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Nothing as exotic as most of the entries in this thread but here is a little paint accessory I made this week to help in refinishing my steering wheel. It is the top of a 2 liter bottle with a nice fat bolt installed in the cap. It served as a stand for painting the spokes and hub and then it provided a spinner base to rotate the wheel evenly while spraying the spar urethane.

Just did the wire around my cracked horn button. It was a little more trouble than I thought but it's tight and "clicked" in place. It won't fall off again no matter the pot hole. Thank you for showing me that everytime I brought it up. It only took 5 years @jfa.series1.

2 hours, 80 miles and about half a tank later I'm officially a member of the "my back can't take it" club. Car was flawless.

I've gone a week with no alcohol, beer for me. I quit vodka about 9am New Year's morning 2006. Girls and drugs all over the place and I wanted to go to sleep, alone. Anyhow this past week I've gotten so much stuff done I may try this a little longer. It is football season and I'm an Alabama guy so maybe Saturday's only? Thank you both for ringing my bell.

This is how mine turned out. Not sure if satin clear would look better than the gloss clear. I painted the spokes same as the tail light panel. I like it and can always go back to black anytime.

It has 3 into 1 headers on it so I’m guessing all the emission stuff got removed when the headers were installed. As far as rust goes I haven’t had it on a lift yet for a good inspection. The battery area appears rust free so I’m taking that as good indication the car isn’t a rot box.

👏 Applause ! You guys are good.. next time make more pics BEFORE and DURING taking the car apart.. 🙂

1 and 10 are for the glovebox. 1 is part of the latch mechanism, and 10 is the light for inside when you open the door. 2 is (I believe) the brackets the hold up the center of the dash. One end screws to the trans tunnel and the other end screws to the underside of the dash. 3 is the radio support bracket. Not sure about 4 and 5. 6 is a bracket that holds the center dash panel (with the two HVAC outlets and your FUEL light) in place. There should be a second one that is a mirror image. 7 is a bracket for your coil wire. 9 is one of the vacuum lines that run to your power brake booster. 11 is your roof mounted dome light. Missing the white lens. it's probably turned to dust. Not sure about 12. Obviously a vacuum hose, but not sure which one offhand. 13 is one of the clips that holds your shifter boot in place on the underside of the console. Not sure about 14 and 15 Not positive on 16, but I think it's a window roller. Should be inside one of the doors maybe? 18 is your FICD. Fast Idle Control Device. It pulls the throttle open a little bit when you turn on the A/C

Finally got a taste of fall weather and got the old girl out of the house/garage. Didn't want to leave, breaks were stuck but more rpm and out it came. Topped off the tank with 93 octane and hit Country Club Hills. It rolls now by just just sticking my left leg on the ground and pressing foward. Yea for me! Tomorrow we're going for some distance driving. Maybe wash it 1st but it's remarkably shiny with the nylon panties type cover I bought. Fits really tight all the way to the ground. Good day in my book. So now it's time to get bad.

First bath in a LONG time.

Here's a tool I hope I won't need for a long time but when I do no one's going to f__k with this old man. The handle is 1/8th in. steel plate welded at the edges so it's not as heavy as it looks, the ferrule at the bottom is a spare 9/16" socket.

Good for you Cliff, a week is a long time if it's your daily routine. I did the numbers, I was spending $6,500.00 per year to support my liquid recreation, now I just buy more car parts.

Send me a PM if you want to bring your car to me to fix. I'm available tomorrow. I'm about half an hour away from you.

Glad to hear the battery tray is OK. If the frame rails and floor pans are OK, then you're ahead of most, I'd say...

I won’t be digging into the car for a couple months at least, strictly in research mode right now. I did order a set of Retro Rewind 15x7 wheels and new pair of fresh air ducts that were missing in the engine bay. Right now the brake and clutch pedal go to the floor but the engine is free. I’ll be dropping the tank and going through the fuel system first then get it running. Then I’ll address the clutch and finally the brakes.

I am constrained to working on it part time on some weekends, real life gets on the way. I tried a couple different starters and they all have the exact same dimensions, including one with gear reduction. So, this is not going to be solved easily by replacing the starter. I think the long term fix is to drop the transmission and replace the ring gear and possibly the flywheel (and definitely the clutch while I'm in there). In the short term, I'm modifying one of the extra starter motors with a custom made bracket that would mount the starter and ~8mm deeper into the bell housing. This means cutting off the cast aluminum mounting tabs and attaching my bracket in the same orientation but recessed from the original. It's going to be super ugly but a chance to practice welds. I'll post pictures if I have any success.

18 is fast idle for AC. Sits on top on inlet manifold and activates when airci is running to maintain idle.

Yep, flare nut wrenches would help. If you don’t have them, you’ll probably want to get a set that includes the size for the brake lines also. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You really need flare nut wrenches to get those loose. A penetrant oil and some heat. I wouldn't hack anything if I could avoid it

#4 look to be the metal pieces that go over the rubber pockets at the hatch hinges #8 look to be generic hinge shims #17 looks to be a master cylinder reservoir cap #1,2,3 & 5 look to be dash brackets #9(edit) looks to be brake booster vacuum line #10 might be glove box light switch

RacerX: your buddy has some nice mopars. I love big block A bodies and B vans too. grannyknot: yes it has cruise control but it was probably added too.

This got me straight. After doing it once it clicked for me too, like Tweeds says. You can print it out and keep fuel off your computer/phone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4JVwqu8dgo&t=343s&ab_channel=LivingWithAClassic and https://zcarguide.com/tuning-adjusting-datsun-240z-su-carburetors/ The video and guide are how I learned. I was running in circles for a while on my first tune, then everything kinda clicked.

ZTherapy sells a video: https://ztherapy.com/products/videos/just_SU.htm Here is their main page: https://ztherapy.com/

Sputtering at 3500 rpms while climbing a hill sounds like fuel starvation to me. Especially if it will rev to high rpms in neutral (no load). Fuel filters, float levels, carb balance, fuel pressure, and fuel volume, are where I'd start looking.

I had the same problem going up steep inclines. The front carb would run dry and then it only ran on the back 3 cylinders. I could roll the car backwards and cut the wheel making it perpendicular in the road, let the front carb fill back up and it ran fine for another mile or two. My floats were way off but once I got those adjusted properly I went straight back to Cheaha Mountain and "tested" it. Pulled up that thing like a mule, no sputter whatsoever. The quick and easy way to get an idea where your's are is the clear hose method.

That Z is a keeper, and great color. Nice Super Bee. A long time friend is a Mopar guy. 1972 Tradesman van, he dropped a 340 in it years ago. Suprises all the guys at the Mopar meets at dragstrips. He had a 67 Dart GTS 383 in high school, totalled it. He found a shell about 15 years ago that had been used as a gasser, fenderwells cut open for headers, and nothing but a rear axle. Moved it around his shop like a wheelbarrow. Took about 7 years and he gathered up everything. He is prett proud of it. A 68 Coronet 500. A 69 383 Road Runner. It runs and drives, but is scheduled for the same treatment as the Dart GTS. A 72 383 Barracuda, hasn't been driven in 25 or 30 years, awaiting a full restoration. A 67 Dart GT convertible. A friend was fixing it up for his wife, he got cancer and died, and his wife gave it to my buddy. He spent about 5 years finishing it.

I apologize for digging up bones, particularly my own…. Just wanted to report that 2400 miles in she is running great! Starts easy, idles great, pulls to redline (to be honest I’ve only redlined a couple times). Compression is 160 to 165 across all 6, did a leak down test on #1 today and according to the gauge I’m well within acceptable leakage, I’m planning to test the rest this weekend but I feel confident that they will be close to #1 Looking forward to getting my Z Therapy carbs, hopefully next month, to seal off the last of the vacuum leaks around the throttle shafts. id like to thank you all for your input

864 deaths last week Nationwide. Hospitals are getting crowded, but people are recovering, not dying. My analogy with monthly traffic deaths are on par with covid, but never heard of refer trucks for that issue. Edit; I never once said or believe any of this is fake, but the numbers I think are not accurate.

Here’s some more pics and a link to a lot of photos of the Swedish jdm scene. https://photos.app.goo.gl/ABFdrQKXeDiJuXFq5

I couldn't wait, even with the heat of the day pounding down on me. I had to do the test drive. I cleared out a path to back out of the garage, buttoned up the car, and set up the camera. This would be the first time since April 2010 that the car has moved under its own power. I backed it out of the garage and started recording. With a stock engine and suspension, it feels so different from the modified 260Z. I started down the road and noticed that the steering wheel is pointed toward 2 o'clock. I'll fix that tomorrow. There was also quite a tick from the valvetrain. I'll check the valve lash tomorrow, as well. You can hear it in the video when I pull back into the garage. The drive was uneventful. I just went down the road a couple of miles and drove it back home. It came up to temperature nicely, and the oil pressure was good. Of course, this description is no measure of my satisfaction of getting the car back on the road. Tomorrow I plan on washing the car, vacuuming out the interior, and tackling the tasks mentioned earlier. If I get done soon enough, I may also change the oil. It's been a few years since I last did that on this car. Then I have fix the gas gauge. Otherwise, I've VERY happy with where I am with this car.

Do you need to drop a hint about what your kids should get you for Father's Day? https://www.autozone.com/ratchets-sockets-and-wrenches/socket-set/duralast-10mm-socket-set-10-piece/582151_0_0?spps.s=3827&cmpid=LIA:US:EN:AD:NL:1000000:TLS:71700000060668368&gclid=Cj0KCQjw8IaGBhCHARIsAGIRRYrdJYwuRUVPbX4xGYByivEdXCmfN4kouAnXE0V4H-HS7NJd_3-iH4oaAqGfEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds Of course, the chances are that you'll lose them in the same places that you lost all of the others...

A guy wins a 3 week holiday to the Caribbean, problem is.....he has a pet gorilla. He asks all his mates if they will look after it and they all make up crappy excuses for not doing it. He gets really desperate so he asks this guy he barely knows. He told him he could stay at his house for the entire 3 weeks and he'd pay him 250 quid. He tells this guy to feed it bananas and nothing else and then he says 'whatever you do don't touch the gorilla!', so the guy nods his head and then leaves for the airport. Three weeks go by, and the guy has managed to look after the pet gorilla. With a few hours to go until he is set to return, the guy starts to wonder what would happen if he touches the gorilla. He reaches through the metal bars, and touches the arm of the gorilla. Immediately, the gorilla jumps up and starts going crazy, pulling the bars apart. The guy quickly runs out of the house and jumps in a taxi. He can see the gorilla running down the road behind the taxi jumping on other cars, causing chaos. The man reaches the train station, where he jumps out and boards the train nearest to him. The train sets out, and he can see the gorilla running along the train track behind the train pulling up the wooden planks that hold the tracks together. The train arrives at the airport and he rushes to the nearest plane and takes off. The gorilla quickly manages to jump onto the wing of the plane and is hanging on throughout the flight. The plane lands at an airport by the sea, and he sprints from the airport to a dock in which he boards a boat. The gorilla swam for 2 miles behind the boat until they reached an island. The man jumped out the boat and ran up the sand and then realised he wasn't going to make it any further so he turned around and fell onto the ground exhausted. The gorilla ran up to the guy and shouted........TAG! YOU’RE IT!

Yesterday I tightened some loose bolts on the intake, so I decided to fill the tank and see if I got rid of the "tick". The tick was still there. When I parked the car in the garage after filling the tank, I thought I smelled fuel. I popped the hood to sniff and look. No leaks there. I walked around and found gas leaking from the left vent hose, and an pretty good stream, too. I pushed the car so the leak was hitting the driveway, and I started siphoning the gas out of the tank to drop it below the vent hose. After a while, I went to remove the bad end. The rubber had completely broken down, and turned gummy. Imagine that happening with only 11 years sitting soaking in gasoline turning into varnish. I capped the vent hose and ordered parts to run the replacement hose any way I need to get it to match up to the intact upper part of that vent hose. The other problem that is lurking is that there is loose rust in the tank. I pulled some out when I was siphoning the tank.