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Remembers me of a drive we had in the carclub ones.. someone had a leak and what could be done... haha the solution is a ripe banana! You can stop a radiator leak with a ripe banana.. You just have to peel it and stuff the banana into the spot where the leak is! It wil get dry and hard and stops the leak, fill up and finish your drive.. Haha later on, weeks later.. i heard he still drove around with a banana in his radiator!! 🤣

On my first place.... can i jack it up on all 4 corners with the original scissorjack (on the RIGHT) spot!) without distroying the chassis? 4 speed or 5 speed.. or automatic... i would throw in a 5 speed anyway! a Fs5c71a or b Or a Fs5w71b from the zx.. Don't forget the diff..

Euro spec cars are ofcourse much less sold and much more rare.. They most of the time rusted away.. Most 240z you see in europe now are imports from California or another dry state. (directly identified by the (in my eyes "only making the car heavyer") bumperettes!) I know that in the Netherlands around 240 cars 240z's were sold! They costed around 20000 guilders, to compare you could drive almost 4! Ford taunus from that money!!!!! (No not Taurus we had the TauNUS.. Made in Germany) The portugese version was like all euro versions i guess.. ?? One exception i know of.. I know that a France version at some time had no reverse (white) lights and therefore had only half red/half orange lights at the rear.. (Very special.. i know because quite coincidentally i have a set of those on shelf.)

Hello UM240, I (could be wrong but i) had a 240z 1972 in the early nineties (orig. dutch car) that was to far gone and till today i use it's Fs5C71a (EDIT: Fs5C71B !!) Gearbox in my (also like you red US.) 240z! At first i tested this with the original diff from the 4 speed but you can better install the original to the 5 speed gearbox differential.. otherwise your first gear gets a bit lòòòònngg.. and it's bad for your clutch.. (The end speed of first gear is to high) About the driving on the "autobahn" I drove the 240z with that gearbox with standard original engine, no restore or extra stuff at 210 km/hour.. a lot of shaking going on but it went that fast haha! Faster was my 300zxtt it did 265 km/hour on the autobahn! Hihi The fastest was my fireblade at ~295km/hour.. (i could not exactly read the tacho as i was laying flat on it.)🤣 EDIT ! : I made a mistake.. I use a Fs5C71B out of my 1972 euro 240z (Orig delivered in the Netherlands in 1972) So not the Fs5C71a

Thanks Terrapin Z , for that list. (Zed Head, i was more referring to the 280zx that has more different types.. ( also the 280z was never delivered to europe, i don't know them well..)) Now i know i have a reserve on the shelf for my 280zx but don't know if it will work.. (my '79 has p7100?? or p 7801??) and the reserve unit i got has 22611-P8601 and.. i don't see that one in the list!! haha.. there must be another list for euro cars or so ??? (I don't know out what 280zx this reserve came.)

But not interchangeable.. This is a early type of .. i call them analog computer units.. (as it's NOT a ECU as we know them in modern cars. This unit has no clocktiming or microprocessor in it.) NEVER just change your unit with just another one because the connections are different.. see the sticker on later ZX units for further information. These units were made for about 8 years and there are many different types.. (only for the 280zx there were 4 different HP engines and therefore i guess also at least 4 different ECCS units..) ECCS = Electronic Concentrated engine Control System.

A good and sheap restauration is possible in Poland.. There are good shops with low labor costs.. An example i've seen was a sort of army jeep resto by a firm called Marian (No girls name it's the firm name..) It was done for michael Manousakis (Yes a greek living in Germany for almost or all his life.) It was in a television show called "the steelbuddies" in German TV. Here a video of that firm.. There must be (somewhere) a video about the restauration of a Ford Mutt for around 14000 euro's, an open sort of jeep.. Rundgang Fort Marian in Polen, Außenlager der Steel Buddies - YouTube

I got no idea what you mean by that.. sorry.. English is my second lang... But anyway... The datsun 240z was 1 DAY!! for sale and seen over 1200 times and it's gone! 👍

I got almost all those parts 😆 Most valuable part seems to be a new nos radiator ive got in it's original box! But sending it to the US is going to be a even more expensive hobby... The last time i checked these were around 4-500 euro a piece..pfff... IF you can get one overhere.. I once sended jim (Z-up) a new mid-part original 240z exhaust and the transport was about 350 dollar iirc. 🙈

I need a very small gear thats in this clock, a white gear of about 12-15 teeth that was crumbled to peaces in this 280zx 1979 clock.. I got two of these with the same problem, Does anyone have these gears?

I got them from a german?/swedish? company (Würth?) lying in the pile of parts on my attic... dust on them from 30! years of lying.. Just Maybe... i'm gonna use them on my own old 240z with build in glasfiber ( terrible ) rear fenderflares.

There's a link in the first post were you can see the whole car.. It's a nice car but.. i've seen some Dutch 240z cars and they were all rustbuckets due to the weather here.. moist and salty.. It's better for cars to stay in.. in the winter in the Netherlands.

Bingo !! After the rotten away wheelhousing they welded in a non original one! It's not round like the front one.. The lip is wrong also.. Congrets! Jim! Evidently much to square! In this pic you can see the fault really clearly..

Strike 2! NOPE... Having no rear sidemarkers is standard in europe! Yeah.. i just was counting.. 6 hours earlyer so your first reaction was about quarter to 8... your not awake yet! 🤣 I saw the problem instantly.. it's big!!

NOW... concentrate on the shape... yes but this time the shapes on the 240z... Jim is looking into the garden.. 🙈 You meant the 3th shot.. hihi..

Nope.. ( I don't know if it's a original..) The thing thats wrong with the car is much bigger than a mirror.. Compare the side of the car with the side of your imaculate 240z car.. you'll see the big mistake!!

Today 7 March 2021 a 240z came up for sale on the dutch marketplace.. ( marktplaats.nl) At first glance a nice car ... but can you see whats totally wrong with it? The flashers are original euro/dutch as are the bumpers. (Wheels are 260z but look very good on it!) On this pic.. it's obvious that the car was (like almost any other original 240z once was) a rustbucket due to the Dutch weather) CAN YOU SPOT IT? Euro km Counter.. Only the seats are 260z? Here a link.. ≥ Datsun 240Z Nederlandse auto - Oldtimers - Marktplaats.nl

I once had a friend with also arthritis and stuff.. problems. He had alot of air tools that way he could tinker still on his S-class Mercedes..which was a big hobby of his. You could do that also. Me myself.. i just turned 60.. I've got so many problems (Heart, spine, knees, neck, tailbone, thyroid gland, hands etc..) i also have days that i don't do a thing.. Once a specialist sayd to me i had cancer.. than it went away.. after half a year or so i got it again.. went to Radboud (a very knowledgeable university hospital) again and again it was the same cancer.. (Just on another spot on my scul.. and.. it went away.. this came and went another 4 times over.. These last years i got a problem with my lymf nodes and told a specialist what kind of trouble i got.. and the answer was: Sorry but thats impossible! (I'm still angry about that stupid answer!!) At the end of the day you just have to think: there are people who have even worse problems... i do...

Hahaha.. i still do that! ( on local second hand marketplace..) but these last years not really much comes up.. It's been more than 5 years that i could buy some nice rare parts for z or zx.. Good (!) Parts are becoming rare and expensive .. I personally never had to persuade someone to sell me the part(s).. but thats because i only reacted on their adverts.. 🙂

Yes, they are the right points.. The many bad stories are because the middle steel plate that normally is in there has rotten away and the sides colapse easely.. That is not gona happen when you have restored your chassis well.. I totally agree (i already started the discussion with a smile on my face you know..) And your right, it's weight is low but it will get heavier. You know, when i see a car for sale and it's on a lift like that, i already don't trust the chassis.. It's probably rotten away inside..

Most people are thinking stop! (this discussion) but i keep saying this : those are NOT the official jack points of a (240z-280z) s30 chassis.. so use the right spots. Later on when you have a flat tire the chassis has to be strong enough to use a jack anyway! Use some rubber blocks with a slice in it for the chassis edge. It's gona be a beautiful car, good job!

At first you did this: And then desided to go original! Yep i like your wheel! You've done a good job on it! 👍

As you wil need a new steering wheel, you could also cut the aluminium part off with a grinder just don't touch the steel axle.. (stop just before the axle with cutting, then stick a flat screwdriver in it from the front and brake/crack the last part. (USE NO HAMMER 🙂 )

No one mentions the painters work? (who should be ashamed) In the first video (car exterior) on 1:22min. you can see 3! different colors of silver on the fenders and hood.. (Maybe the left fender is like the hood (if you look from another angle) the same but the right fender is much darker. as is the headlightbucket. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1978-datsun-280z-86/

I think you can better invite someone in than to go with a half a car to someone? Also.. if you can't get it off heat the thing with a hairblower and then you can ice the axle with cold spray, you can buy that in a can and spray the axle to minus 42 degrees Celsius.. (No i don't know Fahrenheit but it's very cold.. 😉 ) A paint burning heating gun would also work but dont make the cable in the axle (from the horn) to hot! I use a hairblower and shut the inlet with my hand a bit so it will give more hot air.. keep checking the hot air with your hands..