I came to this site when I read a post by Ben (83_maxima) in Hybridz.org. I was looking for ld28 that I can swap into a 240Z after some surfing on the “veggie car” and thought: “That sounds easy! I can do it and be the coolest dad in the neighborhood!”
I sent Al (asavage) a private email on where to look for a LD28 that I can transplant into a 240Z. He directed me to several past posts in “Peddle or Procure it” (Thanks, Al). So I contacted a local seller and bought these 2 and 1/2 83 Maxima's last November. My plan is to take the best running ld28 and sell or part the rest. The preferred scenario is to put the ld28 from the “1/2 83” in the 240Z and re-sell the two complete 83.Fast forward to last night, I finally got some time work on the sedan. Its symptom when I tried to test drive the cars matched one of the common problems. But the problem I had was a different wire bundle in the same vicinity. As soon as I connect the batter cables to the battery, the wire bundle that’s right next to the positive starter cable started to smoke.
Most of the casings in that bundle were melted together and shorted the wires. It was interesting to me that it didn’t short a fuse first; although the seller did say that one of the fuses would short after a long drive. After about an hour of splicing and soldering, I was able to remove the trouble maker.
Click here to see the progress of my 83 sedan
Thanks in advance for the many forth coming requests for help.
what did I do wrong?
