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Simple green is pretty benign. if it takes the paint off Purple Power probably will too. Drop back to hot water and Dawn dish soap. You might be able to up it to dishwasher soap which is a little stronger...

Magnets are important! I have some fender pads but without magnets they won't stay in place. I have asked for someone to put magnets on them for Christmas for two years now but no luck...

Using the emergency brakes shouldn't make them drag. Brake shoes not returning could do it or brake cylinders corroded and not returning could do it... Those are my first thoughts

Glad you're ok Cliff! I had it in 2020. It took a while to get fully over it.

Yes, I agree it's different in Europe!! Your car is worth more in Europe than in the US, so your $50-60k is still probably a little low. If you had to replace your car, what would it cost? A similar candidate in Europe costs what? Importing a car from he US would be the $50-60k plus importing costs... My2cents...

The forum can be a funny thing. It is easy to misunderstood or to take offense where none is intended. Sometimes it's good to read things a couple of times to try to determine what a poster really intends.

That was part of my reason for asking. For most of the members here there is enough anonymity that people can't find you, don't know you or connect the dots. There are many people here that I have no idea what their name actually is (Zed Head for instance). In a situation like that, it seems the information would have very minimal opportunity for blow back. That was the case when the sellers were anonymous... As for sellers that sell below what someone else thinks they should, who cares...when the critic owns the car they can sell for whatever they want. These cars have appreciated greatly, but we are not a Ferrari or Porsche level marque and I would hate to see the classic Datsun go that way...

Yes, I will reply with some pictures Friday or Saturday

Congrats on the excellent sale! It was very well done and deserved a good price. Don't spend it all in one place 😉

My experience has been that headers tend to leak more often than the cast manifold. A high quality header, maybe not... I just don't think they're as dimensionally stable as the cast mainfold

I wasn't really looking for specifics... I thought it would be an interesting anecdote if a survivor Z like this could be found for a reasonable number. After watching BaT, cars like this bring, sometimes, serious money. I thought it would be encouraging to others who might be looking for a car to validate that nice cars are still available for a reasonable price. That is why I asked

My main heat source in the shop is an overhead forced air closed burner propane unit, but it stirs up a lot of dust. I can probably get the heat up, keeping it warm would be a problem until it's out of dust. So your just letting your overspray settle where it wants? No forced air movement? No concerns about the open burners and paint fumes going boom? C

Disappointing...

Its been slow for me for a while. On my phone I get a blank white page for a minute or more S8+

Super!

Chris, I'm sure its colder there than here. How are you heating your space, maintaining heating, fresh air? I'm stalled on paint because of low temps C

Your best bet would be a law enforcement search if you had the VIN number and were friends with a cop

Could you provide a ball park on the cost of a car like this? After looking at cars trading on BaT a car like this should have been fairly expensive...

Pretty Car

Harbor freight has little assortment boxes. I bought three a viton assortment, a nitrile and an EPDM?

If the vin on the firewall and the vin on the shock tower match the title, I would work on getting reproductions for the other locations

I have found if the jamb side latch is too far in towards the interior, the door runs out of room before the second latch engages. Sort of a compromise between the door sealing good and being able to get the second catch

Says it fails but not which side of 13.5 or 15.4. So it could be too high

Thats probablythe thing I hate most about body work! The assemble, disassemble, reassemble, disassemble ...

So I took the block and rotating assembly to a local machine shop about the end of August. He finished it right before Christmas. I picked it up a week ago. Stock bore and stroke is 85mm x 86mm. We punched it out to 89mm. I sourced the pistons from Dave Rebello I believe they're KA's turned down They sonic checked the block after boring. I was told the minimum would be 0.0100". We are well within that. All line bored and balanced Everything has a witness mark so we can reassemble the way it was balanced Crank was turned 0.010 & 0.010 es w The challenge now is getting bearings. I have the rod bearings now but am having trouble getting the main bearings. I made another order the other day because the first order got delayed. Many places were saying end of April for bearings!! Evidently freeze plugs are hard to get too. That is why one of them is steel and not brass. Any recommendations on engine paint? Not super obsessive about true Datsun blue but would like it to be close.