Hey All

Managed to get a new alternator at trade price for $180 suited to car and bolted straight in with no more than a few oily fingers. Thankfully I can now drive at night with the lights ON!

Thank you all for your help and suggestions

Ok this forum has been so helpful in the past that I thought I'd see if anyone could advise me as to which alternators will swap out easily with my 79 280zx original mitsi model. Really just need simular power and obviously matching physical attaching points... Just to confirm the problem is the al...

Yeah was thinking taking all that gear off might as well replace it. Cheapest place to get one? Was thinking just go through supercheap...

Repco told me $300 for a pressure kit so I asked my around and found a mate who was more than happy to help out :) looks like the water pump has popped a gasket or something as thats the general area the water appears to be squirting from.... So tomorrow I guess ill have a look and see whats wrong. ...

Unfortunatly its still leaking coolant but cannot see from where exactly. My guess is its the radiator itself but I'm really hoping to be wrong! But the coolant is settling on the plate that sits under the radiator and the hose connection feels dry... Can I buy one of those pressure testing pump too...

Relatively easy fix after all pumped some more water through it and cleaned the waterneck out, which seamed to fix the problem! Phew no more money till I try a warrant haha >.<

Ok so recently my daily was totalled by a drunk 16yrold in a stolen car so I now need to get the 280 back on the road asap! Started it up for the first time in a few months and apart from idol being a bit off, it started and drove fine! Didnt even notice the temp gauge had gone to max until steam st...

Just an update on this topic... The car stopped starting up completely a few days after I replaced the black box which I picked up second had from Dave. Had a few young mechanics check the problem out to see if they could shed any light on the problem without tearing it apart, and no, they couldn't!...

Cheers for that Olly ill have a look at that tomorrow and give it the once over. I went to the local auto electricion who my mechanic suggested, and he quoted $230 for that tiny little box! Ill give Dave a ring tomorrow and see if he has any floating around i could grab, perhaps for a few less limbs...

Ok so i cleaned out the dizzy without touching the bushings because it seams fine and i dont want to risk any further parts being replaced. Turns freely, all parts are intact and working fine, but in the top view picture the valve that comes off the main body is slightly ajar and has no gasket/seal ...

Sorry they are massive just sent straight from my phone

:) :) I got the Dizzy off without any problems and heres a few pics of it. Looks simular but double checking if its the same? I had a look at the link you sent me and it was very informative, well what I understood of it haha not that good with the terminology used. Do you suggest i attempt to open ...

Sounds like the same problem. I just checked the dizzy and its been replaced with a mitsi dizzy at some stage. Not sure which black box your meaning because there is a part of the actual base that has a black lid on it, is that it? But its a part of the base not detachable. Do you know any good mech...

Greetings all. I have just bought a nice condition 280zx 79 up in Auckland, or it was nice before it started randomly cutting out. The only thing I can see linking the few times it has happened is straight after going round a corner, although this may just be by chance. The engine does'nt give any i...