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The two threads are my fault. Mike hasn't seen my request to merge them, I guess. I agree with Zed Head, don't let your well meaning buddies fix the simple stuff, it does more harm than good in my experiences. Take off the valve cover and take some pictures, other thread , remove the plugs and take a picture of those as well. But like Fastwoman says pulling the dipstick is the easiest thing to do at this point.

Pictures are worth a thousand Zs. You see how a good picture gets results! Obviously you have a good camera, that's great, a lot can be observed from far away. When you are ready to post some go to MORE REPLY OPTIONS bottom right side of a reply Then CHOOSE FILE, you'll have to find the pic on your computer Then ATTACH THIS FILE, it'll take a second and show up at the bottom of the text box Then just click ADD TO POST, it's in blue Then hit ADD REPLY, or REVIEW POST

Good eyes/catch Steve, I didn't even notice that. It's Jai's picture from her gallery.

Looking at that plug wire boot, I'd guess it was leaking from that heater hose too. Nice and dry now. You could, most likely, use a new set of plugs. Have you taken one out yet? Maybe wire brush the ones you have. I think I see "BP", the right ones for our cars are BP6ES, gapped somewhere around .035.

How would I find a Baby Ruth in a pond???

Ouch! Yeah, very fun road. I'm on it now with my E31. Maybe you can find a deal on a cylinder head that's ready to bolt on. I found a fresh N42 at a machine shop. They had reworked it for a guy and he never came back so I got it for their cost, $250. I had to ask the folks on here if that was an okay deal, I had an N47 originally. Some of the replies were funny, "terrible head, boat anchor, better to melt down the aluminium and scrap it, BUT I'll take it off your hands and save you the headache".

Chevy Chase? Na na na na na.....na na na na na. Be the ball. Ha! I'm using my brain 1st then google, got it right too. I'm a real life Carl, according to my neighbors. You see, I live in a garage apartment with carpeted stairs. I'm not too particular about the carpet and I have a dog so I use my backpack blower and start at the top and blow it down and out the back door. My neighbors thought I started inside my apartment.

Get someone stoned and ask them to drive a right hand car, not knowing it was. That be hilarious. Duuuude, where's the steering wheel???

My next door neighbor is from Memphis. The funniest thing I notice about her and her parents are the way they say Memphis. I say MEMP phis, which isn't how they pronounce it. She says MEM PHUS.

It has a rubber o-ring under it for a seal, maybe it needs a shot WD-40 or something around it? Mine came off by tapping a little on each ear until it became unlocked, about 1/2 of an inch maybe, not much though. Zip-tie that o-ring to the lock nut or you may lose it, I did. Looking back at your clear filter pics, I don't think it's that bad. Just a lot of varnish and some small particles. maybe after a couple of tank fulls it'll all break loose and get trapped in the G3. If you clamp the hose coming out of the tank, needle nosed Vise-Grips with short pieces of rubber over the jaws to keep from damaging your fuel hose works good, you can swap out filters with fuel in the tank. I'd bet your sending unit can be saved, it's probably just stuck from the old gas. Good luck.

That 8 ball's groovy man.

It could be a stopped up exhaust not flowing properly, causing the hotter tunnel. Not too sure how to test that though. Mine pushes a fair amount of air out the rear tailpipe, not a whole lot but you can feel it blowing.

Test google.com? I have one shirt with a collar and a couple of buttons, I'll bring it so you won't be embarrassed, I usually wear tank tops.

Oil plus water/coolant equals tan. Not good. I would loosen the bolts on the valve cover and pull it off. Take some pictures of what's under there. We can 'splain the upload procedure.

Two tricks for the forum it took me forever to figure out. First helpful tip is click on the time and date under the last user to reply. That'll send you to the end without having to scroll through all the other replies. You probably know this already but it took me 2 years as this is my only forum participation. 2nd thing is click on VIEW NEW CONTENT, about 3/4s to the right up top. Hope it helps. .

We have to go to Beale Street, maybe Saturday night? BB King's club is there and my t-shirt is long gone. Why do girls take my t-shirts?

It's an old commercial they (Memphians) make fun of according to google.com "get dope out your vein and hope in your brain"

I may have stepped out of line starting a thread for you, sorry. Here it is, http://www.classiczcars.com/topic/51639-redwing-nice-young-woman-needs-our-help/ Good info already on there, we're jumping at the chance to help.

Here's a start, http://staxmuseum.com/ then down Highway 61. One of my favorite movies, O Brother, Where Art Thou had the Crossroads where they picked up Tommy Johnson. I'd love to see some of that Highway's Juke Joints. maybe we could hit the blues bars and drink PBR one night then do the breweries and drink the good stuff the next day. Janis Joplin's song "what good can drinkin' do" I went to Graceland back in the 80s. I've heard now it's like a circus or something. All this other stuff to make money, not much about Elvis was added.

I've got a Mexican Orange 240, favorite car of my life.

I don't know if you saw about the coolant drip so I'll put it here. "If it's leaking coolant above the spark plug at the rear, that's #6, you may have a cylinder head gasket leaking. You could very carefully re torque the head bolts and maybe stop it but if you have to have the head gasket replaced, that is a major job unless you're a mechanic, a shade tree mechanic even." If it's leaking above the plug, it's coming out from under the valve cover gasket. Is it coolant or oil?

Please don't get mad at me for starting this thread, I'm just trying to help. Redwing, on 10 Jun 2015 - 10:36 AM, said: Redwing, on 09 Jun 2015 - 09:01 AM, said:

Fastwoman sent you a private message, look under your username on the left side MESSENGER & NOTIFICATIONS She can fix global warming.

The one I bought from Nissan was for my 240. I checked MSA and they're no longer available for the '77 & '78s. Maybe you can get yours working if it's stuck.

Look under the back mat by the spare and you'll see a circle with 2 screws, remove it and you'll see the sending unit under there. Short the 2 wires together by connecting the post together with a small wire, your gauge should peg out at FULL if the gauge is working. You can take a screwdriver and hammer and knock the locking ring hold down loose and twist it off, then carefully work the sending unit out. Pull all the way up until the float is at the top of the tank then lay the sending unit horizontal and the float will come out. Be extra careful with it though as it has some fine wires that the float sweeper contact rub against. It may just be stuck, squirt it with carb cleaner and try moving the contact.