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This is after the yellow chromate I dipped the bolts for 25 seconds and the washers for 20 seconds Then I lightly rinse with a spray bottle. If you get too aggressive you can rinse the chromate off. Shake the excess off. If it puddles and beads it will make dark spots. For things that really matter I dry them with light compressed air to keep them even...

@Namerow this is todays effort, more skid steer bolts started with some bolts with surface rust bead blasted Lightly buff them against a wire brush on the grinder. If you use too much pressure it gouges and scratches the part up. If the pressure is light it makes them shiny. Into the crock pot with SP degreaser. RINSE Then I dip them in Muriatic acid for a pickle dip for 20-30 seconds. They pretty much quit fizzing when I pull them out. RINSE After plating 30 minutes at the calculated .15 amps/in This is a second batch plated for 30 minutes. I ran these a little higher to try to burn them a little bit RINSE I bought some blue chromate a few weeks ago. This is what it does. I intentionally dipped them only part way to illustrate the affect This is a 60 second dip in blue chromate Then I let them hang until dry

This is some of the hardware I plated last week These large bushings and washers came out really good too... This hinge plate is a little dark but isn't burnt on the top edge like the picture makes it appear This bar came out really good. Obviously some of these parts are not Z parts. They are off the skid steer I'm working on...

I believe the dimmer has just 2 wires, correct? If so unplug and stick a jumper wire across it. If the fuse blows it's not in the dimmer. If the fuse holds and the dash lights are on and all the way up, the dimmer is bad...

I'm not sure she's the only one...

I doubt it is the dimmer, some where down stream of there...

Can't upload pics. Tried a work around but it posted an empty reply...

I missed that earlier... You could figure out the connections to jump at the combo switch plug and just bypass the combo switch with jumper wires. that would isolate the combo switch...

It will happen because the government wants the band width for other things. That is how we got digital broadcast tv. They sold the old TV frequencies to companies for other uses...

I believe you have a short somewhere! If it was mine I would unplug all the exterior lights and anything else I could get off the circuit. See if the fuse will hold then. Add one thing back at a time until you figure out where the short is. You could also change some of the exterior bulbs to LED. This circuit has a lot of load compared to the wire gauge Dave Irwins parking light relays will help once you find the problem

Congrats. Lower those scores and put some miles on that car...

Would love to make Toronto but it's not going to happen this year...

I may have found a solution for you...

I agree, I would resweat the pickup line in or use a sealant. It seemed to work pretty well as you didn't seem to have symptoms from the original patch. Clean tanks are getting harder to find...

I think I made some real progress on this last weekend. I will try to do some samples and make some good pictures and I will elaborate on my technique...

Of Course!

Even if I work it out you are always most welcome here!!!

@Diseazd @siteunseen I was looking on classic auto trader the other night. I was blown away by what people were listing cars for. Site I am sure you are under insured and Guy knowing the condition of your cars you are probably close to $10k per car short of where prices seem to be or will be shortly...

I like the grey Z you show first The original 918 is nice too I really like the GTR color and we saw one in Memphis painted that color. It looked really good... The Aston Martin color is cool too. The last two have a lot of metal flake in them. If you decide to do them get someone with experience to shoot the finish paint. It can be tricky to lay down metallic evenly and without blushing and the paint is expensive!

Thanks, Chuck A previous owner did a hack job on the harness. No telling what's been "improved"...

I will print this and try to run the tests on Saturday and report back...

I agree with Zup, the Z can be repaired but it would require a really good frame man and the title will most likely be branded "salvage". It's unfortunate but this car has probably seen it's day unless you are really motivated to fix her...

No! I thought I remembered something like that. I thought the seller should have taken that offer and run to the bank...

So sorry! I hope they make it right...