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4/75 Datsun 280Z; Leaf Green, CA market, 250K miles, Long Term Project 03/2023-


HusseinHolland

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Last few days I've just been futzing on small things - not enough energy to pull the trans

Tuesday - after napping most of the day away, I had to get something done so I replaced the 3 kitchen counter  receptacles with GFCI  - been meaning to do that for years  

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also got another coat of paint on the garage bump out, and started cleaning up the trim. I'm not great at cutting trim

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Today I added an 8' LED light on the left, 2 fluorescent units on the cross beam

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Fixed the base of the attic stairs - old base sheet was 1/4" - I changed it with 3/4" and bonded the tie plates to it. Much more rigid & secure now.

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The other thing I'm always missing is a secure place to put the odds & ends I end up working with - I made a frame to retain 3 trays I have  -instead of having to have it in the way on the bench, or under

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It takes a long time to not feel tired after Covid.

Which way are you cutting the walls?

Cutting the corner brown in or cutting the siding color back against corner. I would typically paint the corners and then cut the siding color in. I find that easier

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8 hours ago, Patcon said:

It takes a long time to not feel tired after Covid.

Which way are you cutting the walls?

Cutting the corner brown in or cutting the siding color back against corner. I would typically paint the corners and then cut the siding color in. I find that easier

I had done the siding then the trim, but I had to go back & touch up the siding. for the stuff that's left (up above the entry) I'll do the trim first, seems to work better.

Zonked again today - slept in. I think I did too much yesterday. Back to work tomorrow, I only have till Thursday with my (art classes) students, then it's Regents Exams, so no regular class attendance. They all need to finish their art finals, and I was out all last week, so I know many will have elected to coast in that time without me there to motivate them. 

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Chipping away at the wiring runs. Added an outlet up high (that I forgot earlier) to plug the fan into

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running the 10ga & 12ga in the conduit  along the south wall

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4" deep box sitting above will be mounted below existing for the 240v receptacle, like the East end boxes above, Ran out of 3/4" threaded ends

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Hell of a day today. Left home with the Mrs. at 9am to head upstate for the annual Volvo car meet. We got about 30miles north & then the pickup died. I tried to fix it, but there was no spark & I had no parts to fix it on the spot. SO, we got towed back home around noon. 

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I still wanted to get up to Ithaca for the meet, so repacked the C30 & left on my own, the Mrs. had had it. I got about 2 hours or so into the drive & then this happened

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Single lane traffic through a construction zone, basically we were all on the shoulder. Section of roadway heaved, broke the Tesla in front of me, I moved over as far as I could without hitting the concrete divide, and got the broken wheel & a bent strut tube

Just a little extra camber

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I put the space saver on it & drove the remaining 90 miles at 40-45mph. That was excruciating, but at least I made it, and ppl up here were able to source a strut tube, so I can change that tomorrow, if all goes well. I'll have to drive downstate on the space saver, which won't be fun, but at least I won't need to be towed all the way home.

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Space saver after 100 miles with extreme camber

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Bent tube removed

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Have to keep it 45 or lower to avoid drivability / handling concerns. Made it back to Deposit, NY where the accident happened. took me over 2 hours to go the 90 miles. The remaining 140miles will take about 3 hours, on a replacement same spec space saver (mid 00's Volvo S60Rs came with big brakes - so they provided a space saver with a deep offset, works for my setup.

 

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On 6/23/2024 at 8:16 PM, Paulytunes said:

Glad you made it home safe.  That sucks to have two incidents like that in one day.  Maybe you were just not meant to be at that Volvo meet.

The meet was awesome, I'm glad I went - not so much the actual travel to & from...

The pickup issue was pretty straight forward - no spark to the plugs, but spark present to the distributor. I didn't have a spare cap or rotor, or I probably could have fixed it on the road.

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Ultimately, I replaced the rotor & 2 of the wires that didn't have positive lock on the plug anymore. Actual resistance values of the wires were OK. Plugs were all OK, gaps OK. I had just replaced the cap & rotor a few days prior when I removed the distributor to address the leaking shaft seal. I should have just left the old ones on, they only had maybe 5-6K miles on them. I re-installed the Bosch ones, just cleaned up the contact points

Dead (non-Bosch) rotor on left

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Plugs OK, gap OK (WR7DC)

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checking spark on each wire after

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running again , stable idle

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