Bambikiller240

Thank you to the several people who responded to my plea with offers of a washer. I've been blessed with a washer being sent to me to replace the one that I lost track of. Thanks again Carl

That's a good one George. I suspect that the US will find those weapons soon. (as soon as we can manufacture and plant them!)

Which parts are you calling "rollers" ? 240Z seats have mounting tracks that are of a "slider" style, and attach to the seat supports with studs and nuts. My early 1972 240Z came with reclining seats from the factory. Also, though I haven't done it myself, I have a friend who installed seats from an early 260Z into his 1973 240Z and he says it was a straight bolt on with no modifications required.

Been preparing the passenger side floorpan for POR (inside and outside) Stripped paint off last week, Marine-Cleaned and Metal-Ready applied today. Friday, 2 coats of POR15 inside and out. Saturday, apply ChassisCoat Black inside and out. Sunday, rest and get ready to assemble rebuilt L24 engine.

Our member 26thZ reported as follows: The quote I got on May 14th was $582 US from the Washington State "consolidation point". I remember round trip shipping from Florida to Washington was $150 for my dash. __________________ $582 USD includes Restoration and shipping to and from AU back to USA West Coast plus $150 shipping from West Coast to East Coast USA = $732 USD to restore your own dash. The one at MSA is a Nissan Factory Original UnRestored Dash. No telling when it was manufactured. Could already be 10 or 20 years old.

Here is a diagram of an installatiopn, and a picture of a set of what you need for a complete set of end links. You need: 8 bushings (rubber or polyurethane) 8 cupped washers if using polyurethane bushings The images below show polyeurathane bushing kits. Courtesy of http://www.energysuspension.com/index.html

Not on any of the 3 - 240Z's that I've owned. The 3 nuts that mount the down pipe to the exhaust manifold flange have been 14mm stainless steel hex nuts, and the nuts and bolts that attach the intake and exhaust manifolds to the cylinder head have been 12mm hex nuts/bolts. Per Z Car Microfiche CD: Nuts (manifolds to head) = p/n 08911-10810 Nut - Hex Nuts (Ex Manifold to Downpipe) = p/n 20600-87100 Nut, Fixing; Tube End (these are Stainless Steel Hex nuts)

19mm Wrench required for these.

Can anyone PLEASE help me with a part that I seem to have lost while moving my disassembled engine from one work space to another last December? I need that really thick flat washer that goes under the crankshaft Dampner bolt of an L24. Without that washer, the Crank Dampner mounting bolt bottoms out before tightening the Dampner to the crankshaft securely. I'm ready to assemble the engine now that the short block is back from the rebuilder and just discovered that it is gone. I need to find one pretty quickly. I can't believe that I've lost it. I have everything (er, ALMOST everything) labeled and in plastic bags, but I've looked everywhere (all day long) and it is nowhere to be found. Please reply or send me a PM if you can help me out with this item. Thank you. Carl

Gavin: I finally got to view your FLASH website. Nice work. It looks really good. It didn't take too long to load. Maybe because I'm used to my 56K modem connection?

Yeah, definately rare for shipping costs to be quoted. Nice to see that some company has balls enough to publish that info. (I wasn't trying to slam you post, as I'm sure more than one person will be interested!)

But what size wrench did you need to use for the bolts? I think that is what we are talking about here. FWIW, check out Lawson Products next time you need bolts or nuts. I've ordered bolts and nuts from them that have the correct hex head size (even MM sized, i.e. 10, 12, 14mm etc.) and they seem to have many if not all thread pitch variations available as well.

and trying to get parts for it in the US will probably be B I T C H !

The grille?

Motorsport Auto sells (or used to sell) them in white or black

Minilite did make some of their wheels in Aluminium for road car applications. BTW, the Magnesium wheels are also brittle, and can be porous as well. Where an aluminium wheel may bend, a "Mag" wheel can CRACK or SHATTER.

While these may be "unusual" sized, they are still "EVEN" sized.

Can't help you much, but a Magnesium Wheel should be a lot lighter (weight) than an Aluminium wheel. You might be able to find out how to determine what you have by contacting Minilite Wheels and asking them. Just a thought.

The only one that I recall off the top of my head is the 27mm bolt that mounts the Crankshaft Dampner to the Crankshaft. Oh, there are some 17mm ones (somewhere), but at the moment, I can't remember where they are. (outer spindle pins??) I'll check around on Weds or Thurs when I am under the car next.

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Hmm, interesting. You certainly could be right about that. I'll try both wrenchs and see if there is any noticable difference in fit. If they "created" a hybrid fitting, I'll have to ask next time if they can "create" the right 10mm fitting. They had mentioned that most of the wait for the lines (almost a month) was for the fittings to be made. I assume they out-sourced them. Thanks for the info. Where did you have your lines made, Walter?

Hi Marty; I did receive the rear brake bridges from ClassicTube. They are in Stainless steel and look great but it took them a while to make them for me. HOWEVER, the Hex size is 11mm rather than 10mm. The diameter and thread pitch is correct for the fittings, but I'm told that Nissan used an oddball (10mm) hex size that isn't available anymore. The extra 1mm gives a bit more "meat" for the wrench to grasp onto, and distribute the stress applied by the wrench, I'm told. Since my flarenut wrench set has 10,11,12,13,14,15mm sizes, and I'm not going for a 100 point resto, I'm OK with the minor difference. Not that I have much choice, since the late style right rear bridge tube is NLA from Nissan. BTW, I wasn't able to find any pre-made straight lengths of brake line with the correct 10mm hex head size to fab my own replacement lines either. Everyone had only the 11 hex head fittings with the correct diameter and thread pitch.

Not anymore! Now he's "lunch"

Sorry, Didn't mean to make you mad. Just wanted to get my poke at you in before someone else took a shot at you!

Alfa is one of those unlucky fellows who has no Z, but we still like him and "allow" () him to play in our backyard.