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Okay this is for Captain Obvious….I don’t want him to have a restless night. 🤣 Followed the FSM diagram. Pretty straight forward. Time to test. 🤞

I think I got the vacuum line routing sorted out. I had to fun out and buy new lines. Didn’t want to risk putting in lines that were 45 years old back in the car especially since I have the dash out. Just completed the center console sound proofing. It’s a two layer system. A metal backed butyl layer 80 mls think followed by second foam layer.

Final production: The washer material used contains elastomer this minimizes cracking. Although the washer is not generally exposed to sunlight, I have not conducted long term tests on the color fastness or rigidity.) The flash on the inner hole is covered by the fastener head. The next challenge is to locate a manufacturer of the correct size oval, phillips head screw. Keith

I don’t know if this will add to the glove box discussion, but I have this NOS glove box with two notches and the bag with “A Glove Box” description on the parts tag. There are no chalk marking on the box.

I agree , from my maths I should say around April. I should be realized that , Nissan Shatai used “ month “ for their change , I can see it in many cases . Given the chassis number , it will indicate beginning of month . Even not an early one , If there is chalk markings on it , we can’t get rid of it . Let’s repair originals with the method above . Kats

Perhaps someone with an unmolested pre-March 1970 240Z can also chime in with a glove box photo. It appears that Nissan wised up around April 1970, and replaced the "handed" glove boxes with a universal one that fit both dashboards. So the corollary to this is that if you have a concours S30 restoration dated roughly pre-April 1970, looks like you'll need the special "handed" glove box. So I'd better get on with gluing mine back together....

Not great, but I've seen worse get fixed

Cool template file. Thanks for doing that.

I looked up my parts catalog for tracking the glove box . LHD model has E4600 , RHD model E4100 at first . Then both cars have E4102 . When did that change ? I took and reviewed an old data which I have got from Mr.Uemura and Mr.Osawa ( test crew US & CANADA late 69) . Let’s do some calculations. For S30 series domestic cars, 1969 total was 969 . 1970 Jan 127 , Feb 364 , Mar 378 . Total 1838 cars at that period. Jul 1970 Aircon manual said cars up to S30-01629 have to buy 68600-E4102 , after S30-01629 already have 68600-E4102. Total 1838 S30 cars means that the number included S30/S30S/PS30/PS30SB . I guess most of them were S30S ( Fairlady Z ) and S30(Fairlady ZL ) , PS30/PS30SB would be 100 or little more at that point. S30S and S30 share the same chassis number on the fire wall “ S30-xxxxxx” . So, maybe in March 1970 , the glove box changed to have notches on both sides . And why not for LHD model at the same time ? We need to see a lot of actual glove box for this observation. I attached a picture of the glove box of a Z432 , PS30-00062 made in Dec 1969 . Only an outboard corner has the notche. Kats

Good news. The Z project is back! Well it was never gone and i've been continuously working on it, but due to an management education i had on the weekend for the past two years, a big step forward in my job and many other things in life, the project was progressing much slower than i wished. But i'm a guy to make long-term plans and i've always had the plan to get things done when life allows me to. So here we are. My school is completed. Well i still have my exams in mid april so i'm working hard on that, but until then that and my job will still occupy most of my free time. The advantage of my new job position is that i earn some more money and in the meantime i've saved some especially to complete this project. I've also really longing to get back into the garge and get my hands greasy. Over the past weeks i've been looking for a bodyshop to complete the work. The old one was OK, but there was a bit of a difficulty when it came to communication and it was always a side-project for the bodyshop, which was earning money with small repairs, insurrance cases and fixer-upper projects of US-cars. He had a strong history in japanese cars, but i had the feeling he lost a bit of interest in my project. The other thing is - he was a talented panel-beater, but didn't have the tools himself, so whenever he had to bend some sheetmetal, he had to go to his friends shop. this was time consuming and i had the feeling i paid for much of it. So i decided instead to go to a more upperclass Oldtimer specialist, which usually deals with cars in a different price range. I was asking around and got some good tips. Finally i have a nice bloke coming over to check out the car and details in the coming days. we'll see how that turns out. so far i have a very good feeling. But i also started to collect all the panels required to complete the project Yes, puzzle time 🙂 Only the box section on the LH side is missing, but i hope the panelbuilder can make this himself. Labor is expensive in switzerland, so i decided to get these ready-made patch panels from the US, to delete the US-spec turn signal holes on the US spec rear quarter panel, which i got. Why pay a dude an hour of work to measre and create such a panel, i can buy a ptch piece for 20 bucks? Additionally a collected a few NOS items from some nice guys.- like an original hood hinge: And a complete choke cable assembly (ok, this one isused, but in almost mint condition!): and some more parts. Engine gasket kit, Starter solenoid, Rectifier diode, SU carb gasket kit and a wheel bearing: I also (again) bought a nice set of vintage swiss Datsun stickers. You may have seen them before, but the special one in this set is the white one: Its from the early 70ies and the slogan "Datsun bringt neue Werte" (Datsun brings new values) was used on many of the original Swiss Datsun (240Z) Documentation: Here is an 1971 advertizing where you could order above stickers for free (see center) I also found this nice swiss Datsun keychain from the early eighties. it was cheap, so i had to have it 🙂 From the same era is this 1984 Datsun / Nissan brochure, which i will use for my Datsun switzerland chronicles story which i'm working on. The swiss Prince / PMC Mikado pricelist from 1966 has already been added to the "Prince" part of the story For the coming "commercial vehicle" chapter, i obtained a few nice and rarer brochures of commercial vehicles, like this datsun Homer, King-cab, Urvan, and Vanette brochures: That's it for today. I have some more documents for the story on the way currently, and also a nice JDM-only piece for the Z is on the way from Japan. so stay tuned for more news soon...

I’ve used Plasti Dip and it works great! It can be brushed on as well as dipped and looks as good as original rubberized tabs. A couple of coats or whatever looks best to you.

Nicely done!!

Thanks! Yours is Canadian car , so what does “ A “ stand for? North “A” merica? Maybe no … What I am thinking about is , to distinguish dashboard must have come from the variation of the wiring (some for Automatic shift indicator illumination, some for Four way flasher and / or glove box compartment illumination available or deleted , etc) gauges (kilometer or mile ) , audio equipment, what else? Maybe caution decal on the inner glove box door (English or Spanish , German etc ) ? So , Canadian 240Z and USA 240Z , what makes them being different ? If there is no difference between them , glove box markings will be the same . Then I went to my garage to see how my 03/1970 has the glove box. It has 68600-E4600, but so far I can’t see any chalk markings. We need to see more examples! Kats

What would they make? If the 240Z shafts don't fit then he can't just say "make me a 280Z propeller shaft". He said he had a stack of 240Z shafts that have small flanges, whatever that means. If they don't fit then a 280Z shaft won't fit either. The reason the drive shaft shops won't replace the u-joints is probably for liability reasons. Nissan says that they are not repairable.

Great stats. I had a look at my 1978 North American parts book pdf and like you mention it does show the -E4600 and -E4102 P/N's but no date ranges. Interesting that the picture shows the early version with one notch. The 1973 JDM parts book pdf I have shows the -E4100 and -E4102 P/N's, and is again pictured with the early single notch, but opposite side. My guess is it was early 1970 when the change to -E4102 with two notches was used for all markets.

Interesting, actually my car is a Canadian market car. It's an HLS30UN model (non emissions). I guess the "A" is still a mystery.

I will take a breakfast with a cup of coffee. Kats

You're welcome Kats, those chalk marks are interesting. My 7/70 HLS30 has an "A" marking. Any significance? It's not an automatic.

Not to mention Quality Time!!!😂😂

Captain Obvious is dying to fly down and work the bugs out. He's that special kind of guy, extremely helpful. You have the plane he has the knowledge, zip it up. I would but my dog is not feeling well.

Thanks CanTechZ ! Here is a glove box collections, white chalk marking is fun to look at . Automatic has “トルコン(torque converter) “, Fairlady 240ZG has “H-H “ ( HS30H ) , Z432 has “ PS30” . But you see SP30 , that is definitely a mistake ! Kats

Here is more about the oddball 1975 flange. I'm not so sure this guy's thoughts about the ZX diffs are correct, I've never heard of anyone finding a 280ZX diff without the typical DAT-110 pattern. The 300ZX diffs are definitely different though. But, he does have dimensions shown, and 1975 ID'ed as the center flange. I have had a square flange and a round flange on two diffs from 1976 and 1978 that had the same DAT-110 bolt pattern. So you can't go by shape of the flange. You have to take the measurements. https://jagsthatrun.com/collections/datsun-z-parts/products/adaptor-flange-for-datsun-z-v8

I thought it might be unrectified. The first test is to see if it registers DC voltage on a voltmeter. I was also going to test it with a SPDT relay. If it pulls in the coil and holds, it works. I might even play with using a diode to make it a pulsed signal if it is sinusoidal. I could even do a test rig in my 240Z to see if it holds up for some trips. I could rig the contacts for the relay to a taillight socket with an LED bulb to see if it stays bright. A dim LED would indicate the contacts are cycling. Anyway, I've put a DC coil in an AC circuit before. The sound isn't pretty. Good point on the FPR. That sounds like the preferred solution if the P terminal doesn't pan out. The only advantage of the P terminal is that it you wouldn't have to do much outside of back the pin for the yellow wire out of the the T connector and put it in a single pin connecter.

I know the vac lines are next in my list. I need to go through the FMS and confirm routing. Not looking forward to it. Did the test run to check for leaks. Had a small one and just needed to tighten one hose clamp. All good now. Of note: the car was running rough when I started it and it was running rich, and a big smokey…messed with idle screw and checked plug connections…no dice. Then I noticed the temp sensor pig tail on the back of the head came off. Must have happened when I was attaching heater hoses back up. So it appears the ECU defaults to a rich condition when this sensor is disconnected. Now noted for the future. Reconnected and ran perfectly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If it helps, I created a 3D step model and flat patterns from a 12/70 parts car glove box I have and uploaded the files here. The flat patterns are in acad.dwg format and pdf as well. It's from a Canadian market LHD car but hopefully it might help. FYI, I just noticed a typo for the sheet size I noted on the template drawing. It should be 24" wide x 36" tall, scale is 1:1 when printed on that size of sheet.

I was wrong about this , normal Z432-R has the same spring rate as Z432 , just free length is shorter than Z432 . Z432-R is 80 kg lighter than Z432 . To have equal dimensions as a variant of S30 series cars ( floor clearance hight is the same as Z432 , ) , the springs are shortened I think . I am talking about this car , a plain , raw , ready for building a race car for your own .From Motor Magazine April 1971. Kats I probably can’t use my set of PZR springs because my Z is not light like PZR , the hight will drop slightly. I love Higher posture like Safari car .

Hello all, New to the community. Just uploaded a digitized 1978 280z FSM to the downloads section. I wanted to make some of the files other users have uploaded more useful to me and thought ya'll may appreciate access to it as well. It's not perfect, but I think it'll work fairly well for most. Randall

Thank You! The help you can find on this forum is the best and much appreciated. Steve

Thanks Chas but in this case I'm just restoring my own modifications, real restorers might take offense

I think Phillip is having fun stretching those pictures? Could be a LSD Whopper he's munching on. I've had LSD sugar cubes back in my past life. Laughed for 10 hours, slept for 20.

Well I'm just waiting on the new LED headlights and the recovered dash to arrive before I can finish everything up. Engine is in, gas tank installed, all the brakes done and bled and I reconfigured the exhaust system so there is more ground clearance. @Careless gave me hand getting the glass in the other day, thanks again Raf.

Hi Alan, I didn’t have this one , so I quickly bought the one ! Thank you. Today I found some new YouTube of Z432-R , they are very interesting to see. Both cars are not well known in Japan (World wide too) . But I believe the one in the Sunday car meeting must be the one which was restored at TA -Auto , Ando-san’s work . I visited several times and watched the progress, that was very interesting to me. Alan might see it too, might not you ? And the one is now restored in progress is now very “ hot “ in Japan. Mr. Saito ( owner and the mechanic) has got the car almost 20 years ago without knowing it was a Z432-R because the car was pretended to be Z432 . It had Normal seats , normal center console , aftermarket steering wheel, and painted red , etc etc. After stored it in his garage , he found 100 litter gas tank ! He suddenly realized it is Z432-R , PZR , PS30SB . Saito san has been showing his working progress on YouTube, his channel is now huge popular in Japan, but he never mentioned the car is Z432-R. He seems that he doesn’t want people get so excited about it and send him a lot of questions and comments which make him bother . But we already know the car it is ! Kats

I am glad that you like it, and Alan , this is the magazine , “driver” issued 5th February 1971 . This magazine is for general people, family car to sports car . Kats

You are not alone... Last time I did that I sounded like Ralphie's Dad from A Christmas Story when he was working on the furnace.