Racer X

I'm going home. Wait, I'm already there.

Hurry.

Wow, not a single fat person. Not one. And all the chicks are perfect. Let's invent a time machine so we can go back in time and get some.

Here is a picture from JDM online that is sold as NOS. Looks like the 510 one could be cut and sectioned in a way the retains the size of the handle. Additionally the handle could be bent like the OEM part, and the lever dipped in that plastic tool handle dip to get the original look.

Thanks Captain. He lost me with arm button.

Why not just run the threads a bit farther along the pin with a die, then cut off the excess?

How much did you shorten it by?

Two weeks is forever when you can't go anywhere. This will be my third time. Just like the other two, I'm on the first day and already climbing the walls. We are social creatures, and most of us thrive on social contact. Take that away, it is a huge change, one that is a challenge to manage.

Well, it has happened again. For the third time since mid August, Racer has been sent home on quarantine due to contact tracing. This time it was the brother in law of a coworker testing positive, and the coworker and I have been working very closely for the last 8 weeks. Oh well, two weeks at home should be OK, after all, I have Datsuns to work on, eh?

Yeah, I think you live where the daughter and stepson retreat to when the hurricanes bear down on them. They load up stuff in the 5th wheel, hook up the pickup, shutter the house, tuck their tail between their legs and head inland.

Got up early today and took Mrs. Racer 2.0 to SeaTac and put her on one of those metal tubes headed for Pensacola. She is going to see her daughter, son in law and youngest grandson. She will be there for six weeks. So. Maybe everyone should come over, bring some hookers, liquor, you know the scene. Time to party. Oh, and I have never been good at math, but six weeks puts her return at 20 December . Looks like Racer is having turkey and pumpkin pie alone this year. One last bit. Walking out of the terminal I saw this helpful sign, posted in Canadian. Oh, and remember, wear your mask!

For sure, this is a car site, a very specialised car site, with a fairly small community of regular posters. The primary reason we all come here is our passion for the Datsun Z. We get to know each other, some even meeting up for a beer or coffee. And we all know what happens when people start talking politics. Discussions degrade into flame wars, people get butt hurt, hold their breath, clench their fists, stomp their feet and hurl a insults, behaving like children. But I wouldn't be opposed to having one place where things political could be discussed, in an adult and mature manner. Keep it simple, never get personal with comments, and no one is allowed to get butt hurt.

Nice bike. A dedicated bike lift is about 3 feet wide, and about as long as your Goldwing. It with also have a place for the front wheel to hold the bike securely, something a 4 post car lift doesn't have. Something like this: My Ram weighs around 8,000lbs or so empty, so I would need at least a 10,000lb lift, and a minimum ceiling height of 12 feet. My 4 post lift is too narrow, not long enough, and doesn't have the lifting capacity for the weight of the pickup. New Ram by Racer, on Flickr

My race Z has an oil cooler. The oil is passed to it from an adapter on the oil filter boss on the engine, through an Oberg oil screen, then to the cooler and back to the adapter and the engine oil passages. There is an oil temp sensor in the oil pan, and during a race the oil runs about 200 to 210 degrees f. The gauge reads from 140 to around 300. I hung some plates on it and took it for a drive to town once, and the oil temp barely made it to 150. When not running at full song, for sustained periods, the engine doesn't make enough waste heat to get the oil hot, so a thermostatic diverter valve would be needed if the car was driven casually more than in racing conditions. Sure, the oil gets hot enough to be felt on the oil filter, on a street driven Z. In addition to lubricating the engine, it also absorbs some of the waste heat the coolant doesn't get, and it is dissipated somewhat through the oil pan. I bet if you took a non contact pyrometer and meqsured, the oil pan and filter housing might read around 160 to 170. Certainly not too hot considering the oil is changed frequently, i.e. every 5,000 miles or once yearly on a car driven infrequently. As for the oil, I run 20-50 in the race car, and change it after every race meet. In my street Z 10-30 is fine, I'm only driving around town, not trying to be the first guy to the next stoplight. My 48 Ford 8N tractor gets the same 20-50 the race car gets, at 72 years old the flathead four engine still works hard. The Cummins diesel in my pickup, the diesel in my Kubota tractor and the Kubota mower all get Shell Rotella or Chevron Delo 15-40, oil formulated for diesel engines. My 2005 Subaru Legacy wagon calls for 5-30. Mrs. Racer has a 2012 Toyota Corolla, and it gets 0-10 oil, stuff is like water. I don't get too fussy about brands, although Kendall GT1 is what I use in the race car. And I never use additives. The oil manufacturers spend a lot of money and time figuring out the perfect addative package for each oil specification, and after it is consumed or otherwise altered from use, it is time to replace it. Oil is cheap to insurance for expensive engines.

Are any spammers smart?

I think it is a BendPak, but it isn’t branded, I’ll check when I get home today. And I like it a lot, save for the limitations mentioned earlier.

I would use a bike lift for bikes, much easier to securely and safely raise a bike for repairs and maintenance. Using a drive on 4 post lift for engine swaps can be done, but not as easily as with a 2 post lift. The ramps and structures of the 4 post get in the way of the cherry picker. As I mentioned, my 4 post lift has trolleys with jacks, so a car can be raised, the wheels removed, then the lift can be raised so wheel end work can be done while standing up. I have a transmission jack, so I can remove and replace transmissions, and do clutch work on the 4 post lift. I do all my lube/oil/filter work on the 4 post lift too. The lift also enables me to store a car, or one of my tractors and park another vehicle below it. But the 4 post lift isn’t big enough to lift my Dodge Ram 3500 dually, or my F150 Eddie Bauer, so when I do add a 2 post lift, it will be large enough for them.

See? There's those headlights!

I have a 4 post drive on lift, mostly because it was a screamin’ deal, a friend bought one and they shipped the wrong one, so I got it for cost. It has served me well, and has some wheel devices that can be attached to move it if I wish. They have come in handy as I have rearranged my layout a couple of times. It also has two jacks on trolleys for doing wheel end work. I still want to add a two post lift, as there are things that cannot be done on a 4 post lift, but I will be retiring next year, and we plan to sell and move, so that will wait until after the move.

And his relisted ad doesn’t have the added pictures, you still have to sift through all his comments and copy/paste the link to them.

You should switch hands once in awhile, eh? 😁

Most of them are non running cars given to me over the years. I need to drag them out of the bushes and see if there is anything worth resurrecting.

What's with those Marty Feldman eyes headlights?