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on the way home i kind of had a hard stop( was gonna run the light before it got all the way red, but a cop was at the intersection :stupid: ) anyway neat turn i feel a wobble wobble,.and then it kinda feels like I have a flat, I get out and look and it all looks fone but when i get home I notice that my front passenger strut seems to not have any bounce, it goes down okay and will come back to ride hieght but its like it has no spring to it. bad strut??????
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what's a good idle speed for a 240 Z?
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hey, its now smoking pretty bad after i addes some mistre oil..in the enging.. i pulled the plugs and there all covered with oil..then theres oil coming out of the exahous.. flange gasket...what show i do? some one said that is lowered the viscasity of the oil now the oil is going through the valve seals...what should ido from here..flush out the oil...then what..will i need a vavle job..? THANKS, steve Long live the Z...
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On my 73 240 when you go to start the car the starter won't stop even if you shut the key off! I thought it was a bad solinoid and put in a new one and it does the same thing! The only way to stop it is to pull the battery cable, luckly I guess the engine doesn't seem to be firing either??? If you reconnect the battery then everything is fine until you try to start it again. This started all of a sudden and I'm sort of stumped as to what the cause is... I don't see that there is a relay in line but maybe I'm missing something in the wiring diagram. Any and all help on this stumper would be apreciated!
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I just trailored my father-in-law's (now my) 1973 240z home. It was last started in 1993. It was mechanically sound at that time. He was the original owner and the car has 50K miles. I have been told different things as far as what I should do to get the car running. Anything from put in a new battery and see if she starts to drain all the fluids, including taking off the gas tank, replace all the hoses and pull the spark plugs and put a light oil in overnight to lubricate things. The last thing I want to do is screw anything up, but I also dont want to do things which are not indicated. Also I will need to get new tires, what are good tires for this car? Zover
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Oh No !! I adjusted valves then set timing . I noticed to get 17deg. BTDC my distributor was turned almost all the way to the desination R . I assumed the adjustment from timming marks on crank shaft would have put me some where in the middle of distributor adjustment. I noticed I had play on my distubutor cam and it would rotate with out alot of force applied to it. I wondered if the play affected my mechanical points opening and closing. Well I loosened the srcew to the cam in the distributor and shaft pulled up but now I don't think its back in the right position. I'm back firing and not able to start car How do i get the distributor cam back in the right position.
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I am rebuilding my 76 280z engine and came across a broken ground wire attached to the bottom of the air flow meter bracket. I don't know where the other end is supposed to go. Three bolts attach the air flow support bracket to its engine compartment shelf. They pass through rubber grommets that keep the bracket (and air flow meter) from grounding to the rest of the car. The ground wire must serve a purpose, but none of the manuals talk about it. Is this an add-on item. I've seen it on more than one 280z, but it never is connected the same way. Any ideas?
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hi, to all I was driving my 71 240z today and the oil guage is fine while driving but when you come to a stop at a light the guage goes to zero. I have plenty oil in the car and i checked the connection on the sending unit it seems fine. I did notice that the glass on the guage is loose and it you tap on the glass the guage will move. How do i fix the glass in the guage and how do i get to the guage. Is the glass my problem with the guage or is is something other than that. Please help i am new to the z car. Thanks Looking for a z ( i have found one)
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Hey there, Any one can help and tell me the maker of this wheels or where i can find them? It`s for my `74 GC110 skyline. I`m from Portugal
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now that I have my new cam in, I have to adjust the lifters. This probably should have been down a long time ago, but I figure a fresh cam was as good a time as any. Does anyone know what the actual specs are for adjusting the solid lifters on a 71 240z. The only numbers I can ever remember is for a toyota celica, cuz it's seven eleven. If I could just get the proper numbers for this, I should be all set to fire it up. Thanks.
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it all started 2 days ago... i was driving down to a friend's house, when my charge light turned on (meaning my battery isnt being charged). looking back on it, i also smelled something that was kinda funny on the way (kinda like a roasting belt)... got there, checked my belt, looked fine, figured i and my car was just being stupid, and moved on... on the way home, my parking brake light turned on... next day, starts fine, go to drop my sister off at gymnastics, drive off, go to store for food and to cash a check at the adjoining bank, leave to go pick my sister up from gymnastics. when i tried to leave the gymnastics place, my volt gague read just under 12 volts (its usu…
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OK, now I have a problem first off my 1975 z w/ the mildly hopped up L28 was burning some oil on the way back from houston where I bought it. I then did a comp check on it on found it was almost dead on 2cyls marinal on the rest. I'm in the process of figuring out what I'm going to do on the rebuild (needs rings etc) we set the valves, we put some oil in the cyl. for the compression check, just to get it as good as can be until the rebuild - now it won't run its turns over and starts with my foot to the floor, then it sputters and dies I set the timing, with it running on the starter thinking mabe that got outta whack - we had to pull the dizzy out b/c the hold down scr…
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