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They mistook "Man in black" for man is black!!! Lost in translation.

Thanks Mark! I've been looking over some pictures and noticed the timing chain plunger is completely compressed except for the rubber washer between the plunger and it's housing so that makes me feel a lot better. The guides had the adjustable holes and I did use the closet holes to the chain so that is another factor in the tightness. Plus no grooves are worn in yet so... Just a worrying kind of guy, damn it!

Finally, no leaks! Now I can stress on the carbs. If someone could answer a couple of questions, I'll sleep like a baby tonight. 1st is my timing chain. Super tight but the whole motor seems tight as well so I guess I'm just overthinking? 2nd is the motor is really tight! It turns smoothly by hand using an 8" socket wrench with the 27mm socket, overthinking again? Spark plugs are out. All new parts, timing kit, bearings and chrome faced moly rings. Honestly I just don't remember the 2.8 I built being this tight. But I keep telling myself, before I bought a remote starter, the motors were pretty tough to move when I adjusted the valves. I remember using a 36" piece of pipe on the crank bolt as a cheater bar and so I could turn it from the top side. Thanks for any confidence building advice or just put it in and crank it, it'll loosen up. Cliff

I admire his techniques as much as the drug dealers selling poison. He really sticks it to the poor guys living outside the States.

What a neat story. I am one of those kids too except I pitched a fit and ended up with the model but my Dad wouldn't let me play with it. He put up on the "top shelf" thank goodness or I would have destroyed it.

Yes, it's methanol they're looking for. You can get it at auto parts stores or quick shops in a de-icer type washer fluid. I live at the south end of the Appalachian Mountains. It's easier getting heroin than moonshine for young guys here. The older guys that get moonshine don't fool with the young idiot kids. I have a HALF of a bottle in my fridge now. An 8 oz glass puts me to sleep better than anything in the world! My Dad gets it from one of his buddies. Comes in a name brand liquor bottle so you don't get in trouble. Mine is in a Wild Turkey 101 bottle this time. It's more like Wild Turkey 180 though.

Kids around here are mixing de-icer/windshield cleaner with Mountain Dew and drinking it! Methanol is what they want to get stupid so they won't fail drug testing. They're dropping like flies though, it's very poisonous. Kids do the darndest things to avoid failing a drug test. Legalize it and they'll quit this stupid sh#t. Soda brains? No brains!

It tuck a few weaks but I finully got it tawked down to sex pounds. Thanks to Mr Waana for his add vice.

I know the zx fans are closer to the radiator but have an extra blade. I tried putting a zx fan on my 240 and with the ac pulleys it hit the radiator. I think the zx fans mount to the clutch in the back instead of the front like 240s thru 280zs putting them closer to the radiator. Ive removed the a/c so I'm hoping I can run the 5 blade zx fan now. I'll know in a week or so when I get the motor back in. Previously I had a 280 3 row with a zx full shroud on my '72 240. Greatly reduced the temp. Also I will attach a belly pan on there somehow as it doesn't have one now. I have one off a 280z but will have to drill different holes to work on the 240. My expirence so far.

I'd like to think the face of the bigger valves would hold more fluid for testing. But that's just my simple mindedness way of thinking, I'm no machinist.

71!! You are my new hero. I did one when I somewhere around 41. Stayed in bed flat on my back for a whole weekend!

Sociopaths don't understand negative.

Read the recently updated thread "uneven oil pressure". I think you'll never be happy with that motor.

Sorry for your misfortune. I'm grateful for folks like you that share this scam artist's misdeeds. He's a crook and will answer for it someday, somehow.

Both my 240s have metal sliding ashtray covers. They are '72s though. I do have a cover like that over my fuse block. Sorry, but I learned something so thank you. 8^)

Fortunately we won't remember how bad it is and how often it happens.

It's cast aluminum isn't it? I wonder if you could have it welded from underneath somehow.

This was $15,300 with 35 bids, now it's $11,350 with 33. Sleaze e-bay.

I put "runs like a scolded dog" in google.com and it says, "Did you mean scalded dog". " This saying originated back when people used to cook, can, and preserve food outside, and occasionally a hungry dog that was sniffing around for scraps would get some boiling water spilled on it accidentally, or as I’m ashamed to admit, on purpose, by some impatient or mean human who wanted the animal out from underfoot."

That's a good analogy, they run so fast their rear ends drop closer to the ground. I think it's probably "scolded dog" but I've always heard scalded too. Anyway, congratulations from the Peanut Gallery.

1/2" PEX elbow is what I used in a similar tight spot. FWIW

Mine has some rust but a $5,000 paint job would make it just like this one, getting high bids with two days left. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Datsun-Z-Series-DATSUN-RARE-240-Z-SURVIVOR-CALIFORNIA-CAR-ORIGINAL-/381560716417?forcerrptr=true&hash=item58d6ca7c81:g:gc0AAOSwZ8ZW2Mxz&item=381560716417&rmvSB=true Charles thank you for that information! It's a solid #4, $7,000 car and the Alabama Indy Race at Barber's is April 22 thru 24. A lot of traffic through here to the track by Highway 411, two blocks from my house. There's my plan! Oh yeah, here's the wheels that came with it. I've got the scallops on there now like the bottom image.

I disconnected my '77's under the passenger's seat. Works when the E-brake is pulled only, like The Good Captain says.

Two guys I look to for inspiration, suffering the same as me, vicariously getting our Z fix through a computer screen. When you find that "energy", let me know what to ask for. I'm not cool anymore.

When Momma's happy, everybody is happy! Great ending thanks to the forum. Rob, hat's off to you for the ecu.