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On another note, I figured out my headlight issues. So the H4 LED's I have are interesting. This is the typical H4 pin locations So when I attached power to the ground location on the LED and tested the other pins the Hi's and Lo's work fine. But they also work fine no matter where I attached the power into the bulb. Very strange So the Phenolic at the bulb has these labels I decided I would wire it this way. Power in on the right side and high beam (red w white) on the left hand side. I then took the other headlight out and made it match. Now everything works as it should. The indicator is on in high beam and completely off in low beam. Another thing off the list

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Update Solid state VRegulator @cgsheen1 The needle whips back and forth almost the full range when driving. Negative to positive current at almost a constant wiggle 240 alternator with external regulator, obviously. We did have some magic smoke out of the dash when we started it months ago. So possible Ammeter issue or over current on a dead battery? How would I test the ammeter?

I have texted him and PM'd him from CZC. I haven't heard back...

Yeah, it helps if you don't paint the trace!

A decent project early car with out a lot of rust is probably $6k or more. Careful sand blasting! Especially early cars. It's easy to warp the metal and the blasting work hardens the metal I would switch and try to sell the 280z project to recoup my money out of that project...

I checked voltage earlier today but I will recheck. It was like 14.7, pretty stable but that was at idle

I had one on hand to swap in. If I have another failure, I will probably replace them all with new

I will have to check. I have a voltage regulator but I will have to check to see if it's the points style. What would I be looking for on the voltage display? I was planning on going to an internally regulated alternator eventually

PM me and I will make it more clear

On a different note @SteveJ why does my ammeter wag like crazy? It seems to settle at idle but when driving it wags from one extreme to the other most of the time

On a different note, I drove my car today for the first time!!! It has never run since I've owned it. 16 years... I don't know if this will play IMG_4909.3gp So a very nice Christmas :)

This is the finished cigarette lighter I added some door seals but they need some more work. They didn't adhere very well Here is the broken strut Isolator

I have a front toyota setup that I could sell you for a lot less than that. I took it off my 240z

Thanks guys! Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

What is the proper way to mount the antenna in an early 240z? Pics?

That's an interesting car. We'll watch that one

Blacked out some of the lens Shroud installed lens Cluster

I pulled the front carb today and carefully took it apart. I never found a smoking gun blockage. Although the banjo filters might be letting pieces through. We put it back on the car and started it. The 1&2 cylinders were still dead. I used starting fluid and goosed it and 1&2 heated up. So it is a fueling issue. After messing with it some it appears to be running on all six again. Very strange and no real known cause which is disconcerting... oh well. Also, one of these is not like the other.. So the drivers side strut will have to come down enough to rework the insulator. I have another one but they appear to be available new now. Which is a nice option

We've been working on the tachometer for the 510. They are pretty rare. The one I bought didn't operate and the good Captain helped me with that, but I didn't get the bezel that the tachs had and they are pretty much unobtanium, So we decided to cannibalize the old dummy light panel to make a bezel. I made some more progress today. I will try to make the finished pictures tomorrow I also plastic welded and stapled the torsion bar cover for the hatch springs. This is also a difficult panel to source and is pretty thin. Lime maybe 2mm. Hard to repair We will try to add some texture and paint it black

You should have no trouble selling that fan

It's pretty difficult to make the correct flair if you don't have a really quality tool

The tool I would recommend is expensive but a very nice tool... https://www.eastwood.com/professional-brake-tubing-flaring-tool.html?wickedsource=google&wickedid=Cj0KCQiAr5nKBhCpARIsACa_NiOCxo9Tdb7ZxmHMruB2h5o6q90RPhM5N2lJ1bggqy0RMY7xCKeZeJwaAjSrEALw_wcB&wickedid=730838757115&wcid=22174107587&wv=4&wickedsource=google&wickedid=Cj0KCQiAr5nKBhCpARIsACa_NiOCxo9Tdb7ZxmHMruB2h5o6q90RPhM5N2lJ1bggqy0RMY7xCKeZeJwaAjSrEALw_wcB&creativeid=730838757115&wcid=22174107587&wv=4&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22174107587&gclid=Cj0KCQiAr5nKBhCpARIsACa_NiOCxo9Tdb7ZxmHMruB2h5o6q90RPhM5N2lJ1bggqy0RMY7xCKeZeJwaAjSrEALw_wcB

I had seen the Toyota on BaT and was going to post it up... Many of the cars from this era are too small for me. It one reason I probably won't ever have a Ferrari. The ones I can afford are too small. The 240Z is nice and roomy an anomaly of the day it seems