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The starter freespools, like i put power to it and it just spins, doesn't engage. I will double check tonight and take some pics for you guys so you can "see" what i'm dealing with. I didn't go by atlanticzcars instructions, i just put a fuse in line from the starter pos to the white power wire on the frame rail, and hooked bat pos to that.

Ok, it's a 8/71 240z. The battery drains soon as i hook up negative terminal. I hook the jump box to it and it drains that as well. The starter free wheels no matter the key position, something is not hooked up right or is grounded out and i can't figure it out. i'm not even sure if the starter is hooked up properly as i can't find any pics and the diagram is strange, says bat+ goes to starter then to a fuse link then to the white power wire on the frame rail. I made a fusible link using a maxi distro block but that did nothing, I've never heard of hooking constant power to the starter but that seems to be the case here, when i remove it i get nothing. I'm trying to locate my voltmeter to check the starter is getting 12v to the ign switch or dieing off. Even when i just have power goin from bat+ to white wire on frame rail it drains. Jump box drains immediately even when fully charged and not hooked to battery just the terminals. Then there is the matter of the white w/ red strip wire located on the alternator, none of the diagrams i'm looking at mention this wire, just the black grnd, then the clip housing the yellow wire and the white/blck wire...

My apologies, i was in a rush, and didn't know if the first one posted. Do you have any insight on what i posted?

for some reason when i hook the battery up it pulls power, so i thought ok maybe the battery has a bad cell or something, even thought its a red top, so i hook the jump box up to just the terminals w/o battery and the starter spins freely but drains the jump box....checked the starter terminals they seem to be working, swapped out the starter with the one from the 280zx, same problem....somewhere some how i'm drawing power, and im not quite sure if it is all hooked up right...wiring diagram mentions altenator has a blk wire a white/blk wire and a yellow wire....well i have a white/rd wire hooked to pos on the alt and it doesn't talk about that in the diagram....ok...also diagram shows power goes from the battery to the starter, then from the starter to a fuse link on to the voltage regulator, well i found the white wire hangin there on the frame rail harness...hooked it to the battery and i get lights, great, but still click click, so i put an in line maxi fuse between the starter and the white wire and it still just spins. when i hook the pos wire to the starter it just spins freely, it did that before i got the jump box, thinking it was just just low voltage on the battery then it stopped spinning freely on the jump box but was goin click click. I'm extremely frustrated but can't give up, any help would be greatly appreciated. It may also help to know that i recieved this car after the previous owner pulled everything but the harness out and rebuilt the engine and put in a new transmission, but he didn't finish hooking everything back up. i've done away with the air pump and am cleaning up the hoses and whatnot, just a journey here and everything is back in that i know of, not sure of the electrical as i'm going but pictures online, chilton, haynes, factory service manual, just tryin to make this thing work. thanks in advance for any help, and yes i've searched and searched and searched and i have like 3 strands of hair left lol.

yes i have seen the one at that link, but it's a full vinyl top, mine only covers half of the roof :/

i have a 71 240z i just picked up 3 weeks ago and it has a black vinyl top covering the back half of the roof and almost the whole hatch...i've never seen this before and can't find pics of a Z with it anywhere...does anyone else have one or have pics of one?

broke a bolt off on the water inlet, then broke an extractor, can't drill through the extractor and don't have access to an edm...need a timing chain cover for for my stock 71 240z. i'm located in southern maryland 20685 email me at wkdintentions@gmail.com

if someone felt so inclined to take the first picture and draw on where the lines go and number them and say what they are, i would forever be in their debt. and would think of them first for anything i were to get rid of off the 71 240z or the 83 280zxt

SU carbs and no air pump.

does anyone have a write up on removing all un needed vacuum lines, i got a 71 240z which had the engine rebuilt and the previous owner did not hook anything back up, and i have searched long and hard, and can't find any diagrams, but i just want to bypass the emissions control system as it's un needed here. anyone with any input please help thanks in advance. i have a haynes, a chilton, and the an FSM and there is only one diagram but it is very vague.