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I guess it's a clearcoat with (experiment it) 10% gold paint in it? What i wanted to say is the inner "4 point star" of the rim isn't original black it's a sort of blue-ish dark grey.. As i'm also restoring 2 sets of these wheels i will follow this topic! I still have to find out the paintnumber of those wheels.. I do have some wheels with the blue-ish grey on them..

🤣 See #630 the one with the pic of the glass he wants! (SO.. i'm not the only one that doesn't read it all! 😉

I wonder if the Americans say Magnesum to magnesium.. hihi, like they say Aluminum to aluminium? It's in proper english on that sticker.. Btw.. years ago i had some magnesium wheels, they sat on a 240z and i gave them away with the warning that i don't trust old magnesium wheels as they can break much to easy when old..

When i take a look at your pic from the screws.. i think they have some alu paint on the heads, You can imagine that if the screws thread was aluminum (aluminium 😐), it would be distroyed by the first attempt to fasten it. About the glass, If you take out the foam of the stainless framework, does it become easy to lift/lower the glass? Maybe needs some sort of grease? i don't know.. (Also be aware that you have to adjust the ss. frame to the car door opening.)

Really? I Can't believe that.. test if a magnet picks them up.. I thought they are stainless.. (Also not magnetic most of the times..) Alu screws would get destroyed by the first attempt to torc them.

Yeah.. i guess you better coat them with ceramic It solves both problems , it is a bit expensive but you get as a bonus a beautiful header back! You mean that thing under the hood with the brakelight connector and 4 brakelines? That gives a signal when there is brake unbalance? If no one has one i think i can restore you one and send it to you. (Note that spareparts are expensive overhere.. as it is a small part the shipping should not be to awful.. Also at the moment i'm slower than a snail..)

Happy newyear to you all! Hope to finish my already 1000km driven 280zx.. only the engineroom needed to be done as i left it in during the resto.. So painting the engineroom and put back in the as new looking engine with only 120000 km from new.. I almost sold my 240z after 25 years and i doubt that i will restore it again.. we'll see.. And maybe the 300zxtt has to go for a 370z.. OR.. i get myself a 370z and keep e'm all HAHAHA... 🙈

Yes it makes a big difference! Are they all JIS now? (I wonder why they don't have a dimple implying they are JIS screwhheads?) Hihi.. you had a screwed up screwhead inthere! 😁 All is still perfect work.. go on! 😉 @Mike Isn't there a better Emoji set for this forum? I see much better ones on let's say whatt's app? The ones on now are so damn small and not very clear.. (Just a question, Mike..)

If not on the bill, they are the old ones.. i also thought of the fact that they are directional.. but i guess your machineshop knows this.. the springs have a top and a bottom.. (But when i hear that a timing sprocket came off (WOW!!! 🤨 ) after a machineshop rebuilt.. i guess this machineshop is not the best??)

btw.. use a sharp chisel (woodchisel) to open up the oilfilter (Near the connecting end) do not use a hacksaw, Hihi.. as they make lots of metalflakes.. first woodchisel, then scissors can be used.

Any engine that's started cold makes these noises, that's normal as there is in the first 3-5 seconds no oil between the moving parts in the head. But i guess you know this.. Why are you using racing oil? Get a good 15 or 20W40 or 50 and test. Maybe a enginecleaner to the old oil, let it run warm and put some new oil in. Take a good look at the old oil.. no metal flakes or so? And open up the oilfilter and look for metal parts.. Maybe this engine wasn't very well put together when it had a rebuild i don't know.. Guess you now can find out what i always wanted to know.. does the oil flow from the inside to the outside in the oilfilter or visaversa? 🙂

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Btw.. well done! Nice RACK !! 🤣 Have you tested that they are long enough when streering to one side max? They seem to have less length? My question.. what's a PSA, what does it stand for here..? A head's up? i guess? (You Ami's like abriviations! 😉 )

Hi, I'm not hearing a lot.. (I got near perfect hearing) Maybe you could put the microphone on different spots in the engineroom and take a bit longer video. Have you used the "screwdriver against your ear" method? You take a long screwdriver, put it somewhere on the engine and hold your ear against the handle top.. The things you can hear! It's amazing.. It's oilpressure related.. i agree, maybe test a 20w40 oil is your using 10w40? I looked up tempe and your living in a hot state.. I would use 15 or 20w40 or 20w50 oil.

Hihi.. It has ALL to do with what you are used to.. I worked with studer revox studio equipment, audio machinery worth sometimes over a million Swiss Franks.. For example, and i said it before .. I was in the factory in Switserland, they make capstan axles* on 1/1000 of a mm! After they made them on some special lath they are stored for a year! Then they get measured on a special bench and if they are out of tolerance they get scrapped! That's SWISS engineering! I've seen there recorders for studios they where expensive, well over 1 million swiss Franks.. Also mixers that were over 4 meters wide.. (13 feet). Capstan axles = are those axles in a taperecorder or other tape machine like a cassetterecorder that give the speed to the tape.. (Also the pinchroller pushes the tape against this axle.)

Let me just say: ....... I'm going a bit crazy...... I will NEVER understand what the americans have with those inches, 1/4 1/8 3/32 pfff... (sigh) Why not mm it's metric it's simple!! What do you mean with: it's only 1.260 thick ... to me that's A LOT more than 0.140 ???? and.. " means inches.. Right?? Oh man... am i glad i only had to learn about meters and mm cm Km Mm (I just invented the Mega Meter! 😉 ) Forgive me for getting so annoying!! (I think it's sad that the change to metric was so difficult to do, i believe the canadians did this better? They have Km not miles for example?) (Btw.. you guys also use a point were we use a comma.. and visa versa... does also complicate things so 1,230 are twelfhundred and thirty items.. (to you ) but overhere that's one and twentythree hundreds of a item.. 1.230 are twelfhundredand thirty items of something.) I always think of the guy in europe that ordered a boat in the USA.. he thought that he would get a big boat (in meters) but got one in feet! 🙈

Correct me if i'm wrong please but... a shim of 0,003 inch is 0,0762 mm! I NEVER seen a shim that thin! Are you sure?? I know that the right spot on the gears for all that raw power💪 is important but 0,003 inch?? or 0,07mm ??? If it is.. i would make some more space for a fatter ring/shim.

Your talking about the future??? You meant 2014?

WOW! If you would drive that car in that state overhere.. you.. (your car) end(s) up in the press and would be seen never again! Every car gets a checkup every year* overhere.. when you have a rustbucket, you can forget to drive it.. not a meter! (about 3 feet? 🤣) But since a few years our country has a new rule about cars older then 50 years.. they don't need any check! So.. i think that's also crazy! * Also cars of 30 years and older (till 50) only need to get a APK (check) every 2 years. APK= algemene periodieke keuring = general periodic inspection.

My spellingschecker always gives a lot of wrong spelling when i'm on this site! .. I wonder why? 🤣

Nice job! As this is part 3... there are gonna be some 10-15 parts i guess? Very nice recordings of the work. The "leading" you (he) uses is this soldering tin like 40/60? made of lead and tin? i always wanted to know what is what? 40% lead and 60% tin? or the other way around so, 60% lead and 40% tin? Who can tell me this? Or is it pure lead, i don't think so because that's to soft.. I have seen restorers use the leading technic and it's a very good way to finish sheetmetall like that hoodedge. Well Done!!

I always appreciated the 2+2 as a tall guy well over 6 feet i appreciate the rooooom... in the car! Are you sure? It should be in the chassis-service manual in the electronics section.. otherwise it should be somewhere on the internet i think. I can't help you as i don't have a clarion of that type. (The one with the fuse is the 12v+ i guess.. and with a ohm-meter you can find out the rest? 🙂)

I would use that.. just use some soapy water to install it.. One day you want to sell the car, it would be bad if it wasn't original..

Yeah.. and always Hitachi's.. I never saw a Clarion in that configuration with AM and FM and the antenna switch like that. Oh well, MH77280z, congrat's with your buy!

I'm confused now.. I was always told that in a 240z there was a Hitachi.. The people that told me that were always from the USA.. Then i always said: We overhere in the Netherlands (EU) have had always the Clarion brand, So there were also Clarions in old datsuns in the USA? That's a first! 👍