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I block sanded the top of the car to the belt line. Done with 400 on top... A couple of little flaws. One on the right side of the hatch Two small ones on the roof The plan is to do down to the body line and the tail light panel tomorrow

My 1st bike was a CT 70. My Dad bought that before he bought me a bycycle. He lived way out in the county. No kids my age to get to by a bycycle so he got me a mini bike. Great Dad decision.

I got one for you, When I lived in Meridian MS and was a flight instructor at the Navy base, my roommate crashed his pathfinder and borrowed my 88 Toyota pickup 4x4 for 3 months. I finally got my car back when his was repaired and one day my fiancé’ now wife opened the glove box to get something and pulled out a set of women’s panties. Boy did I have to explaining to do! Somehow deep in her mind she still doesn’t believe me? Every now and then she says something about those panties. 😵‍💫

For shipping of the tank, I used a wardrobe box from Uhaul and cut down the height to reduce its dimensions. Worked out well, they sent it back in the same box.

Thanks, I'll bet it's something like that. Too bad its coming apart, I'm not sure I'll be able to tend to it without splitting the tank in two. Those are great little bikes! I run my CT90 about twice a week in the winter and regularly to work in the summer, only 8 miles from my house. Mostly for fun but now that gas doesn't seem to be going below $4.00 a gallon here it's nice to get 90+MPG. Premium only in the Z gets it driven about twice a week too if it's lucky.

Finished modelling the glove box, not perfect but reasonably close. On the weekend I will post the model and flat patterns to the club downloads area. @Seppi72 I hope all went well with your hip surgery. Best wishes, Mike

Gents ,sitting in the hotel bar in Aachen, Germany drinking beers alone, the guy I’m flying with lives in Germany (we send pilots here for 4 hrs from US), so he’s at home with his family, The COVID things is a big deal over here, where at home where I live it’s a almost a thing of the past. Nobody wears masks where I live anymore and life is pretty much normal. Not here, you have to show proof of vaccination everywhere you go and people wear mask outdoors alone. They scan your phone as you enter a business. I don’t have that phone QR code and get the stink eye when I show my old school CDC card. To enter the Christmas market they scan and tag your wrists. I don’t fly until tomorrow night. So I’ve got time to burn now. Anyway you all know about by fuel tank issue. I called a company in Raleigh, NC about 2 hrs from where I live and they repair and fix fuel tanks. They guy said it would be as good as new and they’d repair the leaking area where the hoses attach. 100% guaranteed he said. I was on the fence about ordering a new tank but held off after I told my wife it was $825 shipped for a new tank on a car that she hates. We have a $500 policy? Any purchase over $500 requires us to get permission from the other, She said…” how much have you spent of this car that sits there and leaks gas in the garage?” $350 to do the fuel tank restoration! That doesn’t need spouse approval so it the direction I’m going. https://www.northraleighautomotive.com/fuel-tank.html

Stacked some more high build today

Did you run the shoes out with the adjusting wheel before installing the drums? If your parts are right you should be able to crank the parking brake handle up and down about ten times and tighten them up. I could tell when the wheel moved an extra click on my 76 because the brake pedal got a bit higher in use. p.s. don't forget that if you can pump the pedal and it gets higher and harder then there's air in the system. If you can't then something mechanical is out of adjustment.

They are at the top. After the last test drive the rotors were warm but the drums were dead cold. Going to probably do another round of bleeding first then go from there.

Surgery was a breeze: in surgery at 11:30 a.m. and discharged at 5 p.m. Whatever surgical pain I have is no worse that what the joint pain was beforehand -- and at least I can look forward to this pain going away. Getting around the house just fine without a walker but have one for outdoors. Hoping to be in my shop media blasting a rear strut by the weekend as my Eibach springs will be getting here on Friday so I can start to assemble those bits. Techno Toy Tuning rear suspension parts arriving this week as well. Those will likely have to wait for a January install when I can easily get up and down from a creeper. Goals, goals, goals. Looking forward to seeing your lay-flats and if and how they might differ from what ETI4K has done. They'll probably be with a millimeter of each other.

I suspect there is rust under the coating, bubbling it up. I also suspect muriatic would strip it off one it started getting under it. Put some bolts or rock or something in the tank and gently shake for some extra cleaning action

You'll have to replace those bolts anyway so you could use a nut splitter like this one,

Most bike shops I worked at sold a product call Kreem. A white three part coating. even back in the late 70's and 80's https://www.kreem.com/fueltankliner.html

Here's some silver/gray stuff. There have been probably been many different colors over the years.

Charles, have you heard about these Acrylic Linear sanding blocks? There is a number of vids on Utube, very impressive how flat they get your panels, I just ordered the the 12" set and will try them out on the 240z this winter. https://linearblockingtools.com/our-products

Ordered the tanks,caps,clamps and inserts from Pegasus. Thanks @mailnomefor the information. $50 including shipping. Hopefully this will resolve the leak. I will report back once installed.

Av8ferg, Given your profession, and what was found in your glove box, may I say that this was a case of Dreams Take Flight.

I've heard valets using Tile trackers they put in high end cars when they park them then copy the key and find it with the Tile tracker. That was years ago at Atlanta's airport. Also put Tiles in luggage packed with cocaine and the unloaders pulled those suitcases before they went inside to the carousel. Baggage handlers that were millionaires.

So I wasn't sure these were factory holes at first, but my other car has rubber plugs here. These were a little deformed and I couldn't get to them with a hammer and dolly. So I had to come up with another way. It's a little hard to tell but one edge of edge hole was pushed in towards the quarter panel So I found a bolt about the right size and some washers Tighten it down snug in the hole and if necessary hit it with a hammer to make it perpendicular to the opening. Pad the the bolt to protect the threads Worked really well!

Modify the head with a grinder of file.