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How recent was that?

I totally agree and I appreciate your effort in providing parts like this at Banzai. I also have to balance parts I need versus available cash to purchase them. Also being able to reproduce some of these thngs allows me to make hoses or parts for other projects, not just Z projects, but projects where these parts are not even available. It's a balancing act for me. A limited amount of money needs to be spread over the car. I need bumpers and don't want to try to make them. I also need hoses, but I "might" could make them if I have the raw material. The reproduction hoses actually cost more than the bumpers. When I need a windshield washer bag or a data tag, I would call you because it doesn't make sense to try to make one. Unfortunately these limitations is the world I live in

Are they tight from the very beginning or when they are halfway in? I found that the area around the locking pin had been deformed by over tightening and I had to use a flat file to make that section round again. If your pins are brand new, then sand the control arm holes until they go into each section easily. Don't try to slide them through all 3 sections at once. If they will go through each section easily then I would say that is the correct size. I greased all of this up, although I don't know that that is FSM correct but I wanted the corrosion protection the grease provided. It is also possible that the extra effort needed to remove the spindle pin sections damaged the bores on your suspension pieces. I wonder if a ream could be purchased to true up the bores for installation. Do you have a micrometer? What is the OD of the spindle pin?

Good cars or good Z cars?

I remove all of these from my cars when I restore them and then remount them when the paint is done. This one is mounted with 4 screws so pretty easy to make it right.

Yeah that was it but heat wasn't used. I might still try it. Have to find the hose stock first

They look like the jacket might be nylon. Looks like it might be too shiny. I have found some material that might work for vent hoses, another possibility for booster hose but nothing yet for the heater hose or radiator hoses. If I were going to buy a hose it would be the radiator hoses. VW's, old MB's, old Jags, BMW's and Ferrari's all used cloth covered hoses. So there are some options for sources but many like the Ferrari links are unreasonably priced

I think you will find a $1000 z to be well along to being a rusty pile of parts.

I'd seen that one but it is not the one I'm thinking of. The one I was thinking of was heating them in the oven at like 200F with internal wires to set the shape I don't really want to allocate that kind of money into hoses and if I could find the right material, I could make hoses for Cody's car too which are NLA

I know JDM parts sells braided hoses, but I would like to take a shot at making my own. I am having trouble finding cloth braided heater hose. Does anyone know of a source? Also there was a thread a good while back where someone was making hoses at home. I searched but couldn't find it.

Blue lock tite only!

It would be really interesting if there was a vendor like MSA @Joseph@TheZStore who would be interested in reproducing the wavy washers. Yours would make excellent models for a mold.

Excellent progress!

Would love to see pics! We like pics

How do you know you need one? I don't know what interchanges.

It may not have caught up but then again it may have. If he ends up looking for a fairly rare head, you can do a lot of welding for that. I have started seeing heads in the $600 range. I can get a lot of holes repaired for that kind of money. If it is just some erosion at the head surfaces that may be doable. If it's significant erosion inside the head, that is totally different.

I wonder if the low torque helps prevent warpage so the clutch engages smoothly

What do they mean by rotted out? Some of these heads can be salvaged but many people just don't want to try

The only one I saw on Car-part was $200, which I thought was a deal. If you can get a clean one for $400, I would think you are doing really well.

You will need a spindle pin puller!! When you do the rear wheel bearings it makes removing the lower control arms possible.

Contact Some of the vendors zcardepot or others. Google used 280z quarters for sale and contact some of the businesses listed

Nope, I don't think so. You would have to find a good donor. One of the vendors might have one

But it's fully painted, correct?

I suspected as much. The license plate panel actually goes all the way to the bottom. It's one piece. There are about 50 spot welds but you have already done about half of them. It is a much more invisible repair if you just do the whole panel and get a donor from a wrecking yard

It makes a better repair to just drill out the spot welds and get the whole panel, my 2 cents