What I Did Today
A forum showing progress or work done to your (or someone else's) Zcar today or during the week.
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Today i went to see Dboss a guy here not far from Montreal that does body work withou paint in french debosselage sans peinture were the name come from Dboss So i took my hood to the guy and i am amassed with the results so i share So here are the pictures the guy did only taping and streching with rods from beind he did made 2 holes in the second layer of metal inside the hood to get his rods in that is it. took 1 hour and 15 minutes the last 3 images are after on the pictures ou cannot see the dent at all and ou have to be very good to see something even while washing by hand. for me this is like magic
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On my 1979 280zx.. I got my new Yokohama tires early this morning, so first thing I did was pile up the wheels in the truck and went and got them put on and balanced. Put them on my car then took a test drive(down driveway and back hah). after that I needed to check and make sure the timing was right on the engine. That took me ALL day, there's no videos that I could find or any kind of guide that made sense. I probably read that section of the 280zx book 5 times before it even made sense to me. The timing was right, I was actually hoping it wasn't. My car wont jump when you push the gas all the way down, It just dies out. So I was hoping that was the problem. After that …
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Yesterday my Wife & I took a ride out to Mentor Nissan. Beautiful day for a car show, quite a few Z's turned out including 3- 240Z's, 1-260Z , and 2- 280Z's. Thanks Mentor Nissan, great show. Pics are on the Cleveland Z Club Forum.
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I worked on my Camry this morning, it's 12 years old, everything I touched cracked and crumbled. Now the fun part. I'm going for a drive in the 240, damn a 4 cyl.
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after I noticed the hose to the vacuum advance was broken and hanging by a thread. Snapped it off and stuck it back on.
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The throttle arm connected to the main shaft was wallowed causing rotational slop and delayed throttle valve actuation. I brazed the hole in the arm then drilled out and filed to fit the main shaft better.
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I picked up an original style air cleaner box for my 240z. It was in good shape but had been painted fire engine red at some point. Got it off Ebay for $45 with the mounting hardware. This evening I wrapped up painting it and I must say, orange is just color for these things. I have seen them in every color on the net and in person and orange just nails it for some reason. Gloss and satin black look good too but you can't beat factory orange. Or in my case, Chevy engine block orange. I will post up pics once I get it all together and mounted on my car.
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After two weeks of digging around in my 77' 280Z, I think I may have finally found the cause of my problem. I brought the car home knowing it had issues, I dropped 2k on this beautiful 280z that refused to start. The owner before me told me he ran it out of gas and let it sit for two years. I wouldn't have bought the car if he didn't show me the receipts for the work he had done on the engine. He spent over 11k getting the engine rebuilt in 2004, the car had 5k miles on the rebuild. I figured it was something simple, like it needed a new fuel filter and some other minimal work to get it started. Over the past two week I put new fuel hoses in, new fuel filter, cleaned the …
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heres pics of what I have and progress or destruction, we have rust good bit to but fixable. last time on the road 1979 been in garage since 1980 where I pulled it out
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Well my car seems to be slipping or bogging, not sure which. when in neutral and i rev the engine it seems fine like its able to pull like it should. well when in gear it doesnt seem to want to go after a certian rpm. right now my tach isnt working and i know im not reving up high at all. prob not past 5k. anyways i was thinking something like clutch or slave cylinder might not be working properly or clutch cylinder. so i decided to swap out the old and put the new ones i got from autozone a while back, you know start with the easy stuff. well i ran into a problem. the push rod on the new clutch cylinder was too short and i didnt want to go to autozone again order the par…
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Took this crap out Put this beauty in and broke this stuff stripped the bolt hole on the far side of the top housing, then while taking it apart I broke the bolt head off and the wires and sensors. haha figures, upgrade one thing and break other things. oh well.
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Today I re-installed my turn signal and combo switches. I had sent them off to Dave Irwin to rebuild. Dave turned them around in one day! The Turn Signals have never worked properly, right front did not work at all and left rear was intermittent, as well the right turn indicator light never worked. Well they all work perfectly now! I can't say enough about Dave's work, if you need switches repaired, it is well worth the money to have Dave do it IMO. Next up, rear brakes:D
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