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That video is almost in the top gear realm. I'll have to take some pictures of it and post them here to see what pricing range to aim for. I definitely definitely don't think it will need a video of that quality to accompany it. It is a daily driver (on nice days) and my commute is 100 miles round trip and it had some questionable areas when I bought it.

In the next year or two I'm going to have to sell my Z and I'm at a loss at the best way to sell it. I don't want to mess with ebay, too many bad experiences there, but I would prefer to minimize dealing with people and all the fun that entails with questionable test drives, lowball offers, no shows, etc. It is a daily driver and knowing each and every imperfection I'd give it about a 6 out of 10 so it isn't high end auction material. Anyone dealt with classic car consignment places? Any other suggestions? In my entire 50+ years I've sold 2 cars and one was to carmax so this isn't a process I'm used to doing. Most of the time I drive them until they have to be towed away for scrap. So any tips, hints or suggestions are appreciated.

I stumbled on it in this video. It should start right about at the audio clip https://youtu.be/aZOxn8ggX8w?t=384 http://240z.me

Just unwrapped this

I read several posts about using bread or grease to pop the old bushing out. My original one did not want to come out that way or with the tapered screw-in grease zerk shown below. I ended up getting a removal tool from harbor freight and grinding down the claws to where they would fit inside and pulling it out that way. It was a super cheap version of the bottom picture

When I was a kid I noticed people tailgating us and asked my Dad if it was because they wanted to show us they were as fast as us since we were in a sports car. His guess was that since our car was pretty small and they could see around it they felt confident driving up closer. That being said it doesn't annoy or worry me any less. I've thought it would be cool to build a small remote controlled box under the car that could chuck small rocks out on demand from next to the wheels. Just tap a little button and pelt them with a few stones that just look like regular ones kicked up from the road and see if they back off.

Mine used to sit dead center on the gauge and never move once it was warmed up. Then it started climbing to the edge of the M if I went over 65 on the highway. It could idle all day in traffic and stay at the center. Years ago a company truck where I worked would overheat only on the freeway. They decided it was a blown head gasket and bought a reman engine for it; while it was apart I convinced them they should get he radiator serviced. The guy at the radiator place said it had 2 tiny pinholes in it that once the heat and pressure started to climb would likely bleed off enough pressure to make it overheat like it was doing. But not leak enough to show. For my Z I got a pressure tester and I found I had a radiator hose that wasn't sealed perfectly. At full pressure only when I'd move the hose would it leak. I tightened all the hoses and now it climbs a bit above the middle on the freeway when it is 75 or hotter out but not as high and I have to get on it pretty good to get it to do that. I may still have a tiny leak somewhere but I'm not a huge fan of pressurizing the 45 year old heater core

Picked up a new bushing from a different supplier, put it in the freezer for awhile and it went right in and is flush with the bottom of the taper. Thanks again to everyone for the responses.

thanks for the replies. It doesn't seem bottomed out, but just won't budge past that point. I'll pick up another today make sure the bore is clean and try again.

Does the pilot bushing go in until it is flush? Mine doesn't want to go past where it is in the picture

When I pump it up to the 13 lbs pressure, how long should it take to bleed off if the system is good? Mine drops slow enough that you can't watch it drop but over a half hour or so it moves a few pounds.

I once had a screw go in the bottom of the tire and out the sidewall, split the sidewall wide open. The tire fix in-a-can that I had did nothing to help that. Might have been a one in a million shot but I still like having a spare.

I really want a spoiler on the front of my Z but it has been so long since I had anything on the front like my old Z that I know it would take way too long to adjust to stopping early at curbs and the one time I forget.......

Finally a situation where I didn't throw out the old part when I tried the 'better' new one. I didn't realize the rubber ones weren't available anymore. I tried the poly bushing and although I loved the solid feel in corners they were to few on my commute to make it worth the harshness the rest of the time. Now that the commute is growing near 2 1/2 hours round trip and the roads are falling apart smoother is often better. I have an attic filling up with original and spare parts but 9 out of 10 times when I need the original again it was an item that I thought 'why would I need this someday' and threw out.

I'm going to hand out a few of these badges too

under the 'old is subjective' category I have a 1995 picture

There are thin pieces of plastic, I don't think they do too much to stop the heat though. When I added insulation to the fuel rail it seemed to make mine worse which went with the thinking that the heat is largely coming from the block. At one point I thought of trying something like cutting out a section of the supports and replacing them with exhaust hanger rubber clamped on both sides. That is what I did. And what has been recommended over and over in this thread. Prior to doing the fuel line change I added a fan shroud, insulation on the rail, an electric fuel pump at the tank and none did anything. So far with the new fuel line it has been a lot better. I haven't driven it in traffic on a really hot day yet but it is an improvement from the driving I have done. Personally I think the engine looks better without the mechanical fuel pump and fuel rail on it.

Around here the latest thing is to swap the fog light bulbs out for HID or LED bulbs that don't have the coating on the tip to help aim the light and the bulb is no longer positioned correctly. So people end up with their fog lights being super bright flood lights. They pull up behind a semi trailer and the thing is lit up top to bottom. It gets worse every year as the 'upgrades' get cheaper.

In all fairness as you said yourself they are in the middle of a frenzy of orders. This is Black Friday at Walmart. My advise would be once you get an order placed, leave it alone unless you want to go to the back of the order pile where someone else might get the last one before you. Trying to save even more on your orders with a custom updated shipping quote cost you and that is a bummer but it happens. From my time in customer service, raising incredible hell often gets the 'we are done' response; even if not verbal the effort is gone at that point. The nice guys would get me to work through my lunch to solve their problem. And sometimes there just isn't anything that can be done. They can't make more of the parts. Besides, as you said with the feeding frenzy of orders, when they hang up with you they've got a pile of calls and emails and orders to process for customers that aren't yelling at them. If I had to guess I'd say they didn't anticipate how big the response would be to this sale. Many of these prices are Saturday morning yard sale level so to expect any additional consideration when something falls through do to counts being off or orders getting moved back in the line seem a bit much.

That is usually what happens to me right after I think "wow, that went well". Then I look over and see the bump stop I forgot to put on the strut.

That is something worth looking into as I'm planning to go with Hagarty. My guess is that Hagarty would pay our your claim even though it is the other drivers fault and then they would go after the other driver's insurance to get as much of their money back as they can. That is what my regular insurance did for our latest impact. I don't think Hagarty could force the other company to pay the agreed value price but they'd get what they could out of them and cover the rest.

It might be too early to know but is the other driver taking responsibility or claiming it wasn't their fault? I recently got rear ended in our other car (it was a nice day so I almost drove the Z) and the guy tried to claim another car had hit him and pushed him into us and then left the scene; even though there was no damage to the back of his car. When I told the officer that if the other car went around us like he said then I'd have footage of them on my dash cam the cop walked away with the other driver for a bit and came back and said "He isn't certain he was hit so he's going to take responsibility." then he smiled and asked "do you really have a dash cam?". Now I'm adding rear cameras to go along with the front ones that are already on all of our cars.

So these will fit a 240Z just fine? Nice.

My exciting work on the Z was tightening up the clamp on the upper radiator hose. I've been chasing a problem where the water temp would climb higher than I'd like when I'd drive it at higher RPMs for any length of time. It was fine around town at at freeway speeds around 65 but anything higher and it would start heating up. Past experience with a company vehicle had me thinking it might be a small leak in the system that was bleeding off just enough pressure to let the temperature climb in that situation. They replaced the engine in a truck with similar symptoms that ended up having a couple pinhole leaks in the radiator. I couldn't find signs of coolant leaking anywhere and it didn't seem to drop coolant level at a noticeable rate. Pumped up the system with a pressure tester and finally found a small leak at the upper radiator hose that only showed up noticeably once I edged past the radiator cap pressure limit. I tightened it up and the system held pressure much better. Now in 3 months when it finally cools off I'll be able to test it. Sometimes it is the stupidest little thing and really easy to overlook.

No problem either way. I eventually get used to things once they change. It just takes me longer and longer every year