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I cant find matman on the member list. whats his username

someone smashed my window last night and now the hunt is on for a replacment. any good sources or just scour the forums/craigslist? thank you

well i dunno about yours but on mine there is a crossbeam that has 2 bolts that go into the diff that completely covers the fill hole and covers just enough of the drain plug to make it look like a royal pain to get out. does yours have this? if so how do you just take it out or what? thanks. the trans looks like cake

I have a 240z with an L28 block swapped in, mated to a 5spd trans, I want to change the fluid but I do not know if there are different versions. on my old mitsubishi you just filled it to the fill hole and it was good, is it the same on these as well? also I read somewhere that you can fill the diff through the hole where the halfshaft mounts to the diff, is this true? thanks!

Thanks guys!

heres a few pics of the one area of rot on my car, whats the best way to go about patching this rot up? I have no experience with rust repair whatsoever, and as its not frame-related (triple checked rails, trunk floor and floorpans, no rust) I am willing to tackle this by myself. veteran rust repairer's please advise, thanks in advance.

also, I just walked out to pace back and forth in my garage in front of my engine bay grumbling mean things at my car and noticed that now the fuel filter is full of gas, whereas when it was running it was barely a quarter inch full, it didnt really even seem like fuel was going out the other end, even when I rev'd it up it barely had an increase in flow.

ok update. also, when I started it up cold, it drove like a champ at operating temp for about 15 minutes driving around nothing wrong feeling great, so I pulled in my driveway, and realized I needed to hit the grocery store, so I turned it back on after about 48 seconds of it being off and it started hesitating and sputtering like it has been doing, weird huh? ps: choke nozzles have come unstuck so that is ruled out now. heres what I did: I gapped the plugs to .035, and put in one of those clear fuel filters to check the flow. at idle fuel just dribbles into the canister, looks normal, but when I rev it up the flow only increases slightly (bubbles come up as well, not at idle, only when im holding it at around 2000rpm, not froth, just bubbles). when I rev up the 350 v8 (mechanical fuel pump as well) in my other car, fuel gushes into the fuel filter, am I looking at a blockage most likely? thanks.

ha, had a looksie and the wire is snapped, will recrimp, thanks guys!

I have a 72 240z, my temp gauge decided to stop working today, where is it located? I cannot find it in my fsm. thank you

ok so carb cleaner unstuck the cold start enrichment circuit, and the car still is doing the same thing. when you first start up the car, it runs alright but after 3-4 minutes, the idle starts to drop, and it will eventually die out, and it runs progressively worse until it just wont hold idle any more. sigh thanks for sticking with me.

blah. so the spacer came today (new gaskets came with the pump). so i plugged it in, put my new oil and filter in (car has been draining for the last 3 days) and tried to go on my merry. but the car really sounds like it is not on all cylinders, loping idle, no power and smells really rich. I need to get a new plug gapper (i cant find mine anywhere, must of lost it during my recent move) and gap my new plugs. also. I noticed that one of my choke nozzles (on the bottom) is sticking all the way out. could this be dumping gas into my cylinders and making me run super rich? can somebody point me to a guide for unsticking this valve? thanks in advance.

dont worry about startin it, its not been started since i found out. Ok so i got the new pump today, it took two whole agonizng days to get here, i go home ready to rock and roll and as soon as i touch the black pumP spacer t move it over from the old one to the new one it just falls apart! It was cracked and just needed a little help to fully break. Am i screwed and need to source another from a junkyard because im assuming i cant run the pump without it. Please advise. Thanks

I really hope it is the cause. Alot of fuel got into the oil. It is way over full on the dipstick now. Gonna go buy the pump today, will report back. Thanks guys upon closer inspection of the pump it seems to be an original. Further supporting the claim of it failing

ok, went into napa and the only mechanical fuel pumps they could find were for 2.6L's. I have a 2.8. are they the same? they look identical on the outside. thanks

ok, I pulled the plugs out, they were wet and smelled like gas. tested for spark (after checking plugs, got good solid spark out of all 6 plugs. the choke nozzels are gunked up but not stuck open.. but I also noticed there is now alot of gas in my oil. could this just have slipped past my rings while testing for spark (of course I forgot to disconnect the fuel lines) or am I in deeper trouble than I am aware of? please advise, thanks for sticking with me.

any regular meets happening? after i get her purring again I'd love to come out.

points on the diz

I have the SU's round tops i believe.

i meant the distributor didnt move (meaning the timing didnt run off). are the dists the same for L28s and 240 engines? as in can I use my 240 FSM to check the point gap?

hey eveybody. just got my first z a few weeks ago, its a blast! 1972 240z with an early L28 swapped in. bought it in napa county. It just devloped a problem but I posted it in the problem section so I wont go into it here. heres a few pics

hey all, New member here, thought I would start my stay off here with a riddle, of the car variety of course, thanks in advance for your help. I have a 72 240z with an early L28 swapped in. problem is below the picture. about 5 minutes after I left home on a cold San Francisco day, the car starts to sputter and wont hold idle (engine just got off the full cold mark on the stock guage). It dies on me at a red light,I try to turn it back on, it cranks for about ~7-8 seconds and wont turn on until I start pumping the gas pedal. when it finally does fire up, it sounds like its not firing on all cylinders and I can smell gas out of the exhaust (leading me to believe there is unburned fuel in the cylinders). it wont will idle badly for about 10 seconds but the idle will continuously get lower until it dies, playing with the choke ,makes no difference. the distributor (points distributor, not electrical) did not move, its still tight. any suggestions? thank you.