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I don't see how brake fluid can get into the cabin thru the booster, I think you should persue the M/C bleed and go from there.

Dip your finger in white paint and grind it into the balancer all the way around. You will find the marks.

GreenZZZ, looks amazing, excellent work, you get an at-a-boy on the tubing and a thanks..............Just so it doesn't feel thankless...............

So let me get this strait, you went and looked at the car, that's how you got the SN for the thread heading, correct? So since you've seen it and, I assume, did some inspection, please share your observations as to it's condition. The guys looking for the build date specific cars, know when this car was produced based on the 00854 number. As a parts car, even a Dec. 69 car, I still would not go to check it out, using that add as a basis to decide, for the reasons I mentioned above. It's been my experience that sellers that post add's with filthy barn cars and high prices are selling just that, filthy barn cars with inflated values.

Some better bets http://www.datsunclassifieds.com/showproduct.php/product/6126/title/-2773-240z-for-sale/cat/1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Datsun-Z-Series-240Z-1971-Datsun-240Z-Rare-Colors-L24-5SPD-Clear-Title-/270842624735?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item3f0f7a7adf http://www.dragtimes.com/classifieds-viewer.php?itemID=180746671241 http://www.dragtimes.com/classifieds-viewer.php?itemID=220883206476 http://cars.oodle.com/view/nisson-240z/2779075125-austinville-va/ http://www.project240z.com/Blog/itemId/458/1973-Datsun-240z-For-Sale.aspx

If you are looking to part the car out and make a little cash, $150 is a good number. By the time you haul it home, strip it down, assess the parts you can sell, scrap the junk, market the goodies, deal with all the questions, package and ship the stuff that DOES sell, and so on, your gold mine still isn't WORTH $1800. Judging from the fact that the owner isn't even willing to hose the thing off, the fact that the windows are open in that barn environment, the fact that the car looks to have been left that way for a decade or more, I would think it a streatch to call it a gold mine. Not even worth a look with such a high number attached.

Good one.

My Z has only a 10 inch glass pack at the end of the 2 inch pipe that starts at the header, it is loud. But I drive with respect in populated areas. Perhaps respect is the key.

I'll say it needs some TLC, or is a TLC, TOTALLY LOST CAUSE. I wouldn't give $180.00 for that POS, this car likely is a poster child for "where to look for common rust areas on a HLS30".

I think the fact that you have to worry about the neighbors screwing with your stuff is more of an issue than the car living outside. My neighbors and I watch each others backs like hawks, if anything happens at the ranch while I'm not around my phone will be ringing off the preverbal hook. Likewise, if I see something strange going on in the hood, I put my boots on and go check it out. Must be in an apartment complex where everyone "minds their own business" a pity really.

Buy a camera and take and post some pics, we always love to see the cars we are talking about around here.

Air ride is too gushy for a sports car, I believe he has Ground Control or similar adjustable coils, as do I. Great job on the 240, just a thought, put an indicator light on those electric fans so you can tell that they are running/ getting power. Save the blown head gasket from overheating if they fail, voice of experience talking here. Just jump a red led with a resistor over the supply fuse or breaker, if the fuse blows the led will light up and let you know the cooling fans are kaput. BTW, take it to a shop and have them strip out the old tint (which is a PITA) and re tint the windows with the right shades of black or smoked tint to keep you legal and guaranteed. It’s well worth the money to let a pro do it, and it will look sharp and classy like it does now.

This is just a thought, but it could be the problem, I know it sounds stupid, but the stupid things are the ones that get missed every time. Here goes. The SU bowel vents are plumed to the stock air box outside the air filter. Check the vent plumbing to be sure this is the case, if you are getting manifold vacuum to the bowls it will idle bad and do all kinds of funky things through the RPM band like backfire through the carbs, exhaust, stall and restart etc. I know it sounds like an elementary mistake, because it is, but try just pulling the hoses off the bowels and see what happens, cant hurt, rite?

Two words..............."Truck Stop"....................Pre '74 cars have a diesel style filler neck as does any vehicle not covered by the unleaded gas federal mandate. Matter of fact, my Bobcat fuel cap and hydraulic reservoir cap both fit my '73Z.

Thats a problem, if you are showing 3/4 full (at full) and 1/4 full at empty you are only using 1/2 the gauge range over 100% of the sender range. Disconnect your gauge at the sender and see what it reads, should show empty. Next jump the gauge leads out at the sender, gauge should read full. this will basically test your gauge for function but not calibration.

Are you sure the tank is empty when you are showing 1/4 tank? Its not likely that the calibration is that far out at the gauge. If you are sure the tank is empty, add like 7 gallons of gas and see if the gauge reads 3/4 tank. If it does, bend the rod to evevate the float till the gauge reads a half tank and you should be good.

This is turning out to be a fowl thread.

First class would be a reliable source of cold Bud in the bottle, some good Tex-Mex and a bar tender that will be willing to tune into the Ravens-Browns game on the 4th. I aint hard to please. Still in the planing phase, we want to come out via I-40, and return across I-10 then up the blue ridge parkway, or I-95 if we have weather in the mountians. Should make for a nice 7 or 8 day road trip, with a cool place to law over in December. Gives me like 6 weeks to get things strait before going to the Head Shop convention in Vegas in Feb.

I've been talking with a long time friend, and if we can fit this into our work schedules, we may just pop in on this event. Being self employed, I know I can make it, but having driven cross country many times before, I don't think I want to go 1600+ miles (each way) without a capable co-pilot, considering my car is a 73, and hasn't been restored, just maintained.

Has your car been converted to a power steering rack?! Why would you put a damper on a manual steering rack for non off road use? If anything the car should steer easier. Put it on the shelf as a conversation piece.

I think you are reading a bit much into that. Vacuume drop perhaps?

Wa-WHAT? It's caled a "CROSOVER" because it "crosses over" the load. The transformer keeps the inductive load "stable" when highs and lows of music signal pass through the coils of the speakers. That little resistor you see on the back of the speaker is there to compensate for heat buildup in the coil of said speaker, in parallel, to provide for the reactive inbalance. If you take two 8 ohm inductive loads in parallel, they effectively form one inductive load of of under 4 ohms, depending on signal intensity and strength, not like a set of resistive loads which will devide themselves in half over the circut. If you place succesive inductive loads in series the resistance will degrade with each load as the magnitute of the power source deminishes through the previous load or device. This is the reason you can not wire unregulated alternators (AC generators) in parallel or series. The back feed voltages become circuit fatal to the individual devices over time. Of course all this depends on the intensity of the power generated, again we are talking 4 watts. We are however talking a 40 some odd year old radio that will be a PITA to replace. Buy the C/O and be happy.

I have a neighbor that has a racing lawnmower, I kid you not, it goes like 60 MPH. I built a gocart I see the crowd appeal, I see the novelty, I just don't see the challenge, for lack of a better term, in building a tire shreader. It's not that I'm getting too old, I'm as juvinial as the next 7th grader (at the ripe old age of 46) I don't want to come off as a butt head, but really, it seems ELEMENTRARY to put all that good power to waste. After all, he could be going fast through the twisties and pleasing himself, as apposed to doing doughnuts for the thrill of others. Yes or no?

It must be great to hit these parties in the zero rust states and have a bunch of S30's all in one place, the last time I went to a event like this in my neck of the woods the closest thing to my Z was a 300ZX. The HLS30 is a dynosaur in MD........................Extinct.....

Once again, the radio is designed to supply an INDUCTIVE LOAD. The crossover is an inductive load that modifies the output to support multiple inductive loads, they cost like $20.00 and are the size of a pack of cigarettes. Doing things rite the first time saves time and money, and in this case the original radio.