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  1. That’s why I chose Seeker for my name. Finding parts is kinda like fishing, some days you don’t find any, some days you find the big one, or a rare one. . Talking to people about the parts you need is like throwing out bait to draw in sellers with the parts you need. You’re great at it. I’ve seen you “land fish” from all over the country ;) Nice catch,
  2. https://sacramento.craigslist.org/search/sss?nearbyArea=1&nearbyArea=373&nearbyArea=456&nearbyArea=92&nearbyArea=96&nearbyArea=97&query=1980%20Datsun%20200sx&searchNearby=2&sort=date
  3. If I knew what you meant, I could read women's minds. If I could do that I.... Wow would life be easier ;)
  4. 7119531151051120 expires on December 17, 2017
  5. If you're talking about the side molding, screws won't work. Screw heads are too big/tall to allow the molding to slide into the channel. It will hang up on the first one. You'll need to use Pop rivets. You might be able to drill and tap the channel and use screws from inside the fender. But you'll have to cut down the screws length so the won't protrude into the channel path and push the vinyl trim out of the channel. And I'd use locktite on the screws so they don't vibrate out. But that's a lot of drilling, tapping, and cutting screws. Aluminum pop rivets and a manual pop rivet gun from Home Depot would be cheap, much faster, and wouldn't rust.
  6. If it's factory molding it might have pins that go thru the fencer and plastic collars that slide on the pins on the inside of the fender, kinda like 620 fender emblems. You might have to scraps off some inner fender mud or undercoating to see if something is on the inside of the fender. Or it could just be mounted with Nissan HD double sided sticky tape like my 200SX emblems. Time will tell.
  7. And on later year vehicles like 79 and later.
  8. Color, If stanleys's molding Matches the stuff on the blue wagon Datsun Freak is 100% correct. It is a universal after-market product installed by the dealer nice the car arrived at the dealer to be sold. The "new car prep" department ( I worked in this Dept at Economic Motors in Riveerside in the early 70's.) would install different types of after market products like mag /jackman type wheels, side molding ( like Stanley's) aftermarket A/C units, side mirrors, custom door mirrors, and decal packages (some decals were factory, others aftermarket. The side molding was a popular purchase as Dats have beer-can-thin door metal and are easily dinged by American doors back then, and by new Asian cars today. Datsun were very affordable cars and Datsun dealers who previous other US model cars wanted to increase the selling prices of Datsuns as much as possible, to get them closer to the prices of US cars they had been prev selling. There was big mark-up prices on accessories, and quick & easy profit. The black plastic trim slides into a grooved track on the chrome base. At any junkyard you can Pick out one end of the black plastic and twist on it while pulling on it and you'll see how it comes out, and re-installs. Spray it with some dry silicone to help loosen it up. Then you'll see the pop-rivets that hold the chrome track onto the fender. Use the smallest drill bit you can to drill out the center of the rivet shaft. It will be way smaller than the mushroomed over head of the rivet. Then you will have to re-drill the new fender to match. I suggest you do so after the new fender is installed sou can get the alignment of the molding on the new fender to match the door. Painters tape or a "chalk line" tool can help, or your husband lying on his back holding it in place while you eye-ball it and mark the holes to be drilled. "Holler" if you've got ?'s "homie."
  9. Dou you or a friend have a service manual or parts manual that shows how it is attached?
  10. By my calendar the third Sunday in October is the 15th. No?
  11. https://i.imgur.com/XHcp7tj.jpg I couldn't understand why you were grumping so about the the fender antennae .... a pic really does say a thousand words. I get it now.
  12. PM Tdaaj. He finds nice wholes ones in WA that aren't brittle.
  13. Did you have time for a photo-op of your Dat in front of the mansion? Pet any bunnies? :)
  14. I 2nd that. The articles had great pointers.
  15. It must have been a new addition to the holding yard as ir was nice & clean. All the other cars in the rows had dust caked on them so thick you couldn't tell what color they were. This was from the giant skip-loaders zooming back and forth kicking up dust from the dirt road next to them. From 720_Jeff's experience it sounds like it will have all the nice ST Stuff. Keep an eye out for it to hit the yard sowner or later.
  16. There's an 82 280zx (auto) that landed in the Chula Vista (San Diego) PaP on Sept 10th. The center caps I wanted were gone, but most of it was still there including the motor, ft struts, dif, and 3 of the ST wheels. I'm tall enough I could peek over the fence into their holding area. There's a very straight white 720 Standard cab short bed with what looks to be a full set of ST wheels and caps, but I couldn't see the 4th ft wheel. It had black mirrors so I'm not certain if it was a real ST model or not. Did all the ST trucks have chrome mirrors? Too far to tell.
  17. F.Y.I. Good news: It is 40% off sale this long holiday weekend!
  18. F.Y.I. Bad news: That 240 has been there for a month
  19. "How to turn your fan into an Air Conditioner" is a very interesting concept, as it works similar to an AC Unit. But instead of a constantly recharging AC unit cold source, it utilizes icy cold water from the cooler. The Ghetto Breeze 600 concept forces hot vehicle air into the cooler box of ice, at high speed. The idea is for the air to cool off and come out cold from the scupper fittings. The problem is the big fan air is moving too fast entering the box. This doesn't give the air enough contact time with the ice to cool off before exiting the box. The slower the air movement... the more contact time it has to cool off more before exiting. This is the same condition on a vehicle freon AC unit. If you take a thermometer and take the temperature of the air coming right out of a vent at high speed, it will be warmer than the air coming out of the same vent at a slower fan speed. If the GB fan speed could be slowed down or put on a resistor from a heater unit to do so, the exiting air would be cooler upon contact to occupants. But it the GB600 may never catch up cooling off the whole interior of the vehicle depending on the amount of cabin space, vehicle insulation, and the length of your drive (ie: 15 min vs. an hour.) The "How to turn your fan into an Air Conditioner" has actual icy cold water in the tubes in front of and in close proximity to the fan. This is similar to a cold, constantly recharging, AC evaporator unit inside the car with the squirrel cage forcing the cold air out the ducts to blow on the occupants and eventually cooling off the interior of car. Using the same capacity of icy water ice used in the GB 600, and depending on the fan speed, I would think the fan blowing from behind the icy copper tubes would blow colder air to the occupants that the Ghetto Breeze 600. In concept I'd think you could run a fan for driver and another on occupant from the same cooler. It would be a great experiment to compare both units in the same vehicle to see which is more effective. But I'm not confident enough to bet pink slips on either! I'd lean toward the fan for effectiveness, but if I were voting on popularity... I am a bigger fan of the inventor of the GB 600 B)
  20. Free 620 parts in Classified ads! See the list there. Will bring to this event if you PM me what you want and buy me a burger.
  21. Free 620 parts in Classifieds. see the list there. Will bring to this event this Sun if you PM me what to bring just buy me a cup of coffee and a donut!
  22. Currently for you and Colour, AC = Almost Cool. I like both your attitudes and patience on a new & unfamiliar project. Keep the faith! We'll get it to = AIr Conditioning for you too. After Colour's picking trek, I suggest lots of alcohol afterward for your support team members ;)
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