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Thanks for that info CO. 👍

After looking at some '73 240Zs on BaT, and your supporting info, I have to agree that you are correct. Also I noticed that "thick flange" one also has an extra fitting hole on the front, to the left of the temp sensor hole, that does not exist on the early thin flange housing. On my 1/70 that fitting hole has been plugged. Anyone know what it should plumbed to on a '73? Here's a pic of mine, fitting hole circled in red.

I just noticed something related to the early vs later thermostat housing thing. The water outlet that bolts to the top of the housing, also has early and later versions. This pic is of my 1/70 car, with the water outlet from my 7/70 car sitting loose to the left. The early version has an extra tapped hole, circled in red, that I assume is to mount the bracket for the spark plug leads retainer. I noticed this when changing back to my 55 year old OE Yazaki date coded leads. I'm putting these on for car show season. Lol. I also noticed that my early car is missing the bracket that should go into the tapped hole. @zKars would you happen to have one? 🙂 Here's a pic of my 1/70 before I changed the spark plug leads. If you zoom in, you can see the tapped hole and no support bracket. And here is a pic of my 7/70 car before I took it apart for the resto. If you zoom in you can see the bracket, and no extra tapped hole in the water outlet. FYI, my 7/70 car is where the OE spark plug leads came from. Just for fun, here's a pic of my 1/70 (#957) with the 1970 date coded leads. If you zoom in, you can see the markings, sadly they are starting to fade. They do look much better being black. 🙂

FWIW, here what the 1970, 1971 & 1972 owners manuals show. We all know how accurate they are. Lol Fom = From. Lol

Here is a good discussion about hazard light switches. @zKars identified three versions, thanks for the pic. My #957 car has the one on the left that reads flash ,and my #6521 car (7/70) has the double triangle one, although some have told me that one is not correct for a mid 1970 car.

I like collecting this stuff. A few years back, a friend grabbed this old Nissan bag for me, from the Portland swap meet.

Very cool. When I picked up #957 last year it came with a great collection of Zed memorabilia that included the French version of your Canadian Brochure. No English on it at all, definitely for the Quebec market. I have posted this somewhere else, but I thought I should add it here as well.

I have one of each type, this one is from #6521, 7/70 And this one is on #957, 1/70. Hard to get a good pic when it's still installed. Both have the Hitachi logo.

You're welcome. 🙂 Weekends like this remind me that our cars are meant to be driven.

Went on my first road trip of the year with my BC Z club friends. About a dozen of us left from the Vancouver area, I joined from Chilliwack and we made our way to the BC Okanagan. Our original plan was to take the Coquihalla Highway to Kelowna, but a large sinkhole closed that route. We ended up taking the more scenic Hope-Princton Highway. For me it was a 436 mile (700km) return trip. My1970 Zed performed flawlessly, even in high mountain terrain and temperatures in the mid 30's C, (93 F), Our first stop was in Princton, for fuel, and to meet up with a few more Z club members. Here's a pic of a few of us in Princton. Our end destination was Kelowna, where Kelowna Nissan generously us hosted for a welcome event. They put on a great BBQ and offered up some Nissan swag. With other club members that met up with us along the way, there was close to twenty Zeds. The Zed to the left of me is fellow forum member @Chickenman, with his 1976 280Z. Thanks Richard, for the "way home" route ideas. The next morning, quite a few had decided to stay an extra day and enjoy the awesome wineries in the surrounding area. I and others, make the trek back, with most taking the faster, more direct Coquihalla route, as sink hole repairs had been made. I like to take the road less travelled, so I did a solo drive on a longer but more scenic route. This route included highway 5A from Merritt to Princton, that runs beside a seemingly endless series of beautiful lakes. Another bonus was that I was almost the only car on the road, with that route. 🙂 All in all, it was a great weekend. I'm looking forward to the next road trip.😎

On my 7/70 #6521, it is there like your picture. But on my Jan '70, #957, the tapped hole in the firewall does not exist and that ground wire is attached to the battery hold down frame mounting screw. Hmmm, After looking at some early cars on BaT I think my car had some work done in that area and the hole got filled in? Here are a couple of images and links to BaT: #00391 And #00512 https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1970-datsun-240z-38/

If this one is "not bad", it makes me wonder what it takes to be good, in your opinion. Lol

Good topic. My thinking is that it's better to go in a few incremental steps, going front to back. This method minimizes subjecting the jack stands to axial (horizontal) loads. The rating on jack stands in only for pure vertical loads.

I just checked the wiring harness from #6521 and it does not have the extra wire that @motorman7 was asking about. I also pulled out the antenna that I had installed in that car back in 1980. I got it from my local Datsun Dealer, all they could get was one for an early 280Z. That one has two power wires plus a ground wire. I didn't use the ground wire and just let it ground by the mounting bracket. Here's a pic. I also have a spare one from the lot of parts that came with #957. It has only the two power wires, no ground wire. Here's a couple of pics of my wiring harness from #6521, without the ground wire, with both antennas and the speaker.

Here are a few pics to help make @Namerow 's point.

Here are some pics showing exactly what areas I had the paint protection film applied to, in some of the pics you have to squint to see it. It actually goes 21" up the hood, which makes it about 5" past the headlight scoops where it goes over the fenders. I'm ready for my first road trip of the year, in two weeks. My Zed club is doing a weekend run to Kelowna and surrounding towns in the Okanagan. 😎

I just went over to the shop that applied the paint protection film and Clearplex windshield film to my Zed. It looks great. He will keep it overnight so that the film can fully cure and them give it a once over before I pick it up tomorrow afternoon. Here's a preview. I'm already for some road trips this summer. 😎

That is the sound deadening material, AKA "tar mat", that was factory applied to the floors by Nissan. Unfortunately they applied it to bare metal. It is safe to remove, search "tar mat removal" on this site, and you find lots of ideas. Like using dry ice. If you plan to replace the tar mats later, and want close to original, see our downloads area, in the cad files section, I posted some tar mat templates there.

Or you could go this way and order a complete repo body assembly. Lol www.alibaba.comAftermarket 1970-1974-1978 Ni-ssan Datsun 240z 260z 280z...Aftermarket 1970-1974-1978 Ni-ssan Datsun 240z 260z 280z Car Body Shell Cab Car Body Parts,Datsun 240z Car Body Shell - Buy Nissan 240z Car Body Shell nissan 240z Shell nissan 240z Body nissan 240z...

You're welcome. I'm glad that my sketch was useful. And great work on the parts. Regarding the "unprofitable time" to make them, the $/hour rate you made is more than offset by the priceless feeling of accomplishment. Unless of course you don't have a day job. Lol

I was quoted C$240 for the windshield film, installed. This was on top of the paint protection film work. Very reasonable.

I'm only considering this to give some protection for my brand new OE windshield. I won't normally be driving in the rain so I'm not worried about the wipers scratching the film. Even if I have to replace it in a few years I will have a little peace of mind when I go on road trips.

In addition to paint protection film, I'm going to have windshield protection film applied on #957. Has anyone tried a product called Clearplex for windshields? My installer recommends it. He has done both of my Audis in the past, but only PPF. Madico, Inc.ClearPlex: Ultimate Windshield Protection FilmSafeguard your windshield with ClearPlex Classic and Contour, the optically clear film that protects against rock chips, debris, and UV rays while maintaining visibility and safety.

You're welcome. This is strange indeed. The images I posted came from a parts book CD I purchased from Courtesy Nissan about 15 years ago. When I picked up #957 last year it came with a two volume original 1970 FSM set. The body and chassis volume is dated November 1, 1969. Strangely the L20A, L24 engine volume is not dated, but it does show the early version of the EE-71 diagram with only one condenser and no mention of other engine electrical condensers. With #957 I also got one of the 1997 reprints (for the N.A. Vintage Zed program) of a 1970 FSM as a single volume. Even that one shows only the one condenser in the EE section.