I am also involved in several local clubs that promote racing and skilled driving events. Among those are the Oklahoma Z Car Club [OKZCC]. Also I am a member of the NEOKLA SCCA we hold local autocrosses and Road Rallys throughout northeast Oklahoma.]]>
Tulsa Area Chapter Z-heds doing their own repair or restoration projects know the value of a good salvage yard. In Tulsa, the common knowledge for many years was to seek out Henry at Ace Auto Salvage for used parts. My first visit there, however, was not pleasant. Just my luck Henry had retired and sold the salvage yard to someone who turned out to be less than interested in Z cars or customer service. I did not go back there for a long time. Then, I got a tip from OKZCC member Chuck Wilson who referred me to the personal salvage yard of Peewee in nearby Turley. After finally finding the place, I noticed something vaguely familiar while rummaging around the yard and talking with Peewee. Turns out that Peewee used to work for Henry at Ace and had bought all the Zs and ZXs and moved them to his own place. Peewee had my business for more than a year, until I got a tip at the monthly Tulsa OKZCC chapter meeting that Archer Auto Salvage was under new management the legendary Henry had bought it back. I believe persistence and loyalty, even if it is to someone you’ve never met, will eventually be rewarded. On my first visit back to Archer Auto Salvage, I was greeted by a scruffy version of Santa Claus who wanted to talk about Z cars and racing. Yes? at long last I was face-to-face with Henry. Each return trip to the Z-car salvage yard over the next two years felt like a family reunion. Henry would perch nearby to chat and watch me strip some part or another from a donor Z. Even though he claimed to be too old to run the yard and was supposedly retired, he always seemed to appear (seemingly out of nowhere) to talk Z cars and share tales of his racing at Hallett in the 1970s. I had mentioned to Henry that I was trying to save enough cash to invest in building a Z racecar, but the goal was still a ways off. I never gave much thought to that particular conversation until November 2006 when Henry met me as I got out my 280ZX at the salvage yard. Still want that race car? he asked. Sure, I said, and for the first time in my life, I actually had some money saved. Henry gave me the number of Tulsan Larry Childs who had raced at Hallett in GT2 and was thinking of selling his tube-frame 240Z. Childs had bought the car from Henry in about 1992 and converted to a sole-purpose competition machine. It was rough, but essentially ready to race. I looked it over and less than a month later it was mine. I did some bodywork on the steel fenders, cleaned up the hood, put on a fiberglass front bumper, and painted it with Duplicolor Fleet White (the cheap stuff). Fellow OKZCC member John Lucas machine buffed the entire car for me and vinyl decals gave it the finishing touch. This is the car that won the Sports Competition trophy at the Darryl Starbird car show in Tulsa last March, and that I drive in NEOkla Region SCCA autocross competition. I’ve also driven it at high speed at Hallett until I used up third gear on my last outing this past May. More visits to the boneyard are in my future, and I look forward to more visits with Henry.]]>
So I drained the fuel and pulled the bladder
Turns out that the bladder was made in 95 should have been replaced in 2000 and 2005
Priced replacements
Pegasus $635.00
HRP FS-RB110 $724.00 OUCH
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There should be a heavy gauge starter wire also going from the + terminal of the battery to the starter.
" brown and green wires are to go to the (+) terminal on the Starter."
I think that the wires do not have to be physicaly run to the starter. but they will have the exact same electrical potential.
( did that make any since ?)
"And on the ignition harness connector, where do the 2 black wires go? " Do they have white lines on them ? are they on the turbo harness or on the 240Z ?
Other helpful diagram.
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The spade connector was coroded and the connector was crimped on and loose.
Desided to replace this, and clean the male side on the sensor.
Put it all together and started it was still running very rough. So Chuck an I thought there must be a vacuum leak. So we did the take off the oil cap while the car was running, and the idle did not change.
Chuck found a bad vacuum line in the driverside front. We could not find any replacement line so Toni went to the parts store to get vacuum line and contact cleaner.
Remembered something I read about in one of my fuel injection books about unhooking the throtle position sensor and forcing it in to limp home mode. once I did this the car started to idle pretty good.
So I cleaned the throtle position sensor connector with contact cleaner. and while I was doing that I thought why not check the throtal posistion switch too. look its green thats not good. cleanes the TPS as well. pluged it all back together and started it. let it idle for a while then took it for a spirited test drive. looked like everthing was running fine but I could not get the boost over 0 PSI. took it back to lauries garage and found Mikes manual boost adjuster under the hood and turned it up a little. then took it for an even more spirited test drive. Apperently durring all of this testing I made Lauries neighbor unhappy (Waaaahh). So after all of that it is now purring like a kitten with warm milk.
Thank you to Chuck and Toni for all the help.
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First you remove the tank from the 240Z
Then gather ceaner/degreaser Marine Clean from POR-15 and a box of roofing nails. rubber gloves ect.
Pluged all of the lines with aluminum foil and zip ties then degreased and rinced tank 5 times.
to remove the fuel sender there is a slip ring.
Pulled the sender and gasket and slip ring to inspect inside of tank .
look at the crap that is in this tank.
More crap
How much more crap can there be in this tank ?
So I have now poured the Marine Clean in the tank 1/2 gallon and filled it up with water. instructions say to agitate it every few hours.( so I go outside and yell at the gas tank the neighbors think im nuts anayway) and to leave it for 24 hours. so I am currently waiting .
More tomorow.
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