Zed Head

The pictures look good. The "Profile 50% complete" message is meaningless, don't worry about it. Might take you a while to find the right buyer. $10K is on the high side. This site doesn't have a ton of ZX enthusiasts either. Good luck.

So you're going to assume that the inner dimensions of the yoke are accurately machined, and use the internal clips? Could work. Nissan might have found that staking saved clips and time on the manufacturing line. I hope that there wasn't a final machining step that they skipped also. One of my early bad car experiences was with u-joints. Mixing and matching caps and clamps on a GTO driveshaft. Got so used to the bad vibrations that I didn't realize my wheel was about to fall off. High school cruising days. Luckily I had a friend riding with me to chase the wheel down while I stayed with the car in the middle of the road. We got away with a ton back then.

Howdy Darlene. Welcome. For $10,000 some pictures would help. It's not a turbo ZX is it? That would help too. Good luck. I can check it out if somebody is interested.

Holy moly. I took another Google and ended up on RockFORD driveline, not Rockwell. And found this. You might be on to something. Check the other dimensions. Looks like four possibilities. Did you just brute-force past the stakes or do some grinding? http://old.rockforddriveline.com/ujointinside.htm

It rolls and has Ed Brock suspension, plus a Leaf Gard.. Looks like somebody could put it back together. Win. $1000.

Just remembered some funny fit business with CV axles, from the past. When I did a Google on it I found that it's actually gotten worse. Used to be just a specialty axle house, now it's Autozone.

Do the grooves match your yokes? Stalking...

Not to clutter but I thought this document was interesting. It mentions the crimping. I searched the number on the end of your u-joint. http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/78011.pdf

Found the kit. You can see the groove in his pictures. https://www.f150forum.com/f72/replacing-staked-u-joints-175529/ Who knows, maybe Nissan ground the flats on the inside of the yoke for an internal clip, but then staked it in. Can't tell what kind of clips the 43-010 uses.

They write like replacing a staked-in joint is a common thing. I have seen kits for other brands of cars, that come with a little grinding/cutting tool that cuts out the stake. But if I recall correctly the yokes for those kits had a groove already in place, that was used for a circlip afterward. Kind of like the manufacturer staked in a clipped u-joint for some reason. Cut out the stakes and use the old clips. Looks like a fun project anyway. http://www.theujointstore.com/43010.html

The tip breaks off at the base of the threads. The hard polyurethane on the back puts a bending force on the tip of the rod. It seems to fatigue it until it breaks. Mine moaned and groaned until finally it broke when I backed the wheel in to a curb while parking. If you install two PU bushings and then install the rod in its spot you'll find that it locates the rod very firmly in one position. Grab the other end and try to move it and you'll see how it loads the tip.

MSA has them for $299. With replaceable joints. They must have a shop that makes them up. I looked yesterday, it's on page 2 of the search results. From what I've read about replacements shafts some of them come without the dirt shield and leave the slip yoke exposed. Something to be aware of. Other issues besides just getting the old joints out and the new ones in, with either of the possible methods for keeping them in, are balancing. By the time it's a done, it's still just a part you can't see, that could end up causing vibration problems. Seems like a high risk-reward ratio to try it yourself.

Apparently they started staking in 1975. So a 74 or older shaft will have replaceable joints. The very early 1971 shafts, which are shorter, won't fit though. But if you want the really good Nissan high-precision u-joints, they're about $70 each.

They're meant to be permanent. "Staked" is the term to describe them. Some driveshaft shops will machine out the stakes and make a circlip groove, or replace the joint and and restake it. It's a bummer.

Not sure how he decides what's worth acquiring. Maybe condition. He has some odd ones. http://www.duncanimports.com/used/Nissan/1991-Nissan-Pathfinder-9e2c0f540a0e08bc6617fc39c18db72d.htm

A simple point that might help clarify - you already cut the bumpers off. So this is not a "restoration". Not to start an argument about what's proper, just pointing out that the word restoration is pretty well defined for car work. It means taking it back to its original from-the-factory condition. Resto-mod might be more correct for what you're doing. Refurbishment would sound right if it was a part. Doesn't feel right for a whole car. Anyway, the question is, as whee says, what are you intending the final product to be? Since it's not a restoration, you have a lot more leeway. Edit - some examples of descriptive labels might be show car, daily driver, street/track car, like that. Gives a feel for intentions.

This is for sale though. Not sure exactly what it is. It's used. http://www.duncanimports.com/used/Datsun/1971-Datsun-510-28e4c14b0a0e08be4378de2bddee7083.htm

At least something good came out of that other thread. If anybody has OCD it's the guy with the giant car collection. Funny though, he has no 240Z's. But he does have some 280Z's. Apparently not for sale though. Probably waiting for them to increase in value. http://www.duncanimports.com/all-inventory/index.htm?search=280Z&dl.custom.form.id=&dl.element=BUTTON+Search&dl.formElapsedTime=5244&dl.formTrackingId=INVENTORY_SEARCH&dl.isModal=&dl.params=&dl.widgetName=Try+another+search

Did anybody save the link to that huge collection of cars? Pazt has deleted all of the links and pictures. Can't blame him. Wouldn't want to inflict this on my friends. There were four pretty nice 280Z's in the collection. But no 240Z's. Edit - found it - http://www.duncanimports.com/ Don't worry Pazt, the 280Z crowd is pretty mellow...

That was an excellent game. Thought there would be a few more words about it. Good to see the good guys win.

Stick a long screwdriver or metal shaft through the other side of the u-joint. The other yoke. The u-joints and yokes are very strong. While you're breaking the bolt free you can watch the individual bearing caps for play to see if the joints are worn.

The antipathy was to people who nitpick. Not the forum itself. Edit - and if that's not a biased "precis" I don't know what biased means. Edit 2 - I did have to look up precis though...

He was planning to come back, and share.

I don't see anything about "above" in his first reply. Just a clarification. Removing some bias.

This is some weird psychology going on here, isn't there? I see a ton of cognitive bias. Believing what you hope to be true, instead of seeing what is. Or maybe it's just plain old confusion. Throwing insults when you're confused is pretty common. Thanks for the "compliment" Diseazd. Also, don't really know what to think about somebody who lets a single person drive them away (note - I'm not the one). Seems like pazt is letting HS30 push him out. Which might be what HS30 wanted. The pond is too small. Alrighty then. This thread is about dead. Let some days go by...