gundee

Road America

He came up to Road America a lot for the vintage races over the years. He raced my friends original 1964 289 Cobra several times. Before he was married he always brought a girlfriend with him. He loved the ladies. 😃

I used this place for my items. Way less money. They do smaller batches for automotive guys. Looked just as good. https://staging.craftcoating.com/craft-industrial-coating/

Here is the gland nut from the 1970's Red Koni's. FWIW

This is how mine turned out. Not sure if satin clear would look better than the gloss clear. I painted the spokes same as the tail light panel. I like it and can always go back to black anytime.

Good idea. I have bookmarked that link so I can study it. Thanks.

Got more wires than shown in wiring diagram. So many guys have taken apart and rebuilt column switchs I thought loads of info. here on this. I guess I was wrong. Very interesting. I will wring it out one way or another. If wire colors matched its pretty much a no brainer.

I seem to have some wires left to connect and not sure what goes together. I knew I should have taken a photo before taking apart. Any help would be appreciated.

Yes I did paint the spokes, but not black. As an experiment I painted same color as the tail light panel.

Well I pulled my steering wheel to refinish the rim. After cleaning and steel wool It looks like this. I may just use polyurethane on it like others here. I think that will still keep some patina. In some areas with very little wear, I can definitely see it has a cherry color to it.

This is the one I ended up using for my 240Z. Fits and works perfect. https://strongarmliftsupports.com/hatch-lift-support-c4313

CNN is surely further left than that chart shows. They and MSNBC are unwatchable for me. Not news. All leftist opinion.

Received my second Moderna shot 4 weeks ago. No side effects at all. Minor arm soreness on the second but none on the first.

My old Koni reds came with a regular nut and lock washer. I have removed and reinstalled several times over the years changing springs. No issues. I do not think I would use the nyloc nut in this situation. With the piston top being cut half, I can envision the nylon sometimes pulling the nut sideways enough to partially cross thread. Now there is metal in the threads and when removing I think that further jams the threads to fully strip. When I look close I don't think any of the shaft threads are any good. They are about totally gone at the bottom. I would recommend to Koni that this may not happen often, but to eliminate that possibility, change to nut and lock washer install.

The steering wheel cover looks good. Interesting. Its just that back in the 1970's I never saw a 240Z with a steering wheel cover installed. They are more common now. I worked in a Datsun dealership parts department and there was no Datsun supplied steering wheel option offered I ever saw.

Where did you get that idea? That is not what the washer is for.

Koni always had this issue from the start with 240Z's. I have a set of Koni 'reds" from 35+ years ago and we did the exact same thing to fit them. They are that tight. If I were Koni I would make them a wee bit shorter to make up for the welds on the bottom.

That looks like what I did on mine. I wish I would have taken a photo of the wires. I used an inline fuse holder to jump the 2 wires together.