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I have 74 260z. Last fall just before I was about to put her into storage it blew the water pump. Anyways I put her into storage early with plans on replacing it after Xmas and a new roof. Anyways, I did a compression test last night and came up with these numbers: 1# - 100 2# - 100 3# - 105 4# - 107 5# - 105 6# - 100 Is it just me or are these really low? I'm not a mechanic, just starting to learn as much as I can. I do have a backyard mechanic helping me though that said the numbers were good because they were close to the same but after reading through other posts I think they should be around 150. If so what should be my next move?

I need some help with this as well, p/u a rebuilt ZX alternator this afternoon.

I have an early 74 260Z with a bad ground which I am trying to isolate and fix. I was driving, everything good. The whoof...no power to anything, not even a click in the ignition. Burnt out a fusible link. Was able to hotwire it by connecting a wire from the coil to the battery and jumping the starter, that allowed me to get the car home. After I replaced the fuse link it burnt up immediately after I hooked up the positive to the battery but still no power was going anywhere. Looked over the fuse link box and noticed that one of the connectors was badly corroded so I ditched the box and and spliced in some new fusible link wire with butte connectors. Immediately after I connected the positive on the battery the fuse link (white with red stripe) burnt up. The other which I believe goes to the starter was fine. Any advice about what to do will be appreciated. Absolute beginner here.

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I picked up the an early 74 260Z yesterday. It has Dual Webers DGV 32/36. It was idling good but rich and the timing was off a bit when I picked it up but on the way home it started sputtering in 3rd gear, then stalled then backfired a fireball which scared the hell out of me. I couldn't get it to idle at all after that, had to keep my foot on the gas to keep it from stalling. With my limited knowledge of carbs I didn't want to touch them however some old guys stopped by and tried to help, but didn't. So as a last resort I called the previous owner and asked him for some help. He came over and after a few hours narrowed the problem down to carbs. The previous owner rebuilt the carbs last week. Both floats were set to 35 mm prior to the rebuild and he reset them to factory specs of 41 mm. He is coming over today to put them back to 35 mm. Does this sound like it may help.