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240Z: Parts back from Zinc plating, now sorting and assembling
So yesterday i got the box with parts back from the plating company. Everything got cleaned, zinc plated and yellow passivated. The colour is slightly different then last time (more redish). Probably due to the changed regulations for the mix of chemicals used for this procedure. Still quite happy with the result. Took me a while to sort through all the parts, but mostly figoured it out by now 🙂 Started with the re-assembly of some parts. From this… To this (Hose brackets) From this… To this (hood closing mechanism..) This (the other part of the hood closing mechanism… (x2) And then finally got all the parts ready to re-assemble…
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240Z: Grill disassembly and check
Since i have all of my body panels together, i wanted to have a look at the last possible “unknown” area. The front grille. I never had a close look at it and wanted to make sure it’s OK. Well it’s not (of course :D). Started like this. It seems like there are various versions of the grille around, but it appears that this is a fully original 1972 one. The middle finis shorter, which also seems to be original design on this type (the edges are rounded, as the others, so definitely not broken-off) Everything is just plugged together and then secured with four long and thin bolts on…
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240Z: ignition Switch cleaned, assembled, ring painted, new lower corner valance
This week has been the most busy one car-wise in a while 🙂 Well. I guess that’s good?! Thist itme i’ve cleaned the ignition switches again thoroughly and assembled them back. Tried to keep the original patina but clean it. And made sure all the contacts are fine. Then installed one of them directly to the previously finnished steering column: Really fun to start putting completed parts together to even bigger completed parts 🙂 Had the covering ring cleaned, since the old paint wasn’t nice anymore: Resprayed it with some rattle-can car-paint in flat black and had it drying under the lamp for a day: And then put it back…
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240Z: Parts ready for Zinc re-plating, New parts in
Was quite busy this week with the Z’s small projects that have been going on. I’ve been cleaning and exchanging the partsi n my tumbler almost daily and today i finally had them completed: Now all is packed up and ready for zinc re-plating and yellow passivating. Which means i have to wait for the parts for approximately one week before i can continue. Pretty happy with the result by the way. The Tumbler was well invested money. just took me some years to figure out how to use it properly 🙂 During preparation process i also fixed some parts which where slightly worn out. Like this one. Before: Straightening…
