1971 HLS30-14938 "Lily" build

[Patcon]

So got the glass down out of the shop ceiling today. Its been above the spray booth since about 2010.

Unfortunately the windshield was broken in two places. 😞

I had it stored on two 2x4s with the curve turned up . Concave side down. The inner sheet of glass broke on both sides just out side the 2x4s. I guess the weight of that inner sheet broke itself

Thankfully I have a spare. Hopefully it will clean up

[bartsscooterservice]

On 9/2/2023 at 10:13 PM, Patcon said:

Working on the fuel and vent tanks some more. I believe my fuel sender is bad so I ordered a cheap one off Ebay. We'll see how it looks. I bought a bunch of braided hose for the vent system but I let Cody use some of it for his car and now I don't appear to have enough. Trying to sort that out

Where does the upper port on the left hand side (maybe 8mm hose) of the vapor tank go?? Does it just go through the floor and vent to the outside? Or does it connect to the vent line that goes to the front of the car? I think I know where the other lines go. I am looking for springs to work on the one molded hose. I may try to heat that in the oven to thermoset it...

On the diagrams I have seen it seems to go through the floor and vent but if it connects to the vapor line to front of the car, it isn't shown right...

There where technical drawings of that vapor tank, and where all the lines go, don't know the topic though

[jfa.series1]

11 hours ago, bartsscooterservice said:

There where technical drawings of that vapor tank, and where all the lines go, don't know the topic though

From the FSM:

[Patcon]

So I have been scheming on how to mold this vent line. So I ordered a screen door spring. Although, I could have picked one up at Home depot for a little less.

Then I stretched it out

Here is the original hose

Then I put the spring in and added a thick piece of solid copper and formed it up

Baked it in the oven at 325F for about ten minutes, while my wife was away of course!

It sort of held it's shape but not entirely. So, I tried again. 400F for 12 minutes. That smoked up the place pretty good!!

It held it's shape better but I still ended up putting a piece of spring inside the line to prevent crushing even though I probably didn't need to.

All in all, it's probably just as cheap to buy the molded hose from a vendor when you look at what it costs to buy plain hose in the first place. Then figure in an hour of your time and a spring, etc.

[Patcon]

Here are some of the tags off the original vent lines

[Patcon]

I got the new fuel tank sender in. It was about $15 total, which I thought was pretty cheap.

Matches really well and the resistance seems to be pretty close

New O ring

Sender set and indexed

I had 2 O rings to choose from. I used the one I had from Zcardepot versus the one that came with the sender. The one from Zcardepot fit perfect. The other one was on the small side

 

[Patcon]

Worked on some glass today too

Rear hatch decals @cgsheen1 Do you recognize these?

Rear hatch etching

Windshield etching. No tint strip

Stripped the metal brackets off the door glass. I am going to send a load to the platers

There are small white plastic washer sunder the bolts and washers to prevent over tightening to the glass

I believe this is an anti theft device. The drivers door is off a later car and is much heavier than the passenger door

I cut up an old rusty hatch. Here is what the layup looks like across the top of the hatch

When I sound proofed the inside of the car I was careful enough and I got stuff all over the tool compartment tab rubber. So I scraped them back down and brushed some black plasti-dip on them.

I also did that to the wire loom tabs along the floor boards, at the fuel tank and the tail light panel. I will get new tab covers for the ones in the engine bay

 

[dutchzcarguy]

15 hours ago, Patcon said:

Baked it in the oven at 325F for about ten minutes, while my wife was away of course!

HAHAHA... the best line in this whole topic!! 😂  (For us single guys!)  Bart once cleaned car engine parts in his mother's dishwasher hahaha...

15 hours ago, Patcon said:

That smoked up the place pretty good!!

Hahaha..  I need to know what she said when she came home!!  😅

Next time throw a sausage roll with it's plastic packaging still on in the oven.. then you have an excuse for the smell Hahaha..

[Patcon]

My wife is top notch!

She didn't complain at all. I've even had to train my wife not to shop for Datsuns! 🤣

[dutchzcarguy]

56 minutes ago, Patcon said:

I've even had to train my wife not to shop for Datsuns! 🤣

WOW !! Truely one of a kind! Congrats!! 

[bartsscooterservice]

If you remove " Dish " from dishwasher, you have a parts washer 

[Patcon]

I stripped some headlights a little while back

I had a pair of 280z lights and a pair of 240z lights. Even with the plugs off, it's a little hard to get them out of the headlight buckets