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Apollo 13 fix... Top of a push pen, metal maybe? Edit: if it's those little buttons under the brass plates you wouldn't want metal. It's been a long time since I fixed my combo switch. Look in the green circle.

And the top of the vale cover hose goes to the back of the air filter. WRONG INFO DELETED. 🤪 I think it's a connection for the air pump? I have forgotten and it's too cold to go look. I've plugged that nipple on the filter with a rubber stopper meant for a chair leg. Thank you for that tip @jfa.series1

best thing since sliced bread, bronze bushings instead of plastic. http://atlanticz.ca/zclub/techtips/shifterbushing/index.html

I'd bet he's being sarcastic with the Hagerty value? but I don't even know what "aficionados" means. I've always thought that was someone that knows all about, say cars, but doesn't know a spark plug from an O2 sensor.

My grocery store puts sails on their buggies. I can park across the street and come out to find an empty one against my car.

Good to hear from you! I learned a lot from your post, working on that 240 with socks on. 😄

This worked for mine.

I drank coffee from their Christmas gift cup this morning. Took a couple of years to get it properly seasoned.

I've never liked the way bat adds another minute when someone outbids the last guy. That's not the way auctions work in my opinion. So weird stuff I agree. Good on the winner, he let everyone know he wanted this car. No last minute games to play around with.

This is the best I found for silver, the radio. They use a chrome coating on some interior pieces too. The interior emblems that I painted on the horn pad and console were this "silver" oil based Sharpie I found a hobby shop. Thank you @psdenno for the proper direction you laid on me.

Try zcardepot.com

It's been $250K for a week maybe? They would have caught the typo. From what I've read this car has Nissan upgrades and there were only around 420 built. Better than stocks or gold. You can enjoy this investment.

I'd try and get that out, that could clog up something? Maybe an air gun off a compressor would blow them out. It's possibly old pieces of gaskets, maybe the valve cover gasket? Don't blow air down, try to shoot it to the driver's side away from the valves and rockers. Good luck!

Looks like mine. I think you are okay if your fingernail doesn't catch on the marks/lines. If you are going to clean the lobes I would suggest a green Scotch-Brite pad instead of steel wool. Steel wool will kind of disintegrate after use and leave steel wool fibers. Then you need Woolite.

A "duh statement" but don't forget a hose pipe in the radiator with the drain valve open. Tom monroe's book.

Steve types faster than me so this is another option... I would think you could pull the coil wire off, remove the spark plugs and get someone to crank it over while you observe the cam's oiling??? I used a drill on low speed with a rod down the distributor's hole when I put an N42 head that was converted over to a oilier cam on my 2.8 motor after a rebuild while it was on an engine stand.

I used a shop vac on the return hose to suck the coolant out of the heater core. My advice would be a good set of 1/4" drive sockets with at least a 10" extesion. Take the passenger's seat out then lay cushions over the door sill and the seat's mounting brackets. Then a bottle of ibuprofen or your preference. Just changing the valve and new hoses about killed me. Another thing with the shop vac is you can "pull a vacuum" on the brass core and check for leaks. 90% of coolant in the cabin is from the valve not a busted heater core.

Have you found the black hook that goes around the driver's side strut to hold the hatch deck up while you fiddle with the spare tire or whatever you're fiddling with? The '78s have a flat deck so that speaker panel will work. If I remember right the '75 and '76 models have the flat cover over the tail lights but are about 3" taller than the '78. @Jeff G 78 will know.

Look at the one MSA has. It's $10 cheaper and you could call and ask about the sloped deck fitment. I don't see how it would work on that deck. I have that deck too. thezstore.com P/n 40-3754

In Alabama we call siphoning a "Georgia gas card". In Georgia they call it "stealing gas". 😄

Learned something new today! Thanks Charles, I'd never seen one of those before.

I cranked my 240 and let it run in the garage long enough to open the thermostat and move the coolant back through the radiator. Also fresh gas in the float chambers. It's cold as ice down here, high today was supposed to be 45F but I never saw above 41. How in the name of God do you Northerners live life for half a year freezing? I only have to stay inside around 2 months if we're lucky.

They most likely sandblast or dip into a cleaner beforehand, like powder coating I'd think. Taking Mikes off and having them coated would be a job for a busy man, unlike myself. I'd suggest double stacking the manifold gasket, 2 gaskets can't hurt. My 6 to 1 on my 280 has a leak with felpro gasket. The 240 has Nissan metal around the exhaust ports but I've noticed a small amount of soot around #2 runner but no noise. 280 sounds like a diesel to my ears and I hate it but I'm sorta lazy so let it ride until I get older and even more lazy. The Nissan gasket is the ticket and I'm pretty sure they are still available from Nissan dealer parts department.