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Just had to say that was very funny..! 👀

What strikes me in that pic @AK260 is that the cable with nr:5 on the distributor is on the wrong spot? (1 is on front normally and then 5-3-6-2-4... ?) Your distributor axle is not installed properly or that number is on the wrong cable.. oh yeah i sayd it already.. i'm a "muggezifter.. hahaha..) Sorry Ali !!! 🙂 NICE clean engine compartment though! 👍

Yeah... to answer your question.. no i did'nt let it get to me. (when i was restoring my 280zx slick roof..) even when someone broke the 3th !!!! windscreen i kept relative calm.. The first one had a pit in it it broke later on when in storage.. so my own fault. the next was 400 euro and the girlfriend of my 1st painter broke it while cleaning the house.. but till this day she does not confess.. never seen the screen.. yeah whatever! the third was a co-worker of my 2nd painter.. then i had to order a 4th screen pff.. so don't let it get to you.. Restoring a car is ALWAYS more work than you think.. Patience is my biggest trump.. what's yours? 😉

The topic is.... Can i use broken drivers side door handle on passenger side?? BTW... have we all read this correctly? you can't use a broken one! On any side!! (Yeah i know i'm what we call overhere a : "muggezifter" ... No translation possible.. let say someone who is very critic on his (or sometimes other peoples) work.. 🙊

Those doorhandles are made of zamac.. It's a disasterous "metal" a mix of aluminium,copper,zinc.. it rusts from the inside of airbubbles that are IN the alloy.. so you can't stop the decay The ornament "Z"on the c-pillar, (air outlet), are also made of that stuff.. a restorers nightmare! 😞

I'm sure i got a set of 4 bumperretttes in good used state.. i sold one set some years ago local for 250 euro.. excl. shipping let me know if your interested.. (mind.. i'm in europe..)

When i saw your fender.. i knew thats trouble.. i hope the part thats UNDER the fender is not completly rotten away.. so show us the part under the welded fender.. Often that part has lots of rust as it is a water and mud catching part especially when you weld that fender shut...

While your waiting for a rear part you could take the rear part out.. and maybe you could repair the part you take out and pull the floor part back to it's original spot! i would try that first, there is a good chance it works! When you take out the rear the structure is much more easy to pull back to the right spot. You need something to pull the floor and so, a hydrolic dent repair set is not that expencive and.. you can use it for more projects! 😉 Drill out the orig weldspots so you can later on weld the part after repairing it back into the rear of the car.

Maybe you have or know someone with fire wood.. they sometimes have wood of fruit trees.. thats also a fine wood to work with, and most times it's already dry. BTW... do i need to change the (name of the) topic to: how do we make a steeringwheel yourselfs? 😉 (Also i thought about it to make a bent in some of my walnuttree branches so i can later on use the round parts for a new wheel in my almost restored 280zx!.. )

Eh.. it's 2021 also in new jersey.. As it's a 1974 car.. you mean a 47 year old car recently sold? It could have been a 1978 260z over here in europe.. they excist! we never had the 280z.. 260z's were build from 1974 till 1978 and the 280zx was the follow up in 1979 here.. (maybe a few late 1978 280zx's in other euro country's i don't know but the Netherlands had them in 1979..)

You could go for the 412a or something it is compatible for the old system and oil.. investigate ..

That enginenumber is CLEARLY not the original number! complete different shape of numbers.. stupidity to do!

Yeah.. at the time i had and stil have 2 spare ones.. A write up? Yes can be aranged her it go's ( if something is not clear due to the language diffs you tell me.. Pff.. hope to remember it all hahaha.. (not gonna use any translator aid..) First you buy some nice wood very dry.. not dry.. leave it in the neagbourhood of the heating in your home but not to close for a year at least (resanable dry wood to start..) i used mahogany.. You take a board and put 6 pieces of wood very nice cut in 60 degree angles (2 x 30 degree is that) in a cirkel, wood has to be at least 6cm in diam. and 2 cm high (inches.. you figgur it out haha) yea figure or so (i say boejuuuhh 😉 ) In the middle a piece of same hight of wood on ther you put the woodmill centering on.. you need a few different wood cutting tools for your mill, one is a round head of 6,5mm. and one with a round curve of about.. 2,2-2,5cm? Last one first you mill the 6 pieces into a round part ones inside once outside. This you do twice (as you need a front and back part.. ) One you have to do the inner 6,5mm milling first, then turn it around and do the outside part. ow yeah... you do NOT mil right through the whole dept from the wood, leave a mm or so otherwise you'll see some flying parts.. not good.. After milling the 2 ..iside,outside you take of the round parts (mark the parts that you know where what part came from and go's back..) Now you need some glues and clamps.. you glue the wood with woodglue (duuhh 😉 ) to the next part of wood and the whole top cirkel with 2 component glue to the top of the wheel steel ring (of about 6,3mm thick) (the wheel is cleared from the fake wood and sprayed black Satin.) You do the glueing all at ones so wood to wood and wood to steel ring all at ones. (so be sure that every part fits PERFECT before starting the glue work.) After it dryed well u can sand it.. Now you have to make the fingers in the wheel at the back.. use some old wheel as a example and draw lines on your wheel where the finger-deep spots go.. then you take a powerfile (i got the simple black&decker) and you make the deep part in the middle and finally the 2 sides of each low part.. then you need a LOT ot sanding to make it all smoooooóóóótthh.. 😉 ) then.. paint..paint..paint..paint..paint..paint..paint.. it with laquer and don't forget to sand inbetween.. Use some fine grain wood and it MUST BE VERY DRY !!! I used as i sayd some mahogany amd it was dry but i dried it for half a year in my livingroom near the heating. And to end this.. tell me ... honestly Jeff, you couldn't believe i made that wheel myself huh? Hihihi.. I have met more people that can't believe it.. or question it.. I can't help it... i got two right hands (as they say overhere.) (Meaning a handy guy..) The bad thing is i don't have much energy, I aways say, i can do it (almost) all, but i can't do it (at) all.. meaning i know how to... but don't have the energy to do it all.. At times it makes me very sad.. today for example i saw a nice 260z for sale.. (complete but in parts) I would love to buy and make it a nice car.. but i have lots of other jobs that need to be done first.

When it's off and you put the contact to on it stays off i expect? but after starting the car it starts playing.. that would be due to some spike-ing in your supply voltage, also could be a problem in your radio.. it should stay off.. (problem of these "modern" audio systems..) a fat electrolytic capacitor over the supply (red cable + ) could bring the solution.. use a capacitor of 1000 uF/25 volt. (plus to positiv and minus on ground!!)

Use some paint that you can weld on between the sheets of metal , i don't know the name of it but i have some silvery paint that you can weld on, ask a good weldshop for it. (i could look for the name but you got there in australia another brand i think..)

By the time i got these from japan sended to me in the Netherlands they were around 10 euro a piece so not really cheap.. but they last 20 years so a good investment.

In 2007 i did'nt have a smartphone so.. no, sadly not.. i do remember to show it halfway to a friend it was in clamps while the glue dried, and i told him: here i show you my wheel.. just that when you see it when it's ready you believe me when i say i made it myself.. If you want a wheel like that.. about 600 euro , i make you a new one from an old wheel.. (if i can stil buy that mahogany wood in a super dry state.) It's made of 12 parts 6 being on front are hollow.. about 6.3mm you need a mill for that.. At the time i asked myself.. buy a wheel or a mill.. the mill was chosen.. i can use it more often and.. make my own wheel! I could make you a write up how to make a wheel? ... it's a lot of work, took me about a week*. And a bit more because of the 7-8 layers of lacquer! (I seriously/.. lost count.) * As i'm a bit disabled due to accidents at work and privatly i can work/hobby a few hours a day at max...

It's very likely the pressure sender that's become leaky inside after 30-50 years.. get a new one. (On a 280zx sender there comes oil out of the elec.connector!) Yeah i got that when i put the idle speed near the 500 rpm's.. it's normal (i do have a new pres.sender on my block) What you both can do very easely is: start the car warm up and let it idle at 700 rpm, take off the oil cap and look (with a light) inthere if the cam is beiing lubricated? Then// all is well! (as it is the highest part to be lube'd

I would make good pictures of the condition it is in now, dated with todays newspaper on the hood so you can later on say it was not a wreck and do a new paintjob.. and.. as the windows are in rubber.. (easy diy-job) .. take them all out.. i hate half jobs on these cars. do a proper job and it will not lose but win in resale value!

But.. do they have a recline handle on the outside? if not they brobably are type 1's... i think..

Bit bigger.. Made this in 2007 and it's stil beautiful, a bit fatter than the original.. for my tiny hands...

Thats easy.. my steeringwheel, i did a bit of fine wood work but this one takes the cake! What's yours!!?? (you see it in the little pic on every topic/answer)

NEW TOPIC in the make: i fire it up NOW! : What is your most valuable "made it myself" PART! 😉

Partnr: 32855-H1010 (bush cont pin) for the horizontal bushings and 32861-N4200 for the lower knoby bushing under on the stick! I bought these parts 5 years ago orig from nissan japan. (Could be agojama japan) i think these partnrs are the latest..

Here some endresults.. Sanding it.. rear part fender also the lower part is new.. (To make this i used a small english wheel.) English wheel.. (rubber on the top for not curving it in the length.. just only curving on the left-right..) the end result,