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Trying to decide on what to install next. Put the rear end back in? Can I put the driveline in after the rear end is in? I assume there is enough play on the yoke to accomplish that? Should I put anti seize on the fill and drain plugs on the diff?

Anyone know if synthetic 75/90w oil is fine for the diff? Also the gasket has a green side and a dark grey side. I assume dark grey is towards iron and green towards aluminum?

I really dig the gold zinc and aluminum of the datsun world. Looks so cool.

Seats came back today and I got them installed, I am beyond happy with the. My friend that did the upholstery really made them perfect, he steamed and stretched them. He said the fit couldn't have been more precise.

More gold! This time rear end bits and pieces. Someone how they forgot a bolt in the box. Now I have 1 single bolt not done.

I screwed up and didn't add a drain for doing redkote. With the baffles and such it would have been too hard to drain. So I had the shop put this in. Now time to fix the powder and do the redkote. 2 steps forwarder and 1 step back.

Bc are welded. My buddy is professional welder and he did the tig welds for me.

Here it is. It started off as a wet sand blasting unit from amazon. Basically hooked up a pressure washer to sand. It sort of worked. I took the pressure washer side off and added air. Now air goes where the water went with a quick valve and a slurry of glass bead/ water goes where sand went. I need to test it.

I spent around 2 hours cleaning the seat sliders, then re greasing them. Wow they were filthy. I also had some surface rust on the seat bottoms so they got a powder coating. I saw a sneak peak of my seats at the upholstery shop. They look amazing, all new foam and padding.

I Have been working on this for a while. Trying to get it one uniform finish. Which seems to be impossible. I have been building a vapor blasting setup and might try it on this and see how it turns out. It's come a long way from tar, grease and paint covered.

How did you decide to do it in this order? I am hopefully getting to about the same spot this weekend.

All of this is going off to paint and powder tomorrow. So much to tape off. I might give up on all the u joint areas and just paint them, that way I can just use a wire wheel to clean the paint off. Hard decisions.

That's the plan, poly in the front and ruber in the back. I had two good washers. So I only need one kit.

Are they yellow zinc?

I only have two of those that are good. Two are ruined. I am going poly and I think i will get rubber for the backside of the tension rod like people have said.

I actually live in Sandpoint. I love it here. I don't see a lot of z's in my area. Got the front mostly installed. Some of the zinc chromate seems to rub off with lots of handling. I will need to contact the platers. Googling it seems to say the same thing, can be rubbed off and gets harder with time. It was plated 2 days ago. Hopefully it changes. Or maybe they did something wrong? Zinc is the part that is electroplated. The chromate (yellow) is just a coating. Sure looks pretty

Almost all big cities have a plating shop. My local large city, Spokane Wa has novation. I need to find a local vapor blasting shop! Having fun tonight installing parts:)

First batch of gold is back! Time to put some stuff back in this car!

How fun is a stock 240z motor to drive? I sadly have never driven a z.

Stock pattern, they are probably the same kit:) I just paid too much. I really like the gold of the BC. I got standard stud length, but they seem long. This happened, ended up ruining it. Vise, vise grips, tig welded a bolt to the end, everythig failed. Dry to drill out, and again that failed and I had my bit walk. Oh well, this is the first bolt-bolts that I couldn't get off! Now time to find a new thermostat housing.

Got my BC Coilover kit!! I should have the fronts done this weekend. Still waiting on the auto shop to have the bearings pressed out.

Overspray/ Paint look way worse in person. Just FYI.

This is a little bit of bragging. But I changed out a bulb, and this light bucket looks brand new. How crazy.

Thanks guys. I will try that first. Gotta get it driving. Then I can focus on the details