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Early / Late Wheel Cylinders? - Wheels & Brakes - The Classic Zcar Club (classiczcars.com)

Really wanted help, not a hard time......Just saying. A google search brought up posts on different pages over 10 years old.

Well, my 240Z, dated 04/72 now has a rear wheel cylinder that is shot. I have read online that you can simply bend the line to make it work on a 1973 up cylinder. Is this the best option? A replacement early one is easily 5 times the price. Please advise. Joe

12-26-2021 UPDATE: Ok, so following advice I got, I went ahead and used a steam iron and a wet towel over the rear deck carpet and dash carpet cover. I had to keep getting the towel wet for maximum steam effect. The wrinkles came out! I also went ahead and took the vise grips off the repaired area on the louvers...it worked! Thanks for the help guys. Here are some pics:

Thanks a lot, Ken.

12-25-2021 UPDATE: Merry Christmas to all, and May the Lord Jesus Christ bless you all. I had a couple hours today, so I went to the garage, and prepped my rear spoiler, and then Wiped it down with Denatured Alcohol and sprayed it satin black. My masking worked real well....any overspray spots will come right off, as the clear is still to be sanded with 2000 grit paper and buffed. I painted the "Datsun" and "240Z" emblems, but the paint didn't adhere properly, so I will have to re-prep them once again, and give it another go! The pillar emblems just need the "z"' areas to be painted white (testers model paint??) I then took my louvers, which when I bought them had a crack...the seller DID tell me....I went ahead and lined up the crack, used the dremel to rough up both sides of the crack, and then cut 2 sheet metal pieces, dremeled them up nicely, and bonded the sheet metal pices to both sides of the crack with JB Weld, and used some vise grips to hold it together. I wiped the JB weld that came out so it will be easier to finish up later when I prep the louvers and paint them Semi Gloss black to match the rear spoiler. At any rate, here are some pics.

Thanks.

The streaks under the bumper are from me spraying the dusty bumper to wipe it off! Like I said, still needs more detailing and work. Thanks guys. Its a lot of work.....things are rusted on, don't want to come off, and so sometimes you have to bend, cut, etc to get it off, clean it up and then get it back on.....and thigns no longer line up.....for the pics it LOOKS like easy peasy 1-2 hours, but it was NOT. On a 49 year old car.....every time you work on a new area, you find old stuff that has to be replaced/fixed, even when it isn't a high mileage car. Now I will restore my factory asscessory louvers and re-insall. They will be semi-gloss black, just like the spoiler......these black pieces will match my rally stripe down the sides!

12/21/2021Update: I have most of the tail back together....still some more polishing to do and I need to paint the spoiler semi gloss black. The sides of the back bumper were HELL. The bolts on both sides were broken off from when I took it off, and the brackets were bent.....so I had to get inventive to get it mounted back on. The passenger side is the worst...again, because the gas tank is right in the way. Anyhow, still more to do on it, but so far doesn't look too bad.

they are the canisters......soemthing like OG/AV/P100

I purchased a 3M P100 respirator at Lowes Today for 40 bucks. Going to use non Iso paints from now on.

Thanks. Yeah, real scare. I purchased a 3M P100 respirator at Lowe's today.

SPRAY MAX 2K Gloss Clear....****DO NOT USE THIS!!! IT HAS ISOCYANATES IT IN, IT IS VERY POISIOUS, IF YOU BREATHE IT, IT CAN KILL YOU. **** I used it today and it screwed me up a tad even just a hour maybe 2 with a mask on (dental mask). VERY bad stuff. Please read and heed. It is the same as some of the professional body work and paint stuff. Those guys wear respirators to protect them. A shade tree guy can try to use it like KRYLON and hurt themselves BAD. Please avoid this and stay away from paint with Isocyanates in it. Like I said, just a tad exposure and I can feel it.

SPRAY MAX 2K Gloss Clear....****DO NOT USE THIS!!! IT HAS ISOCYANATES IT IN, IT IS VERY POISIOUS, IF YOU BREATHE IT, IT CAN KILL YOU. **** I used it today and it screwed me up a tad even just a hour maybe 2 with a mask on (dental mask). VERY bad stuff. Please read and heed.

SPRAY MAX 2K Gloss Clear....****DO NOT USE THIS!!! IT HAS ISOCYANATES IT IN, IT IS VERY POISIOUS, IF YOU BREATHE IT, IT CAN KILL YOU. **** I used it today and it screwed me up a tad even just a hour maybe 2 with a mask on (dental mask). VERY bad stuff. Please read and heed.

I then went ahead and painted inside the rear bumper. The rust converter was dry. The pic is terrible, but it at least gives an idea of what it looks like in there. That's Sunday, Cheers!

the spots I have to re-shoot. Prep is key! I thought it was good, it wasn't.

Life is so much easier when you buy a car in original paint and never been hit.

Ok....all ready, taped, prepped, FRESH PAINT! The rear spoiler will be semi gloss black.

12-12-2021 UPDATE: So I decided to go ahead and paint the tail and the hatch, and the roof portion from the hatch to the sunroof, and the back pillar sand almost half of the quarter panels. First I had to finish sanding out the bad spots. I got that done, and began sadning teh rest with my orbital sander adn 1000 grit paper. (It actually privides enough adhesion for paint, and the majority of the existing paint is just cleared over....I simply go over the spots that need it with the white, then clear) Then the process of clean, tape off, and prep and then I went ahead and shot it with my Expresspaint.com Aerosol cans in 904 Kilimanjaro White where needed. After that I put several coats of aerosol clear with catalyst hardener in it, called "Spray Max 2K High Gloss Finish Clear Coat Spray Paint". ( EDIT: DO NOT USE THIS!!! IT HAS ISOCYANATES IT IN, IT IS VERY POISIOUS, IF YOU BREATHE IT IT CAN KILL YOU. I will go back to the non catylist clear. It will shine just like this but must be 2000 grit sanded and buffed, which is no sweat. I breathed some of this stuff today with a dental mask on and it is BAD!!! It was enough I can feel it now...WHEW! Never Again! I went and read about it. ) Everything went pretty well, except for 3-4 spots near the gas door, where the paint didn't adhere properly and just ran. . I I started sanding it out to redo , but the sun went down, and the paint needed to harden a bit more before I could really get it ready to reshoot. I will give this paint 1.5 to 2 weeks, like I do on the rest to get hard before I even THINK of color sanding it with 2000 grit and polish it out. Even wearing a mask, it is tough on you. I really need to get out of there and quit breathing it. It's terribly bad for me. Here are some pics:

Thanks, Chuck. Going to paint semi-gloss black. Then I will have to paint inside the "z" with white.

Thanks a lot, Ken.

Ready to paint! I am thinking about trying the dark grey I used on the tailight light surrounds.....or white.....opinions? Imagine these on my tail in white and chrome on a white spoiler......