Chris Hammond
Saturday, July 18, 2009 7:51:31 PM
So just an FYI so others don’t waste money like I did. The steering column off a 1978 280Z will NOT fit on a 1973 240Z. I contacted the ebay seller to check before hand and was assured it would, unfortunately upon reciept and attempt at putting it in the car it does not fit :(
I guess I’ll just have to rig the bad 73 column for the haul to Colorado and look for another solution in the coming months.
Lesson learned, don’t trust ebay sellers to know what they are talking about.
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Chris Hammond
Monday, July 13, 2009 11:19:25 PM
Tonight I came home and started putting the suspension back together. Fortunately I hadn’t gotten too far with taking it apart, so I didn’t have too much to put back together. I decided since we only have a couple of weeks left I won’t try getting the other suspension under the car, I’ll just worry about getting it together and secured for the trailer ride to Colorado (http://www.going2colorado.com) later this month.
I got the front suspension bits together, though I didn’t bother to put the sway bar on for now. I then decided to pull the steering column to get the new one put into the car. That was easy, at least the pulling it out process, I stopped for dinner, but it sure looks like the replacement column isn’t going to work :(
I’ll have to try to get that in later this week.
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