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It's always time for one of my favorite Christmas numbers!!! 12 glorious minutes, multiple versions, including even Muppets! Watch it all and you'll feel more cheerful!

!! Well if those are the my two choices, I'm much better at lurking in the background and saying bunches of words that in the end really mean nothing at all. I can say lots of stuff without ever being able to be pinned down on any of it. Kinda like Teflon. I can also interpret and defend pretty much anything. Your Highness is like a stream of bat wizz.

I found a great thread buried in the archives. It’s title is “Wiring Path for Electric Fuel Pump”. I also copied the graphic from the thread identifying the relays on the kick panel. It may help the next guy find it without help. Appreciate the fine advice from Steve. I need to spend some time rummaging in the archives! regards, Bob t

And now it is Christmas Eve. Merry Xmess everyone.

I would suck because I can’t lie so easily and then shake your hand. I’ll stick to what I’m good at for now. Merry Christmas to you all. I got work to do!!! Kids happiness at stake! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sounds like you would make a great politician.

Interior of the shell was painted tonight. Next we’ll go back and mask off the areas that need to be blacked out, and begin the reassembly process.

Whelp, it's that time of year when I post my traditional song.

Thanks for your comments! I ´m not sure I´ll be able to get a refund (the guy will surely blame the shipping service and viceversa) but since I was thinking about buying more stuff from him I might ask for a future discount as Zed Head suggested. I ´ll experiment a little and if I can salvage it I´ll report back to share the method with the best results, maybe it´ll will help others. Like I said I don´t need it to be perfect since I´m more concerned about findding a good speaker solution and that back trim will probably be aout of sight. In the menantime, Merry Christmas to all! please take care.

What now, did they detect oil in the Sahara?

I shipped one of those once. I felt compelled to attach it (tape, screws, packing material support etc) to a thin sheet of plywood to ensure it arrived in one piece. Anything less and you are about guaranteed to have a “problem”. The repo pieces are nice and thick. ABS cement and fibreglass matt will work wonders. Then fill the crack(s), re-texture, SEM black, repeat until happy. Or get a new one.

You've not eaten peanuts while drinking beer? I'll let you in on another little secret, hot wings and beer. Enough beer and I'd start in on a 2x4. Back to music, sorry for the off ramp.

Clean garage!!! What the heck is that???

I purchased a garage door high lift kit from DDM Garage Doors. https://ddmgaragedoors.com/diy-instructions/garage-door-high-lift-conversion.php The installation wasn't too rough although if you've never had to install or adjust torsion springs before, it could get a little unnerving. You also will have to buy a jack shaft, wall mount opener or just learn to raise and lower the door by hand which is what I do. I had also looked into two post lifts but they have some issues like being a permanent installation by having to be bolted to the floor, requiring a thicker concrete floor than normally found in residential garages, and I feel safer with the car supported for long term storage by four posts, each with it's own lock. BTW: All the photographs appear to show clean garages and at least two really cool cars. I'm jealous.

Could somebody photoshop (is that still a thing?) some silverish wheels on this car? Just seems like it needs it. Very bright, and yet still dark, 72 for sale. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1972-datsun-240z-157/

Thank you for taking the time to wrap up the thread, and welcome to ClassicZCars.

I did not want to highjack this thread, so I sent you some pics via direct message. cheers

Merry blue Christmas. Kind of sucks this year.

You heard of El Chapo from the South? I am El-Cheapo from the North 🙂 I just used copper pipe. (Not good as the solder melts in the heat 😞 ) Here is a bad drawing. The longer 1/2" pipe is open on the left and the exhaust gas enters there. It goes though 4 90 degree elbows (hard to draw) to turn the gas 180 degrees and also to allow the two long pipes to squeeze together. The gas then enters the T, travels up the 2nd 1/2" pipe (capped) and scavenging pulls the exhaust out through a hole in the side. The T has a thick copper adapter inside. I could thread this with a tap. The O2 sensor goes in. I believe I used a spark plug thread cleaner as the tap as it was the same thread. If I were to do it again, I'd make it out of aluminum and thread the pipe joints. The U turn/ sensor mount would be a drilled block. I'd also dill a hole where you could safety-wire it to the hatch mechanism.

I agree with that 100%. Those news anchors are acting harder than movie stars. I like reading myself, too.

But seriously though, the way the large bills like that are done is a problem. Lots of pages, not enough time to dig down into the details, and people sticking things they want into it and saying "well if you want this other stuff, then you'll have to agree to this stuff too." It's an antique problem. For example... The stuff on the previous page that people are complaining about now has been around for a long time. I didn't read the whole thing, but it looks like most of it al stems from the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. So it sounds to me like the people complaining about this stuff (now all of a sudden) have had about fifty years to read it and do something about it. They cherry pick plausible sounding sections and twist them to support their opinion and then tell you that you should agree with them. It has to be plausible sounding or it wouldn't work. It has to be close enough to the truth to sound good or it wouldn't work. But it's all twisted misleading facts. Alternate facts. Propaganda. Both sides do it. So I don't know what the answer is, but the first thing to do is to stop being told what your opinion is. Shut the sound on the TV off. I give more credence in what they're willing to put into print than what comes out of their mouths. There's still slant to one side or another there, but not as much as the words they speak. If they're confident enough in what they want to tell me, they'll write it down. And most important of all? Stop getting your opinion from people on twitter or facebook or websites.

You have highlighted what I believe is the biggest part of the problem right now... The twisted, misleading misinterpretation of info fed to you by the people whispering sweet nothings in your ear in your own corner. They tell you what to believe, and how you should react to it. Did you actually read any of the bill? Did you actually read ANY of it, or are you simply accepting the summary of the people in the media (radio/TV/web ) and accepting their interpretation hook, line, and sinker? Why do I ask such a thing? Because the whole bill.... "This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021’’ " is a far reaching budget bill that is mostly not about Covid at all. It's about a whole bunch of other stuff that was being voted on regardless of Covid. There are only two sections that pertain to Covid, and guess what... All of those page numbers you referenced above??? None of them are in the Covid relief sections at all. So all those people saying "Look at all the pork stuck in the Covid bill!!" Clearly haven't read it either. First of all, because it's not "the Covid bill", it's the "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021’’ , and second, All the parts someone told you that you shouldn't like aren't even in the Covid portion of the bill. What we need is more independent educated thought instead of having our opinions fed to us.

At the age of fourteen I worked for a beekeeper one summer. Interesting job. Cutting the limbs out of trees containing swarms of bees, putting as much of the swarm in a burlap bag as we could, then pile three people and the swarm of honey bees into a VW Beetle. The beekeeper had little to no reaction to stings. As the summer wore on, my reaction to stings became worse. The last time I got stung, one had crawled up my pant-leg so I reached down and crushed it from the outside, ignoring the stinger that was still pumping venom into my leg. The end result was the calf of my leg swelled to the point that I had to split the calf inseam on my Levis to get them on. I'm still fascinated with bees and much of our yearly garden is focused on drawing bees.

A 2 post lift has to be bolted to the floor, a 4 post does not. I have radiant heat coils in the floor, don't want to risk puncturing one.

When I was mowing apartment complexes I got hit quite often by the ones that live in the ground. Yellow jackets I believe? I've thrown weedeaters, blowers and jumped off mowers running and screaming. The Tennant's got a kick out of me, no extra charge. Awe the good old days. Thank goodness I made a few good decisions in my life.

Here are some good wasp and hornet videos. This guy is kind of odd, he seems to be working for his chickens. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb-mXwDehQf0pEgS0rlGJ9w

There's a nature show out there somewhere, I saw it years ago, about a guy in Japan who was a Murder Hornet tracker. He would catch one and tie a thread around it with a small piece of white paper attached. Then he'd chase after it to find the nest. It was a pretty good show I'm surprised that none of the networks have dug it out yet. Apparently the big concern is that they can wipe out a honey bee hive in about 20 minutes. They just crawl in and start biting the heads off of them. And, side-note, honeybees are actually not indigenous to North America. They were imported from Europe. Now, back to our normal programming...

$15,000 for the bumperless 77, with a free shoe. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1977-datsun-280z-48/

Another small restoration project, cleaning up the original air cleaner. During the dustless blasting process we had both pieces of the air clean blasted, coated with a DTM, and then finished in the correct shade of orange. In my stash of parts was a set of NOS air cleaner gaskets. Once the correct stickers arrive this assembly will be ready for install.

Engine came back from the machine shop ready for reassembly. Short block was torn down, cleaned, inspected, and rebuilt with new bearings, pistons, rings and seals. Head was also torn down and thoroughly cleaned, and checked for any damage. After that, a valve job and decking the surfaces was done to complete the machine work. Engine and head came back separate so I could paint the block in the correct shade of blue and reassemble it at my own pace. The long block was completed with a new timing set and an OEM set of head bolts and washers.

Still waiting 😞

I'm allergic to bee stings. And I have been stung a lot. Ones and twos here and there, and a couple of times when I was stung hundreds of times at once. When I was young it was no big deal, and little or no reaction. But in my early 20's I knocked over a beehive with a tractor. I tried driving the tractor away before shutting it down and dismounting, but that proved to be a bad move, as tractors don't move very fast, so I shut it down and bailed, heading for a water hose. Got the bees away from me by hosing off, then went into the house. I started to go into shock, and the swelling started. I called the doctor, they said call an ambulance. I hopped in the car and drove to their office, as it was only a few blocks away. They gave me a shot of something, and put me in an exam room. A nurse plucked hundreds of stingers from my scalp, neck, ears and arms, then left me alone. After a bit they came in, took my vitals, and gave me a shot of something else. About an hour later the doctor came in, examined me, asked how I was, and if I knew I was allergic to bee venom. I related my life's experiences and he prescribed an epi-pen, telling me that I will always need to have a fresh one nearby, if I ever get stung again I would need to use it immediately. He also said I should have called the ambulance, that treatment been delayed much longer he would not have been talking to me then. He then asked the nurse to give me another injection, and said goodbye. So I got an epi-pen, and replace it every two years. I've been stung by yellow-jackets a couple of times recently, but didn't have the extreme reaction I did with the honeybees. Yellow-jackets don't loose their stinger, and can sting repeatedly. Each time it has only been one individual doing the stinging, and each time I had several stings. I promptly took benadryl, and the swelling and reaction was fairly mild, so I didn't feel the need to use the epi-pen, or see a doctor.