Terrapin Z

I am pretty sure I have one available, I picked up some 280Z parts a while back. I will confirm this afternoon when I am home from work.

I search eBay a lot too, and see many overpriced items, as well as some deals. I have not seen anything like this before. Where everything is the same price. If you look at their sold list it is all normal pricing. I know these "store" sellers upload and relist items in bulk. I thought the uploaded might have somehow set the price the same on everything. I do find your money laundering theory interesting and quite plausible in the online auction setting. I do find it strange how the same items are in the sold list, as well as the new list when it is a single used part.

I know the price of parts has been going up recently on these cars but $1000 for a fuel filer or an oil filter, single spark plugs, alternators, Etc. These guys are out for bank. https://www.ebay.com/sch/123autoparts-1/m.html?item=402529327836&fits=Make%3ADatsun&hash=item5db89e1adc%3Ag%3ADLoAAOSwyjZfoKgb&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 At least most are free shipping. lol I went through many pages of their 396K parts for sale and they are all $1000 BIN. 98.5% positive I know it is probably a glitch, just funny to me.

If I look up Home in google it comes up as the third entry, but has the HTTPS protocol as shown, clicking that will end up with the site that does not function correctly. At least for me. Again if I pull it from my bookmark in Safari or from cache history it populates the HTTP protocol.

Ah this worked. When Zedhead first brought this up I just goggled Zhome and did end up with the https site. I just now manually removed the s and the page works fine. I went to edit this in my bookmark and found it was http and not https. So if i had tried this from my bookmark it would have not given my this issue of dead links. That must be why it worked a few weeks ago as I normally get to the page through my bookmarks. Good call.

To be clear, in the past when I checked you site for say, registry info the left panel links worked a few weeks ago. I only tried again the other day when Zed Head mentioned the issue. I tried again just now. When I click on the book it does take me to a new page lulu. That seems fine. In the left menu side of the main screen the at the top seems to work taking me lower in the left panel like an index should. Z Car Home Page - Section Descriptions: Again clicking on any of the "expanded site index below" does not go anywhere. Expanded Site Index Below: Internet Z Car Club in Firefox currently, and a few weeks ago in Safari it would open those index links in the right panel. The two links "How to join" and "Searchable members list" both lead to "403 forbidden" Not sure what is up but I hope this info will help you sort it out.

Carl, I have Safari 14.0 Running on Catalina and it still only works with right click open in new. I also tried it in FireFox 82.0 and it works fine.

Strange, If you just click on them they don't do anything. Right click - open in a new window/tab and they work just fine.

I looked at it again and found the rating is based on the last 12 months 10 positive reviews and 1 negative then some strange math. Still has 1063 feedback and I looked through 8 pages and saw only one neutral. Positives: 10 Negatives: 1 This member's positive Feedback percentage 10 / ( 10 + 1 ) = 90.9% Ebay is all about selling something, anything for any price. They just want to make their 10% on the sale no matter what. Now they make 10% off the shipping too. Which then can cut into your personal profit. You have to pad the shipping charge to cover the fee. Kind of screws the seller IMO. I don'y buy much on eBay anymore, just every now and then when something good shows up for a reasonable price. Farther and fewer nowadays for sure. I agree with you though, the guys seems to have a chip for sure. As I expect you saw has not been on here for 4 years either.

4 canceled bids in the $5K range three of which had 0 feedback the last was in the 400's. 6 solid bidders, the leader has been in it for some time now. I only saw one negative and it was someone upset that he sold the item local and did not delete the ad fast enough. Not sure why that would take him down near 10% though.

The FaceBook people are on to it now. Over $9000 with over 3 days to go.

Steve, I think you mean this link. https://www.carpartsmanual.com/datsun/Z-1969-1978/engine-240z-260z/emission-control-device #4 The part number is correct 11830-E3000 (discontinued.) Yours went to a s12 Silvia. (?) No offense intended.

I agree with you on that, a lot of the other Datsun models (510, 620, 720 etc) have them up higher on the firewall or inner fender. Even the 280 had theirs up higher on the fender.

He sent a few more pic's but has even more on Zdriver : https://www.zdriver.com/forums/fs-240z-260z-280z-280zx-70-83-242/70-240z-43197/#post348914 Here is a better look at the plate. Looks like something else was mounted in the lower holes where it would normally sit.

I emailed the seller, He says he had a ton of questions and requests for more pictures. He power washed it and sent these to me. He said eBay would not let him ad pics to the posting.

Maybe that is why a $5000 bid was just retracted. lol "Oh it's got guano..... No thanks" Now back to $3650.00

Ran across this this morning. decent shape, no motor or transmission. Seller says it is one of the last of the 70's cars. Registered as a 7. It will be interesting to see where it ends up, climbed $1000 today. Strange place for the Vin Tag. There are a few more pictures on eBay, I just grabbed the pertinent ones. Can not see the 20 mph speedo, holes in the doors and steering wheel too. Respray, but might have been red to start. I'm not bidding, just looking and sharing. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1970-Datsun-Z-Series/203153325045?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3Db718d64d187545578ac6886f49a4692b%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D15%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D353251201992%26itm%3D203153325045%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3Af1e00ce6-17d4-11eb-8313-86bfdda5f0f0|parentrq%3A66e20e8a1750a45e619da51dffe53cbe|iid%3A1

Congrats on fixing the part you started out after - the mirrors. Unwind the gears off the teeth like it was when you pulled it out of the door and the spring fell off. Then with it as far as it will go in that direction put the spring on and then push it back up towards the teeth (against Spring pressure) Then used the window crank to start the teeth engagement again. There is a lot of pressure with the spring so extra hands help here to turn the crank while holding the spring pressure. Hope that makes more sense.

See you will be an expert in no time. This is not an easy thing to explain in words. You can look up some You Tube vids on replacing a regulator to help. The FSM has some info to if you don't have one there are downloads on this forum and some other web sites too like http://www.xenonzcar.com To get the spring back wound I disengaged the head and spin it way down, put the spring on and the push against the tension to get it back up to the gear and use the crank to get the gears engaged. You should be able to see where the spring was in the wear marks so you get it on the right way. The red circle marked 'arm" looks like it is bent in this pic. perhaps when you brut forced the handle. This needs to be straightened out if it is bent, it might just be the pic angle. ??? The rollers have that washer behind them like I mentioned earlier. hopefully yours are all intact. They tear and make it hard to roll the window up or down. I have seen some repair kits on eBay for these recently. If you need them. I am not sure you can get this back in right without taking the window out. You could try it. Normally the regulator goes in first with most of the screws in place then the window is tilted into the door and slid back and forth to get it on the guides. I usually get the top two in first then add the small lower one in last The small green one in your pic ^. Then crank it all the way up into the closed position helping it up, and then tighten down the guides. Roll it up and down a few times making any adjustments as needed. Kind of a pain but you can get it with some patients.

I had to learn all about the inside of both doors when I had the car painted. Every thing came out and was cleaned and repaired. Getting them back in line wasn't too hard but I did have to fiddle with it for a while. There are some plastic washers behind the regulator rollers that get damaged and can bind up as well, making it hard to roll up or down. You might need a small mirror to see all of them while in the door. Those mirrors do look like the rally mirrors. You can see a few sets on eBay here https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1313&_nkw=240z+rally+mirror&_sacat=0 there might be a stamped 40202 under the pivot part (some bay pic's show that too) Looks like they had a seal and bracket that went inside the door. Were yours just sheet metal screwed on the the shell? The stock mirror is still available from Nissan and also had a bracket inside the door. We await your update....off to work now.

Almost sounds like you may have over turned the drive gear in relation to the driven gear in the regulator. Once those separate the spring makes it a little hard to reengage. As 7tooZ said pulling up on the glass while turning the crank might work. But if you disengaged the gears you might have to disassemble the whole thing and re-set it all from scratch. It is a little challenging but it might be the best option. I'm just not sure if you (a) separated the gears, or (b) if you did, can get them back in line while still in the door. I really can't tell much from the pic's But if the handle can spin without moving the window the gear might be separated. IMHO Again like 7tooZ says not the end of the world, it can be fixed. The 240Z did not have a passenger mirror, is this an add on of some sort? or a 280Z?

The early 240 came with the switch like @7tooZ shows in his radio face plate. It has a single white arrow up only. It also has a different mounting bracket. The early one had a larger plate and 4 holes. The OP's switch is what I believe to be a 280 under dash mounted switch which had both arrows in white. He needs the smaller switch for that particular radio. Like this one. As to why it would be in your car is probably the original broke or went bad and the later 280 was substituted in.

The drivers side has two wires one for the buzzer and one for the light. Passenger side should only have one wire.

Kind of looks like this one ...... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Engine-Mount-Rear-for-Datsun-200B-2-0L-4cyl-P810-L20B-LPG-MT8215-/141748203683 L20B 4 cyl.

I too have issues with a lot of thing on this car as being 31K miles and original. While it is in good shape I don't see it being a $100k + specimen. Along with all the items mentioned above, was there talk of the Master cylinders? Clutch and Brake I missed?. You can still buy more correct looking Tokico's from Nissan. Aren't the seats on the wrong sides? Shouldn't the adjuster knobs be to the inside? So many little things I am not going to list, best of luck to the buyer, I hope it suits their needs and budget.