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Some more pics of the head assembly! P90 back with all the work complete. Reg has the Colt Cam all buttoned up and rotating smooth, lash pads and springs. Hope to make some good power with this head.

Friday I reinstalled the driveshaft and installed the tail end of the exhaust. I left the front end of the exhaust loose because the transmission mount insulator was mostly dead, and a new one was due to arrive today. I installed a new speedometer cable on the pinion and filled the transmission with oil. Today I installed the starter and installed the insulator. The car is touching the ground again, and I got the interior back together. Tomorrow I'll finish the installation of the speedometer cable and hook up the battery. There are also a lot of tools waiting to be put back in their homes.

Nah, she’s too young for me. Oh, wait, I bet you’re talking about the car, aren’t you? Never mind.

I wonder if Amazon is using AI that generates images and ads based on your internet browsing history. If not yet I'm sure it's not far off. They have it making videos of Elon Musk eating toilets haha.

Some siblings are in town visits with my Mum, so I had a bit of time to work on the front end stuff. Never marked which tension rod was which, but they have the same marking, so I'm assuming L & R are equal. Volvo offered several lengths when they had a similar design. used a silver enamel on these, easier to see leaks against the lighter color, but I'm not sure I can deal with it if the suspension components stand out looking at the car. Probably going to repaint them black I had acid dipped & cleaned all the hardware, so I primed & primed the sway bar & tension rod bushing plates stripped the struts. everything that I'm keeping is in good shape, just had to strip the strut tubes of the crust around the upper tube top bushings and spring seats cleaned up wheel bearings all flushed of old grease. The races and bearing really look good, so I'm just going to re-grease them & pack the hub this time around. I didn't hear any bearing whine or grumble in the front end when driving. hubs need to be cleaned up

Checking on an order status when I saw this. Pretty Cool. Belong to anyone you know?

Yes. I think at that point you think whatever...

Still waiting to get the motor back together. Hopefully next week.

All is good. Just took two of to rock it a bit. Had to bleed the brakes. Car runs great. Brakes work good

And.. he's still smoking his sigaret! Good to see him among friends.

He finally seems to have started on the 5 speed 😄. Let's be patient.. I pulled the 240Z out of winter storage VERY late this, year, just weeks ago. Winter stayed very long... It's still 18c during the day, for the time of the year it's cold.. I replaced a fuel line and filter in the engine bay, and in the summer I will do the valve adjustments again. Some basic stuff. Clean up the engine bay. Last week I had a kind of sad request... some guy my parents know, was dying of cancer, and one of his last wish was to see and drive in a 240Z, so who am I to refuse that ? Was glad I could make his day.. 🙂 Some pictures of that...

The original poster requested the thread size and pitch, which I provided with additional details about the fastener. I apologize for the my use of the apparently forbidden “Phillips” term when describing machine screws on a Datsun. I shall from now on use the non-gendered term “X” or “cross” as a generic pronoun to describe screws of this style. Then the readers of the thread can choose to find and use hardware with the drive type of their choice, be it “phillips” or “JIC” or “posi-drive” or whatever the drive of the day is. Sometimes you just need to put the bumpers on with the hardware that locally available and not the exactly correct fastener. Oh, and let me also apologize for an early morning snarky response…..

Did you have the parking brake engaged? They can stick. Been there. Done that. Got the t-shirt. I had to push the car pretty good to break the brakes loose.

And the piece de resistance, a new engine plate for that must have bling!