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don't know how I posted twice. Sorry

Put your mind at ease with a back-up plan to tow it, just in case things get chaotic in the mean time. Make a free reservation with Uhaul for a car transport trailer as soon as you know your exit date. They will ask for a credit card number, but won't charge your card till you pick it up. Just be sure to cancel it 24 hrs ahead if you don't need it. I bought a Dat in Oregon via phone. Made a reservation a 2-3 weeks in advance while on vacation to pick up a one way trailer in Oregon and the cost was $125 bucks total, picking it up in the middle of the week. Got to my nieces in Oregon and changed my plans to leave a few days later and cancelled my reservation, said I'd would call back in a day or two...the phone rep didn't tell me the rate would go up, and that their rates are based on trailer availability and demand. When I called back they didn't have any one-way trailers within 200 miles, and if they did...cost was over $500 ! The dat had fresh oil and was't heating up & was running good and felt ok, I just didn't know much of its history other than it had sat for still for 4-5 years prior to the sale. I gambled and drove it 600 miles down the coast to thru the forest to Oakland, with my wife following in my Tundra . Oakland is a major hub for Uhaul) where I got a trailer for just over $200 to San Diego area. It burned me up they got me for another $75 due to my bad scheduling and ignorance, but they didn't nail me for $500! 3 days later while driving the Dat locally looking for parts... the clutch master cylinder left the pedal on the floor while I coasted making a left turn crossing oncoming traffic into an auto parts store. Was really great full it did, go out on one of Oregon's blind mountain turns. Had to have AAA auto club tow it home on a tilt bed wrecker, luckily within their 7 mile free zone. My point is, be safe, don't cram your schedule and add tension to an already emotional time, or needlessly gamble your life or your fav Dat toys, while you are making life changing decisions. Hang in. Time heals

Put your mind at ease with a back-up plan to tow it, just in case things get chaotic in the mean time. Make a free reservation with Uhaul for a car transport trailer as soon as you know your exit date. They will ask for a credit card number, but won't charge your card till you pick it up. Just be sure to cancel it 24 hrs ahead if you don't need it. I bought a Dat in Oregon via phone. Made a reservation a 2-3 weeks in advance while on vacation to pick up a one way trailer in Oregon and the cost was $125 bucks total, picking it up in the middle of the week. Got to my nieces in Oregon and changed my plans to leave a few days later and cancelled my reservation, said I'd would call back in a day or two...the phone rep didn't tell me the rate would go up, and that their rates are based on trailer availability and demand. When I called back they didn't have any one-way trailers within 200 miles, and if they did...cost was over $500 ! The dat had fresh oil and was't heating up & was running good and felt ok, I just didn't know much of its history other than it had sat for still for 4-5 years prior to the sale. I gambled and drove it 600 miles down the coast to thru the forest to Oakland, with my wife following in my Tundra . Oakland is a major hub for Uhaul) where I got a trailer for just over $200 to San Diego area. It burned me up they got me for another $75 due to my bad scheduling and ignorance, but they didn't nail me for $500! 3 days later while driving the Dat locally looking for parts... the clutch master cylinder left the pedal on the floor while I coasted making a left turn crossing oncoming traffic into an auto parts store. Was really great full it did, go out on one of Oregon's blind mountain turns. Had to have AAA auto club tow it home on a tilt bed wrecker, luckily within their 7 mile free zone. My point is, be safe, don't cram your schedule and add tension to an already emotional time, or needlessly gamble your life or your fav Dat toys, while you are making life changing decisions. Hang in. Time heals

Awesome thanks. I may have to build it up in layers. The only real two places the surfaces meet are the three mounting pins and around the rubber gasket.

Disregard, pics showed up, just took a long time. Thanks!

Datsunfreak, I'm interested for sure! But your pics didn't show up

I have an 80 200 SX. One of the plastic hood vents was rattling. Wanted to ensure I don't lose it driving down the road. Saw the rubber was still intact, but the two smaller pins were broken, and it was only being held in by the one plastic 10mm nut. Cleaed off the shaft but it still sheared off when I tried to remove it. I've not had any success gluing old plastic together, especially where it will tend to vibrate at high speed and every time the hood closes. I only see about one of these per year pop up on a junkyard list and they are usually pretty trashed or picked over by the time I can get to them. Anyone have any success remounting these or with good body trim adhesives, besides double sided sticky tape?

Anybody gonna be there with any 620 AC parts? Nissan or after-market?

In the Ontario, CA Pick A Part there is a 1980 S110 sedan, CA smog version. Interior is toast, but motor, trans, and driveline is there (with a one piece drive shaft) and a lot of good body parts. Phone died, no pics. Sorry

The intent I got from this thread was for us to have some satirical fun listing all the things we've seen and done ourselves to the quickly diminishing & dying herd of remaining Datsuns. Things we've done that lessens, cripples, or amputates these vehicles future possibilities for in our lifetime owners, or for future owners. Things many of us have done in caffeinated haste or drunken stupor, only to regret Down the road like a bad tatoo. We all love and understand the need for down & dirty all-American ingenuity, especially on a budget,, and we all fight to the death for each other's freedom to build and create the biggest, fastest, loudest, & Gaudyiest machine on the planet! I didn't get this thread was meant for us all to attack and defend each other's styles and intents. Although it wasn't stated out right, it appears the general intent is about educating ourselves about construction, and from each other, and about conservation, so we have vehicles and parts to play with in the future, vs killing off all the buffalo in our own excitement...if you catch my drift. As the Internet & ratsun WTB ads show, Dat vehicles & parts are in demand and are increasingly harder and harder to find. This drives vehicle and parts availability down quicky, and prices up even faster. Yet the vehicles I typically see in the junk yards are not nice orig ones that simly died, loaded with orig straight body parts, trim, & interior goody parts to provide ours Dats lush & alive. These are the hacked, the butchered, and the radically altered that these Dat owners couldn't resell because thie market for these is so much smaller. Most new project Dat fans just don't have the unlimited time, money, or shop space to invest in reincarnating vehicles from a frame-up that have gone so far down the alteration rabbit hole. So these vehicle survive just lanother 30-60 days before being scrapped. Another one gone forever. Every time we buy a donor and can't make it run again when we salvage what we want from it... Many get completely parted out, but most get scrapped. Another off to the American scrapper, then overseas to the Japanese Auschwitch metal furnaces to make Yugos or something. Man down! Let's not Make Dats like the buffalo. Insomniatic ramble complete. My apologies.

Sorry gang, every 2-3 months I've barely got the time & energy to drive 100 miles (round-trip) to the yards & search and pull the parts I'm seeking. I try to informationally take pics of other Dats while I'm there and post for others when I get home. Unfortunately I don't always identify unfamiliar models correct or take note of what's left. It just isn't time or cost effective for me to go back for parts for myself or others. Thanks to those who keep me straight and point out other desirable parts left on them. If you are looking for something specific you can PM me your email address & a pic of the model with year, and I can email you if it's there when I go. FYI: I don't go often, and usually on the spur of the moment.

Use an undiluted engine degreaser so every bare piece of engine and suspension metal turns pumpkin orange to match the Datsun body paint, and so every piece of pot metal and aluminum grows fuzzy white oxidization. Oh, and and save the $7 for a new valve cover gasket. The slick has yet to reach the diff.

More from San Diego Ecology Auto Wreckers Another 620, pretty picked over An extended 620 I've never seen before And a 280 with a complete set of ST wheels that would clean up real nice. The center caps were gone, but the lugs were all there.

San Diego, Chula Vista Ecology Auto Wreckers had quite the selection when I went this weekend. 810 Wagon with owners manual ( I always liked the spring loaded hood ornament on these!_ An orange 620 A 710 wagon

Relaxed At, Sorry, only have one tail light after all and it is damaged. PM'd details.

I unfortunately left a nice pair in the junkyard (at $35 each) and could have salvaged them, but didn't know someone who'd want them. Closest swap meet is Eagle Rock and it sounds like the event may be changing to more show cars then sellers? I have big hands and although those look real nice to me...they would be a real pain to keep clean with so many spokes.

I saw an 81 or 82 S-110 in the Sun Valley CA wrecking yard about 10 days ago that had the tailights still in it. I drove the 90 miles hoping it had elec windows, but no luck. Mine is an 80' that has the big square tail lights. The later one in the yard had the one piece rectangle style. still useable. One had a small chip on an edge, but you really had to look for it. This S110 was only made for 3 years and not many made, so I doubt you'll find an after-market source for them. "But if you do let me know. What year is yours, and does the style matter? Do you need just the lens covers, or do you need the whole tail light assembly including the bulbs and sockets?

I have a 1980 200SX drive shaft with same prob. Already bought a new carrier bearing from RA, am about to attempt pulling the companion flange with a steering wheel puller. Next I need to figure out how to block the drive shaft in the press to press out the carrier bearing. Unfortunately, while measuring I found the 3 Ujoints I already bought from Rock Auto (Neapco 10029 without any parts specs) listed are too big and appear to be for the next SX generation. RA lists 5-6 different ujoints. Researching online I've rulled all of them as incorrect for a 1980 with the exception of two GMB parts. These I can't rule as right or wrong because I can't find specs online and MFGR won't return my email inquiries. The local driveline guy simply wants to build another one for $400+. That's what I get for living in CA and too close to the beach, Ebay prices for local services. It sucks. Rockford Drive Lines sells them (part # 430-10,) but instead of Rock Auto prices $3-10, they are $36 each + shipping for a total of $122 or so. There is onle other part number I've found that cross references with a 0.867 cap dia (both directions) and a 1.4 distance between snap rings (aka Lock-up yoke distance.) That is a Neapco ujoint # 1-0430. It may be discontinued as I cant' find anybody who stocks that part. DZ, are you saying you think the ujoint may be the same size and a good replacement for orig shaft, or are you saying whole 720 drive shaft might be a good replacement if the carrier bearing bolts up the same? I'd really prefer a serviceable driveshaft with easy to access parts. The orig ujoint for an 80 SX is anything but common. Later years are, possibly earlier, but not mine! Just my luck.

It's been many years since I worked at the Datsun dealership in the 70's and unfortunately I don't have the time to compare them to find out... I thought all the 620 wires color were coded the same for all the common componenets though out the years (ignition, lights, wipers, dash , etc), except for the newer or optional components? (like AC, later model smog stuff. and so on.) My thinking was the 79 manual would have it all. Sorry if it aint so.

Disregard email request. I just found the online source I downloaded it from. http://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/automotive/datsun_620/Datsun_Pick-up_Service_Manual_1978.pdf

I've got the 978 Nissan FSM. Email address?

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Colourbox, Who did your ipod conversion on your radio? Do you remember what it cost?

Had no luck finding it. If anywone sees it give me a holler! :confused:

All the aftermarket antennas I've found are electronic and can only be all up or down, nothing in between. I have a couple parts donors, and one that the plastice cord is intact and might be rebuildable now that it is cleaned out. Has anyone had any success removing the metal masts off the main housings without damaging them? I"ve removed the screws from a later model, but still can't remove it.