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Hmmmm... Maybe these are not the right inner bushings? Kit incorrect? Maybe some of the other bushings just happen to fit that ID? Look at the others for the ones with the really skinny flange... just grasping at straws here

The most recent couple of these I installed had much thinner inner faces that these. The fit was 'snug', but this looks impossible. I guess I'd take them out and sand them thinner. What brand are they and when were they purchaced. Tough to use anything sharp other than on a lathe.

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I would be very curious why the mech. thinks it needs shims. Ask him to explain how the measurements were made. There are no shims in the stock factory configuration, just a choice of three different "Distance Pieces" stampled A, B and C. I've personnally never seen anything other than 'B"'s. If shims are needed, you either find a different strut housing or make shims. Or have a new piece of pipe made to make a distanct piece that is the right length as mentioned above. This is basic machine shop stuff. Shim stock is nearly free. Another thought, for 240 stubs, you will often find a copper "shim" on top of the inner bearing between the inner axle flange and the bearing.This is not a spacer, it is (I've heard it here!) a noise reducing trick. It has nothing to do with positioning the bearings in the races.

Belmetric is another favorite source for on-line metric hardware. https://www.belmetric.com/12x125-extra-fine-c-506_510_411/?zenid=4r9ti9km82ktavslj3ruvmb9b2

As long as the bolt threads in by 1.5 times the diameter of the bolt or protrudes through the hole its threaded in, you should be fine. They are 12mm x 1.25 bolts if you go shopping. Buy the 10.9 grade ones.

Man there isn't much that high input pressure do other than overwhelm the needle seat and overflow the bowls. Once the pressure is right, nothing else should be an issue. Maybe the needle fit changed, or the floats where tweeked? Might make a pretty high velocity jet through the needle orfice. Who knows what it caused. Do check float levels while running if that's possible. You need the in/out flow stabilized to see where the floats sit in operating mode. I'd be tempted to take a look at the floats and pivots and needle tips to make sure everything is tickatee boo.

The cross member can be installed either way, but the correct way puts the larger exhaust semi-circular cutout on the left side where the exhaust runs. Motorman7's picture shows the correct orientation

All booked and coming. What I'm coming IN is totally undecided. Hopefully I will survive the mind numbing drive there and back....

Good question. There is a central metal tube/sleeve inside the rubbers that the large washers get squeezed together until the washers bottom out on that sleeve. Once tight, the bushing pair are automatically centered on the frame by virtue of both bushings being made of the same stiffness. As you drive, that rod is in compression (accel) or tension (braking) which deforms them somewhat. Having a poly bushing on the front and a rubber bushing on the back implies that the static position is NOT centered affecting caster somewhat. Take a look at the rubber bushing before and after torque up and see just how much it crushes. One note that I brought up before here, the torque spec for the nut on the end is to obtained ONLY once the washers lock up on the central sleeve. There are situations where you might reach the torque spec BEFORE that happens, like dirty threads, very stiff bushings or TC rod not at a neutral position forcing the bushings into an awkward position. We had a big thread elsewhere about this where folks were using two nuts to lock them up as they were coming loose. Using a new locknut is important, as well as ensuring you have sleeve clamp down.

I'd like to hear you-all's experiences with the optical quality after tint film once applied to glass with the usual (and well earned) "patina" of scratches, pittings, etc. The defroster grids are raised off the glass, does this cause obvious line-distortions or is it pretty good? Side windows? How do the scratches and dings look, ie are they hidden or accentuated? I'm trying to decide if this something I want to do this summer.

The stock bushings are mounted with the flat (thin) side against the frame pocket, and the washers are counter-intuitively (I think) positioned with the convex curved face (sticky-outy) toward the curved (thicker) side of the bushings like this: )B-|-B( Brackets are washers, B are the rubber bushings and | is the frame pocket. The right hand B( gives you the correct bushing roundness vs washer convex-ness orientation. This gives you more bushing washer freedom to move and surprisingly gives you more threads sticking out when you try to get the nut on the end of the rod!

There are two other ground points. Talking 240's here. 280's have EFI related grounds as well. The second is under the gas tank at the right rear of the chassis just inside the rear valence. It threads into the side of a frame member back there. Gas tank has to come out to get to it. The third is to the left of the battery on the firewall. There is a 6mm threaded hole. Not the one directly above the battery where the frame attaches, about 2-3 inches left of the top of the battery. It was designed to have a lug from the main '-' battery cable connect there before it goes down to terminate on a starter mounting bolt. This provides the engine block to body ground. Often lost when the old stock cables are replaced with generic ones. If you don't have one, create a 8 or 10 gauge wire to connect that firewall point to some engine block bolt. Maybe mention the black ring terminal ground connection on the back of the alternator as well? Important for proper voltage reg and alternator reference.

Devastating news for his family. He will be missed by many. Seems he passed doing what he loved. Sometimes I hate this place as it allows me to only touch a few of the good souls that live "here" without really knowing them. John was one of those. We were just bantering about Datsun development and values over on hybridz with great respect about differing opinions. I smiled again as I knew he enjoyed (tolerated?) my ribbing even though we've never met. Now if we can all use this terrible event to help us remember what's really important....

Interesting idea. I've never done this, but I'm pretty sure the rubber end/fillers would be pushed into the body forcing you to remove them or the least trim them. This would leave the ugly bumper with no end trim. Not sure how this would be better then going with skinny bumpers. Something about not being able make a silk purse out of a sows ear....

Great day! Learned another early Z uniqueness! Definitely got into #72 via the floor donor. I'd feel obliged to remove it! Hard to imagine that little strip adds much in the way of stiffness. Some for sure. Wonder if you can fell your butt fall and rise on a good bump with floor flex...

Just checking which little brace you're referring to. Do you mean the strip that crosses the entire floor pan and connects to the back of the rear mount pads and ties them to the floor? I had no idea that was not there in the early cars! I have 8570 here right now, it has it. No surprise they wanted to ad more strength to these mounts though. The 280's seat mounts were 2-3 times stronger than the 240 mounts.

The complexity of adding all those pieces to just raise the RPM to the "high" sync level during an infrequent service, makes me think there just HAD to be more to it. But it's clearly stated in the FSM and maybe even on the air cleaner housing that this is just for this one test. Now I have to admit to using it as a idle setting device.. Since there is an interaction between the two on-carb idle setting screws and the inter-carb sync screw, that makes you go round-and-round tweaking all three to get both the sync and idle right. Then you put the air cleaner on and later decide the idle is too high. Here we go again.... Bahhh.. So back the two carb idle screws off, and use the high idle screw to get idle, balance flow using only the inter-carb link screw, then set the idle where you like. and tweek it later without affecting the idle Feel free to call me lazy. I prefer to think I'm giving a piece of generally un-used and un-appreciated equipment a moment in the spotlight. If it had a thumb it would be under its nose, saying, "I can hold idle just as well as the two of you, all by myself!"

It will be interesting to see where the price goes. Watching carefully. Good luck with the sale!

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Whoa whoa whoa. Chickenman, you're sipping too much happy juice again! Those fuel lines under the floor pan on the right (passenger) side like in the pictures above all ALL 280Z !! Never ever seen a 240 with them anywhere but way up in the tunnel running to the right side of the shifter hole like the red car picture above, and I've been intiment everything from VIN 137 to 175,000. That black picture is clearly the seedy underbelly of a 280, see how far back the frame rails run under the floor pans? Sent from my iPad using Classic Zcar Club

Oh! Well that's easy. Send me a note to z240@shaw.ca and I'll get a set in a box for you and send some pics!

Is it just the bolts you are after or all the plates as well? They are just M10x1.25 as noted, maybe 30mm long. Grade 10.9 JIS for sure. Belmetric would have them. I wouldn't feel bad using SAE 3/8 Gr8 NF hardware either. At the local "Bolt supply house" the Gr8 fine hardware is all CAD plated and purdy too! Bonus. I have spares of the top/bottom plates if you need a set.

Carbs and linkage sold to local buyer.. thanks

Interesting. Chances are something is worn. If you need a knob or switch let me know.