Aug 2007

In mid-August my 1973 240Z was delivered and sitting in my garage. Unable to start. Gathering dust. I pleaded my case to my local area Z-car expert who kindly came to my rescue. The driver had killed the battery while trying to reset the timing in a parking lot near Clines Corners, NM, so that marked the first purchase specific to the new car.

I recalled that the Illinois driver thought he filled up the tank outside of Clines Corners with bad gas and added numerous octane boosters to the tank - which didn't help. I drained all of the old gas and put in new gas - unfortunately that didn't fix the problem, but it did prove that the tank held 15 gallons of gasoline and there wasn't any crud inside the gas tank. I swapped out the old coil with a new one, as the original coil would get SUPER hot when trying to crank over the car. So much for the easy fixes to get the car running again.

Item Description - Price Paid

TOTAL: $233.17