240Z: Disassembly day 1

I spent more days digging through all my collected parst and boxes, and getting stuff organizied for the final phases of the project.

And then realized that I still need to replate many of the original fasteners. Since I mostly have 2 or more pieces of each item, which I need, I decided it’s better to also disassemble the spare units and take loads of pictures. this will help me put everything back together later, but will also allo wme to have nice spare-parts ready or make one-out-of-two, and so on. So i spent the recent days disassembling loads of stuff:
Like the master-VAC / Master brake cylinder and brake balancer:

after:

Clutch slave cylinder.

Naster cylinder:

OEM brakes:

All of them disassembled:

Alternator. I don’t know what happend to my car before. it appears like there was an oil explosion at some point. ALL of the engine-compartment parts have a thick layer of black greasy (oily?) coating on them. Before:

After. I didn’t want to go further to not damage anything that doesn’t need repair, but wanted to do this to get some parts replated:

Fan, Clutch and water pump pulley. As you can see, I also took the opportunity to find the correct parts that I had collected over the years and store them in the same box now. That makes things so much easier:

Thermostat / housing:

Disassembled:

Some parts were pretty heavy corroded (including holes). luckily I was able to find spare parts for many fasteners and small bits in my collection: Like this thermostat hose adapter:

Engine water piping (from two cars):

Again, i have plenty of new stuff on hand: It’s so much fun to find all the correct little pieces:

Sometime sit raises some questions too. One of my cars had a water pipe piece that missed that little Y-pipe joint. A bit of scratching and I quickly realized that someone had weld it shut in the past. and of course that weld rot away, so there is a hole now 🙂

I did a lot of other work as well. wait for tons of new fasteners, I removed some tomporarly installed parts from the car, I’m selecting different items from my stock to be installed on my car, I’m discussing with the zinc-plating companies, as it’s a bit tricky (Chrome 6 is prohibited now, which was the previously used yellow plating, but there are solutions), and there is so much more. Despite the lack of daily updates, I’m spending many hours in the workshop every day and it’s very rewarding, to say the least.