New World Datsuns...

ah, your is about as bad as mine...


no worries man ill pass, but thank you!





plans for the weekend are to re-install my tank, rear-end, disc brakes, and 4x4 leafs

Mmmmmm powder coat

Whosoever phone that is, it has terrible white balance. That Green just is not popping enough in that pic.

The green just doesn't photograph well

All of the following happened in this


For the record I hate being cold...


Jessi cleaned up parts while I installed


New EFI rated fuel line


Ended up finding 2 cracked rubber fuel lines so dropping the tank wasn't all for not


Filler neck and associated lines are in with new mounting hardware


Gotta drill out two more snapped mounting bolts for the tank then It can go back in


Also got the front leaf spring bushings mod done


Once the tank is in the leafs are next




And I picked up some brake in oil for the KA

I wanna come play! But alas, I am banished from Datsuns til I finish the work on the house! Actually I am going a little crazy with all the house work, and a bit tired. Soon.

You're a bunch of badasses. Too cold for my tired old bones. Me and my fat dog haven't ventured out of the house for more than 2 minutes at a time in 3 days. There's no heat in my shop so it's basically just a shelter from the wind. I worked out there Thursday night for a couple hours and had enough. You guys look like you're making great progress.

Estimated fire-up date?

The only work I did on my truck was some donuts in parking lot with 2" worth of ice in it

Laecaon wrote:I wanna come play! But alas, I am banished from Datsuns til I finish the work on the house! Actually I am going a little crazy with all the house work, and a bit tired. Soon.

Ur always welcome, but it looks like ur balls deep in house work....

DRIVEN wrote:You're a bunch of badasses. Too cold for my tired old bones. Me and my fat dog haven't ventured out of the house for more than 2 minutes at a time in 3 days. There's no heat in my shop so it's basically just a shelter from the wind. I worked out there Thursday night for a couple hours and had enough. You guys look like you're making great progress.

Estimated fire-up date?

Thanx! If I don't get my ass out there it will never get done and this is supposed to be my DD...

We did pick up a new space heater for the garage today, it was almost 10 degrees warmer, a balmy 40

izzo wrote:The only work I did on my truck was some donuts in parking lot with 2" worth of ice in it

All I got was a dusting....

DRIVEN wrote: Estimated fire-up date?

After Christmas, family time is important to me so it is what it is for now

Well I've got the gas tank and lines back in now and bolth leaf springs are in as well but I need to go get hardware to bolt the leafs together.

The bolt to hold it all together? If so, thats a fun one! I had to fix a friends once since his snapped. Used a regular bolt, rounded the head to fit in the axle hole, and assembled. At work I have just drilled the hole bigger for aftermarket springs. Its also really not fun to get the leafs to align to tighten it.

Ya aligning the holes was a pain...

And I ended up enlarging the opening on the axle just a bit to accept the bolts I'm gunna end up using

But I have no nuts that fit..... And I'm out of crush washers so it's off to ace tomorrow

and just to toss it out there cus i never could get good pics under the truck but heres what my gas tank looks like.......











and i re-installed that POS............. drives me insane

That must be the low pro version?

You would think but my truck wasn't lowered until I got it... And It was that way when I got it

What's next on the to do list Adam?

Install the axel housing, rear axel shafts, rear disc brakes, then address the cross member flip before this weekend