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:mad: Not good news, because I need one as well. The motor in mine runs fine, but the mast doesn't move. That's going to pose a problem.

You know what I meant... :laugh:

Well, I'm at a loss then. It sounds to me as though your car was always a manual transmission car, and there aren't enough extra wires for the harness to have been for an automatic, either.

Henry, I found the part numbers for the original stickers and tried to order them from the dealer. The numbers were still good, but none were found. I have considered seeing if a local sign shop could tool up for vinyl stickers that small. Haven't ever gotten around to it yet.

What ignition do you have? And is there a small relay attached to the left inner fender below the coil?

Yeah, but that doesn't explain the guy he out-bid. The dude has 200+ feedback but still bid $602. :stupid:I sure hope those same people need a gas tank, I've got one on eBay now, could use a few bidders like that.

Your car would look dang good with a set, Dave.

--- sigh! --- :surprised

Here's a related question - anyone know of a source for those odd little angled valve stems that the Appliance mesh wheels came with? The four wheels I found had only one stem in them.

I think it should. Aftermarket steering wheel hubs are the same for 70-83.

Also give some thought to the fact that a big bar in the rear on a car with an open diff can actually slow you down when autocrossing (or other hard cornering), as the bar tends to unload the inside rear tire in really hard cornering, making for lots of wheelspin. When I was autocrossing in my old 323i, I disconnected the rear bar for best times. Later I installed a limited slip and could then leave the bar hooked up.

Which also explains why I couldn't find them on the Parts CD. They are packing material. How interesting.Now to decide -- do I remove mine, as they should have been removed long ago? Or do I leave them on as curiosities?

Oh my yes, please don't include post numbers as part of the reputation formula. Sheer number of posts means nothing. Perhaps what I've been able to share has been helpful to some. But I'm continually shocked to see how many times I've posted in the almost 18 months I've been part of this site. Goodness, over 100 posts per month! Don't tell my wife or my boss!

Thank you Carl! I wasn't aware of that. Makes total sense. But it also makes me wonder what other prep steps the dealer that originally sold my car skipped!

Next question then - are there any un-used wires near the ignition coil?

My red '71 (7/71) is also effectively a stock, one owner car, and both of its hooks are like Enigma's right side. From the pictures I linked to earlier, looks like the left hook grew larger in '72.

I'm still leaning towards the possibility that either the car was originally an automatic, or that the engine wiring harness is from an automatic car. The wires look just like the pair of back wires with bullet connectors that my automatic car has, and I note in the picture that the metal clutch fluid line looks hand-bent, not like a factory line. Does your car have the rectangular clutch stop on the firewall as pictured?

Well, deciding how many to have could be difficult. Especially as the 'correct' answer may differ depending on when a particular 240Z was built. And I suspect lots of them are MIA by now. I looked through the gallery and found pictures that show no hooks, hooks on the one side or the other, and a few with hooks on both sides. Judging from my car - which is original all the way down to the 35 year-old spark plug wires, and unlikely to have had an second hook added - as well as a few pictures in the galley, I feel safe in saying that two rear hooks appears to be correct for late '71s, if not others as well. Early '71, Series 1 Late '71, Series 2 1972

Is or was your car by chance an automatic? I just remembered that there are a pair of wires that run down into the tunnel on automatics that connect to the kickdown switch (or whatever that switch is) on the transmission. When I converted my yellow car to a four speed, I tucked those two wires up along the harness and they ended right behind the washer tank.

I knew there was a reason I recalled seeing one on the left side - my car has two, one on each side!

Any updates, Mike? How's the project progressing?

True, but they come from the other direction. The ignition wires come from the harness after it crosses under the radiator. The wires for the washer pump and brake warning light come across the firewall.

Too much. But in my experience, that's normal for Midas, or any of the national chains. Unfortunately, if you've accepted their estimate and told them to do the work, there's probably nothing you can do at this time.

Motorsport has replacement masts in their catalog, I don't know if they are really available or not. I believe the tow hook on my '71 is on the left side. Don't have the car here at work to verify, though.

I wish I could say that this is a rare problem. But it's not. Lots of these poor cars have had their wiring "improved" by previous owners over the years. Unfortunately, many of these "improvements" appear to have been conceived by Cro-Magnon Man. Any way, BTDT. I'm sorry to say that new harnesses are not available. And every year of 240Z is different, so if you decide to attempt to find good used ones, you'll need to stay with harnesses from a '73 - the earlier harnesses are quite different in several ways. Here is a link to a thread that I posted some time back when I was working on this same issue in one of my cars. http://classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19793