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I had forgotten about that. Reminded me that you have to lock the door with the key from the outside after you close it, if you want to lock it and leave it. Of course, based on the above. The knob is only for locking yourself in. I used the knob to work the mechanism free becuase I was afraid that I would break the key.

I remember the lock mechanism on my 76 being almost impossible to move even with the knob and cylinder attached correctly. It might be that you just need to get a better grip on the part that the knob rod attaches to and pull harder. Might be worthwhile to fabricate a new rod and attach it to give you something to pull and push on. With lubrication and some manual working the mechanism on mine eventually loosened up. The car had sat for many years before I got it.

Here's an old post from TerrapinZ with good measurements. Just noticed that posts don't have numbers anymore. Bummer. It's about 1/3 down page 12 if the link doesn't take you directly there.

I should have mentioned the distributor itself also. They are known for worn bushings allowing the reluctor wheel to contact the stator ring, breaking things. If it won't start with fluid, it's not going to start with gasoline. Good old Blue wrote up a thing about them. The magnetic pickup can fail, there's a test for that. The air gap can be off, there's a measurement for that. Described in the Electrical chapter. https://www.atlanticz.ca/zclub/techtips/distributorrebuild/index.html

You said but you didn't describe. Try starting fluid. If it starts but runs poorly, it's not fuel pressure.

Is the spark strong and blue or weak and orange? I had an ignition module go bad and it showed spark. But the engine would only start with starting fluid. As far as fuel, the fuel pressure regulators tend to start leaking down if they sit for a long time. The seat n the FPR gets corroded. They will maintain pressure while the pump is running but leak down quickly once it stops. The simple test is to clamp the feed or return lines and see what the pressure does.

I had the same thought about needing some angle being necessary to work the needle bearings. Side note about the "AI Overview". It is basically a boiled down compilation of everything available on the internet. Including all of the garbage and nonsense. The tech marketers want us to start believing what the AI algorithms produce. But, really, it should all be ignored and only verified professional sources should be considered. At this point in time, "AI" is good for entertainment purposes only. If you really study the statement below you'll see that it actually says very little, and some of it makes little sense. Like "allow the shaft to change angle". Empty words, really. No offense intended. It's just another of those things to be worried about. The word intelligence does not guarantee intelligence.

Not clear what year 240Z you're driving but Nissan moved the diff back because of vibration. I can't find a reference but it's been well-discussed. The shorter "pre-modification" propeller shaft was/is popular for people doing the 71C transmission swap because the length was perfect. Anyway, maybe you're just experiencing the reason Nissan made a change. I think that it was actually mid-71 but not sure.

I found the option to click to get the site back to the thread title view. Upper right, next to the auto-update comment, pasted an image below. I guess that the default is post-by-post. Not sure if it sets a cookie or not. Might have to click it each time.

Here is the basic answer to Mike's comment "Or just log in...". On top of the above is the effort expended to peck in the email address and password. If you use your computer for other things like banking the constant username and password inputs gets tiresome. And, a new change - not really sure why, but the "Topics Last 30 Days" option is gone now. I suggested that way back when so that people who had not been on the site for over a day could look back over the previous few weeks. At the time the "Load More Activity" thing didn't go back very far. So if you missed a few days and nobody posted, the thread was lost in the Forum sub-titles. It's been very handy, especially when the posts were categorized by Topic. If you remembered a thread about somebody's clutch replacement and wanted to see how it had come out you could go back and find it. Can't do that easily anymore. The new post by post list doesn't work well. parman's thread is entertaining but when the whole page is parman...? I also notice that the old problem is back on the "Topics Last 24 Hours" page. Each click takes you to the first post if you're not logged in. More clicking and scrolling required. That's probably the key message here - reduce the number of clicks and scrolls required to get to the new stuff. Just trying to offer some constructive feedback. I hate to be critical but the site was working really well before, like a well-tuned Z. It has a few misfires happening now.

The Activity page now lists each post instead of each Topic. Is that intentional? All a person sees today is a long list of parman's thread posts. Not much interaction there either, it seems to be a collection of old pictures and a story. Nothing wrong with that except that it's dominating the "feed".

When did the work on it start? It wasn't 18 hours ago. Is it done now? What are your plans? Edit - is this the 4 year restoration car you mentioned in a different post? Those first pics are four years old?

Is it a 1971 249Z? I see a clutch pedal with low wear, a sign that it's low mileage. Must be a manual transmission. Any more details? Looks like a fun project. There'a thread on the forum, I think it's called "waking the beast" or something like that. You should find it and read it before even spinning the engine. It's possible that it might not be too rusty inside. But unlikely. One of those bore scopes will tell you a lot. Good luck. Edit - found some details on your profile.

Thanks for the tip CO, I didn't know that other pages worked differently. I'll just start using the main Activity page now and avoid the aggravation.

Without it, a person has to find the place to click and click multiple times, plus scrolling to the bottom of the page, to get to the new post at the end of a multi-page thread. Going to the first post of a three page thread is pointless if you've already seen the three pages. If you're on a "phone" it's swipe swipe swipe, touch, swipe swipe swipe. It's why the software developers created the "X hours ago" link. That is its purpose. Go directly to the new stuff. It's odd that it doesn't work on CZCC. You were using the same platform as Hybridz. You can jog over there and check it out. https://forums.hybridz.org/discover/