Please help a novice get his 240 started

[Zed Head]

The hose broken in half is not a brake line. Brake lines are small and made of hard metal.

The loose cap has a metal ring that turns about halfway to lock the cap down. Brake fluid goes there. Brake lines will be coming out of the bottom of the metal cylinder that the cap and reservoir are attached to. The other cap in the picture covers a brake fluid reservoir also.

The loose wire might be a ground wire for your distributor. You can check if it's a ground with an ohm-meter.

There are others here who know more about carbs.

You are way back at the very beginning of the learning curve for engines. Be careful. Finding a friend who knows about early car engines would help you out a lot.

[LeonV]

I recommend reading for a few months before touching the car. Buy some books on automotive maintenance and fundamentals and go from there. Taking some basic auto tech classes at a nearby community college would help greatly as well.

[Haehl]

I looked into those hoses and both are related to the emission system. The one that is split in half(red circles) T's off and goes to the flow guide valve(green circle). It runs blow-by gas from the motor to the intake between the carbs. The cracked one that was no longer connected to the flow guide valve because of the crack goes from there to the back of the air cleaner. Would these lines being messed up cause running issues?

The hose broken in half is not a brake line. Brake lines are small and made of hard metal.

The loose cap has a metal ring that turns about halfway to lock the cap down. Brake fluid goes there. Brake lines will be coming out of the bottom of the metal cylinder that the cap and reservoir are attached to. The other cap in the picture covers a brake fluid reservoir also.

The loose wire might be a ground wire for your distributor. You can check if it's a ground with an ohm-meter.

There are others here who know more about carbs.

You are way back at the very beginning of the learning curve for engines. Be careful. Finding a friend who knows about early car engines would help you out a lot.

Both caps on the reservoirs just pull right off. I didn't see any metal rings to lock them down. Any pics of said rings?

[Haehl]

I recommend reading for a few months before touching the car. Buy some books on automotive maintenance and fundamentals and go from there. Taking some basic auto tech classes at a nearby community college would help greatly as well.

I'll look into that. Just wanted to get it running while the weather is nice.

[73 240Z Man]

I know its been a while. Any luck?