeing patients remotely, with robots taking over all forms of jobs (hastened by the min wage being deemed a 'living wage", there was a robot doing my 1st job, a porter, at a store the other day) so less people will be needed, next up will be taxi and pilots by machines, eventually we become bags of protoplasm sitting in a matrix. In the early seventies this was all the rage (save the earth, running out of oil, global freezing, opec oil crisis) all the young folks were yelling at the old folks telling them they were messing up the world (remember the crying American Indian in the canoe), so this is nothing new, but I have come to realize (with age) that you cant predict what will be the next real problem. I grew up with constant warnings about dui, well I think distracted driving is a bigger problem, also about kids wasting too much time with TV shows, now its video games. Good luck the figuring out what the next gen issues will be for beleaguered parents to deal with. Good luck deciding where resources taken from tax payers by force should be used. Or just live your life as well as possible without taking from or hurting the other guy. Be conservative with all resources, as you will prob get it wrong trying to guess the future.

Can’t believe anyone could support a leader/boss that doesn’t attend any meeting about the most critical aspect of his job , but tweets orders from the gulf course . It’s freaking mind boggling

Ah, nostalgia... p.s. look at that little kid about to get enveloped in carcinogenic smoke. Thanks Dad, that was neat... I grew up in a smoking family with pre-converter cars in the driveway. Everybody smoked, it was a deep lung hack-fest every morning when the relatives got together for the holidays. Now, I can smell a cigarette from a block away and a pre-cat car from a mile behind. It's incredible how we don't realize how bad things are until they're gone.

He can't control Covid 19, nor can he throw it under a bus. The only other option in his playbook is ignore it and hope It will go away like a miracle.

I, too, see my Zed as a time machine. When I drive it I listen to cassette tapes I made when I had my first Zed in 1974. At 75 I won't see the end of gasoline powered cars so no worries there. I love my '17 Subaru Outback for its modernity, but the Zed makes me smile more. All my kids and, so far, all my grands learned to drive stick shift. I think it makes them better drivers. I'm loving this thread. It is a great discussion in these troubled times. Cheers, Mike

He isn’t a leader. He is a loser.

At least all that I see in that picture are wearing masks. They must not be paying attention to their fearless leader Trump. 🤪

My kids, 15,19, 21, all girls, had to progress is their driving "privilege" of driving. The 15 year old is the last one going through this process. They all started on a 1956 Beetle, then 1965 C20 Pickup 4 on the floor, then at the time 82 280ZX. Then it turned out the 20 yr old when she was 17 was what the insurance companies call a 'risk', so she drove the 280zx full time with collector car insurance for $220/yr. She scoffed at first, but riding the bus to school was worse, then she became very popular when she drove the red Datsun to school, and this was jut 3 years ago, she then became very fond of the 280zx. So there are at least 3 younger types out there who actually like older classic cars. I did all this so they wouldnt be texting and driving and doing nothing but driving until they got their everyday car, it was just for learning "how to drive".

My take on taxing fuel in my country is as simple as higher prices on everything that has to be transported. After Katrina diesel fuel prices went crazy. Then the trickle down began to cause consumer prices to rise on everyday needs. We vote with our wallets over here and there's way more empty ones than full.

I dunno, Harlee is fine looking old blister. At my age I wouldn't turn her away.

Was that on 91 pump gas? I'm long overdue for another dyno session. I tuned mine with Weber jets but have since installed Keith's.

Maybe you've discovered a built-in remote starter switch. Who wants to explore this further?

Here is standard practice. If you do this without disconnecting the plug you might be backfeeding the ignition switch or some odd thing. Maybe you had the key On whereas before the key was off.

Describe this "jumping" procedure. I don't think that that's standard practice. Sounds like you're causing a dead short across a plug that expects a load.

don't understand what you are saying. Jumping the cold start vale terminal? the engine is turning over? you mean something your are doing is causing the starter to engage? It maybe possible to energize the starter solenoid by applying power to the positive side of the harness that plugs into the CSV I suppose, IIRC they share a common lug on the ign switch "start". But if that is what you are doing that is the incorrect way to activate the CSV to depressurize, You only want to apply power to the csv, not the harness, and frankly you don't need to do that, just put a rag around the fuel line at the fuel rail and loosen the hose clamp. there is not that much fuel stored, the rag will catch it and keep it from spraying.

Julia Chatterley gets my congratulations. Whoa momma! she's hot. Remember Young lady chatterley? Newer version... My first memory...

Congratulations.

drove the brand new 260z to the high school prom. Was on the road yesterday on the radio was disco, yikes... but it did take me back! the new car next to me had some kind of thumping noise, think it was music, but I don't think the car will be around for long, sounded like it was rattling apart at the stop light. My old radio has maybe 5 watts max, that and disco not likely to damage spot welds.

Fortunately I just rebuilt the whole motor, so it came out super easily. My new plug is stainless, so hopefully I can get it back out again when I decide to finally out the heater back in the loop.

I hope you have better luck than I did getting that elbow out of the head. Mine wouldn't budge! Damn near warped the head before I gave up. I didn't use heat though because of the rubber valve seals nearby.

Actually, I think leaving the coil wire off caused a flood condition. Because I kept smelling the gas, I thought I still had fuel. I'm not sure whether or not I had a bad ignition module, but I did find the erratic spark while troubleshooting. The stator in the replacement distributor was in better shape than the one I had in the car. After seeing the strong spark with the replacement distributor, I started wondering if I had a fuel problem. That is when I found out about the "flood code" generated from the TPS signal. I also wanted to verify injector function, but I didn't have a noid light handy. I should have that by Wednesday. I cleared the "flood code" by unplugging the TPS with the key in ON. I also have a new battery on order for the Windows 7 notebook computer so I can have WinALDL software handy for the next round of troubleshooting. It's not fun to run diagnostics when you don't have the right tools on hand.

here is a prediction for you, I hear a lot about setting up an electric infrastructure for electric cars, I suspect a much bigger problem will be an infrastructure for the internet.

It works well as long as I don't do something stupid like leave the coil wire off the distributor. The up-side is that I found some good diagnostic info on the GM TBI system to help me if I have problems in the future.

The head of the USA COVID-19 task force watches millions of dollars shoot in to space. I can't even think of a snarky comment to add here...

Thanks! I’m happy with them! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think that the thermostat issue was in reference to the carburetor heating line, the one that runs to/from the thermostat housing. We had a whole discussion about that a short while ago.

That's the typical way to do it. As you said when the heater valve is closed those ports are blocked. The thread size in the head is the same as the thread size of the block drain plug, under the manifolds. That tells you very little unless you have a spare block.

Ding! Your life will change after high school. Ding! Your life will change after high school. I should've called my mom Betty!

The topic of this thread occasionally popped in my head the past few days, and while driving the z, I came to a realization: We're quite possibly the last generation(s) to have access to and appreciation of the older generations' ways of life. Maybe I could have said that better, but let me explain. This realization came when thinking about the z, but applies to a whole lot more. While owning the 240, I've had a lot of people from older generations come up and say something to the effect of, "Oh, I remember the z, that was my first car," or "One of my buddies had one, boy was it fast." Point is, the history books will tell of the various epochs of the older generations (the music, social change, technological advancements, and so on), but we're the last ones to hear, first hand, what they have to say about their time. The principle applies ideologically as well - a lot of us have parents or grandparents from the old days, and so we were raised with the sentimentalities of their times to varying degrees. These values will fade into the vague representations of history with them. Just as we hardly know anything tangible, mundane about how people lived and thought in 1900, so too will our children seldom know anything about the way people were in the 70's. All our children, worse yet grandchildren, will know is from books and how their schooling represents the old times, which is hardly the truth. History makes the unclear reality of human existence appear black and white. I've gone on long enough and probably bowdlerized the meaning of all this. Much like music, driving the 240 is a time capsule for me, where I can imagine I'm back in the 70's or 80's. We're close enough for the 70's to still feel real, but the same can not be said for the generations to come. When electric cars become commonplace, people who never drove a petrol engined car won't know the enjoyment of sitting in it as it shakes while idling and howls at high rpm's. This appeared to me like allegory for the everyday lives of people from the past. We're quite possibly the last generation(s) to have access to and appreciation of the older generations' ways of life.

Two super-spreaders that I am surprised continue to operate herein Ontario under current circumstances: wedding banquet halls and gyms.

Hey everyone just wanted to give a quick update. I decided to stick with the wheels I had and lowered it and did a 240z bumper mod. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's my take. Half the Americans see it us aginst them but we're all this together. Like it or not. So Biden got the white house.

"It's been a long time coming but I know a change is gonna come" Whether you like it or not.

Well, it has happened again. For the third time since mid August, Racer has been sent home on quarantine due to contact tracing. This time it was the brother in law of a coworker testing positive, and the coworker and I have been working very closely for the last 8 weeks. Oh well, two weeks at home should be OK, after all, I have Datsuns to work on, eh?

I Have pulled the filter hose with a rag as my main method, I'm trying to go by the book this time. Lol My worry is if there's a short or a bad relay ( stuck open/closed) that's turning the engine that that could be a problem in the near future. I'm no good with wiring and relays and was hoping someone had a similar issue with a remedy.

That is a brilliant perspective! Love it. I had similar thoughts driving the other evening and thinking that along the same lines of in a couple of generations, people will want modified classics over original. For the reason that they’ve known the cars through the PlayStation and may find the stock experience rather dull in comparison.