New World Datsuns...

after the 2 back bolts for the mount fell out, all the load was on the front 2.

i did make the drive side motor mount pretty much a solid mount. i locked the isolator with an old socket. engine doesnt move around at all now..

i dont blame it for giving up.. its all good now.. put a nice hot weld on it and have 4 bolts in it again...

got bored after i fixed the motor mount..

this is my fake go pro. im not worried if its gets broke or whatnot.. has a neat case and has a neat mount...

i put it on the wiper arm... throttle cable action?

update

another battery is toast. will get another one here soon..

have the truck in the garage finally. jayden, wide and fernando helped out a bunch!

have the bed off too.











gonna get the link setup started here in the next few days.

scored a few parts from the junkyard too.

got a set of rockers, a KA electronic coil, square port manifold from jayden, head pipe for that manifold and a mangaflow muffler..









more to come...

Parts, woot!!!!

Who was that fuckin crackhead who left a Ratsun card on my truck??


Good fajitas man!!!

Was fun hangin out!

So my wife ordered a timing set for the KA that comes with a water pump and an oil pump.. Yaaay!

Farmer Joe wrote:So my wife ordered a timing set for the KA that comes with a water pump and an oil pump.. Yaaay!

Thats aesome

Farmer Joe wrote:So my wife ordered a timing set for the KA that comes with a water pump and an oil pump.. Yaaay!

deff a keeper

right? lol

timing kits gonna be here tomorrow if the weather doesnt fuck shit up...

gotta call the metal shop and see hoe much that beefy square tubing will cost, and some 1/4in plate...

more to come..

parts are here!







its cheap no name stuff, but fuck it... better than the parts i have..

Woot!!!

started tearing more of the truck apart..

got the timing kit installed at this point. i still have to get the cover back on and whatnot.

got the cam and rockers from the other car on it too.

removed the brake master and booster too for the brake swap.

pics..















gonna get it buttoned up tonight hopefully..

Sweet Neil.

this is what i wrapped up with last night...

engine is all sealed up again, turns over just right..

i have not figured out how the timing marks on the KA work too, so now i can actually tune it correctly.



i tore the brake system apart too.. i need to order a master cylinder so i can figure out the brake lines.



i need to get rid of the LSV under the truck, and get some unions and patch tubing. ill prolly end up having to get standard to metric brake line adapters.

soo much more to do. but the engine stuff is pretty much done, so i got that going for me... lol

so ive kinda gotten stuck on the truck this week..

the bolt for the lower control arm is corroded in the bushing really bad.. i cant even turn the bolt with a pair of vice grips on it.

i sprayed some penetrating oil on it and its been sitting since last sunday.

so im gonna try and get the cut off wheel in there to cut the bolt so i can drop the arm..

more to come here soon...

Had that happen last week on Pathfinder trailing arm bushings. Tried everything to get them out. Ended up just cutting both ends of the bolts off with a cutoff wheel.

have you tried some propane heat. It works great on them rusty bolts.

im gonna get some heat on it the next time i try it..

not looking forward to prolly having to put a new bushing in it.

got some updates.

hung the HB lower and the spindle on the truck..

looks right at home.



its only hangin by the upper tho.. the lower has the bolt runnin through it to the frame. just mock up.





went to the junkyard to hunt down a master cylinder for the brake swap.

came down to the ford explorer unit that fit the bill.

its the same as this one here: http://www.autozone.com/autozone/parts/ ... 91%2C21896

has a 1.06 in bore, metric ports, prop valve built in and its for disk/drums. i think it will work pretty well. time will tell, i guess...

so thats whats going on for now..

i still need to get the pass. lower control arm out, and see if i can salvage the bushing.

oh, i did start on one upper control arm yesterday too. found a guy on DMT that built a set of arms using half 620 king pin arms and the end of a balljoint arm.

ive started the same thing, but im finding it might be easier to just cut some plates with the balljoint pattern and skip using stock end of an upper.

more to come!

little bit of productivity tonight..

got some lights in the garage now!



and jason had a good idea to fiddle with the stock booster parts to mount the new master cylinder.

the stock booster mount has enough meat on it to bolt the ford master cylinder to. ill cut out a plate that will fit between the master and the booster mount. should cover the part of the hole the master cylinder doesnt cover, and will keep the master real solid on the booster pedestal. keepin it simple.

pics...







now i can start to figure out the plunger rod, and running the brake lines...

things are starting to look up for ol gill... lol