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I travel the world for work, more days than I can think in hotel rooms, I'm thankful for this site to keep me in touch with the outside world I'm familiar with and all of the wonderful conversations and knowledge here. I know it may sound corny. But in the hotel looking out over the empty city out there on Christmas Eve, I'm pretty grateful. Oh, and Ebay.

I lived that life driving trains for a living . Spent holidays away from the family . Always glad to have a family to go home too. Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from Racer’s Z Farm!

Wishing you and all the site members a Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas everyone. I stay within 2 square miles of my house and am also very thankful for this forum and the nicest members to keep me company. Helps me stay in line too and that's a handful.

Cheers! Merry Christmas from my grandson Ben!

Merry Christmas to all!! A small stocking-stuffer from my bride of over 30 years. She knows me too well ☺️

Happy Christmas! Everyone loves Santa.....maybe not the grandson so much.

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Merry Christmas guys!

Not yet! We do have a New Year’s Day drive coming up, though. Info here: https://www.breakfastclubrally.com/drives/bcr01012021

Thanks for the mention @Zed Head I do have a couple of those but I think they have some small cracks, nothing like that though. Being it is a big box, you are shipping it dimensional weight anyhow. Attaching it to a piece of wood does not raise the shipping cost at all. That is the 2020 hind site factor. Anything shipped theses days usually comes with some basic insurance, $50 for USPS, and $100 with UPS etc., so the shipper should be able to start a claim and get some sort of refund for the damage. Also if paid for it with PayPal Goods and Services that has some insurance coverage as well. Most sellers will honor some deal for the damage. If you are just going to repair I think the method above would work, Glass in some thin wood strips on the back side, and the SEM spray and texture would cover up the crack seam. Always a bummer to get something damaged in shipping or worse yet have it lost in the mail. Good luck and happy holidays.

The 74 cigarette lighter is illuminated the same way. And same to you all and hoping to see you all again at a future ZCON!!

I had one more thought about this appropriations bill thing and then I'm gonna go back to working on cars... I was wondering about the one side "using Covid as blackmail" thing to get stuff put into the bill other side didn't want. I found a copy of last years Consolidated Appropriations Act 2020. Last years version of the same big appropriations bill. Well guess what... That stuff did NOT get stuck in there with Covid. In fact, that other stuff was already IN there. The Covid relief stuff is new, but the rest of that stuff? Already there. Some of the numbers changed a little (presumably for inflation?), but the same language for the same things was already there. I found the first four items and stopped. I'm assuming the rest of them are all in there as well. So what's the point? The point is... It's the example of twisted misleading "semi-facts" that are being used to tell you what your opinion is. It sounds plausible or it wouldn't work. And it sounds like something terrible that one side forced on the other using Covid relief as blackmail, but in fact it was in there already. And it was approved before. The people who are complaining about these items now... They approved it last year, right? And they didn't flag it as a problem last year, right? And they've had a year to finish reading last years details, right? I didn't dig back further than last year, but I suspect much of that stuff goes back a number of years. Here's what I'm talking about: Makes me wonder why are they making such a stink about all of a sudden? Wasn't it just as much of a problem last year? Did they just get around to doing their job and reading it this year? Did someone suggest they could blame the other side for blackmail and nobody would actually read any of it and figure out that it's not true? Did someone above them tell them their opinion and now they're telling you yours? OK... I think I'm talked out. I think I'm gonna go machine something.

Same to you, Philip. Here's hoping to meet again at a future ZCON.

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.

Maybe the weep hole in the water pump?

That's a mop head, girls bike. I'd take it in a heartbeat!

Forgot about these guys.

Just a hint if you plan to use AFM, RPM and TPS don't go with the LM-2. It works perfectly fine with AFM and RPM but when you add TPS it's unstable. The LM-2 frezes and you have to restart it every few minutes, sometimes it is stable. Its quite random (I'm not the only one with this problem). The LM-1 works perfectly fine but not the LM-2.

Good. I liked that one. If I were buying, that's the kind of car I would be looking for. Unrestored, but unmolested. Used, but not abused. I didn't read any of the chatter on BAT, but the pics looked like they weren't trying to hide anything. No pretense, just an honest, well loved used Z with all the warts you would see on a normal Z car. I'd rather fix them myself than pay for someone else's work already done. Although, if the price for that kind of car is now up to 27.5K, I'm not sure I have the $$ to be in the market.

I was just going to say the same 🙂 Merry Christmas Steve and Chris!

I was doing some cleaning of the dash switches today and stumbled upon fiber optics, from the 70's. I had no idea. These are the headlight and wiper/washer switches, the aluminum cylinder is the light box, I only noticed it because the knobs were off and the headlights were on. It would have to be the darkest night to see those knobs illuminated so maybe I'll pop a bright LED in there and wake them up.

What now, did they detect oil in the Sahara?

@siteunseen had success with one of the ABS pipe adhesives I think. He repaired his console, which is the same material. Maybe get a discount from the seller and try to fix it, if you can't get a refund. @Terrapin Z probably has that part and knows how to package/ship it.

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.

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.

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.

Did you get the arch panel from KF? O dont see where they offer that part anymore.