GrettaGreen

I was thinking of making it my daily commute truck for work. How hard is it to bore out the old bolts and get new ones?

What would be some good questions to ask the current owner?

Thanks doc. Anyone else have 2 cents to throw in?

Is it worth it*

1984 Nissan 720 pickup 4x4 - $750 http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/4829392024.html Isn't it a nightmare to fix if the exhaust bolts are stuck in the block?

Ended up selling her off for $500...

Hey here's a little update! haha... soooo I drove to CA from ID to visit family and on the way down hit a curb on my passenger side and messed up the passenger side front end. The upper ball joint went out and the A-arm cracked and Im pretty sure some other things are bent and contorted. As for now I have yet to take it apart. Goin to the Picknpull and the local JY to see what they got. AAAAnnnndddd because of the camber on the passenger side and the load weight in the truck at the time the Tranny started clicking. Now Ive got it down to where Im pretty damn sure its the throwout bearing and not actually anything in the Tranny that is making the noise. All I know is that when I was driving the last 650 miles from north oregon to northern california and my tranny started clicking, it progressively got worse and worse and worse. gears still shifted but the noise was unbearable. It only subsided when in 4th gear, a mechanic friend said it is because it is in direct alignment with the driveshaft. SO the question of the hour: Is it worth it to fix her up and get her goin again, or just to sell her as a parts truck and get a couple bucks more for her because im in Cali instead of north idaho? OR part her out piece by piece.... I really like this Truck named Gretta, yet I am stuck because the PO took the emissions out of her and she cannot be registered in CA. So I wonder if I should fix her up and sell her in north idaho or do a mechanix special or part her out down here in cali.

hey poopy, what did u pay to get it aligned?

Damn. Have to see what I can do, it worries me to see that cv joint so close to that torsion bar

ah i see now, well figuratively since those pics are not the same way mine are =b yea I still haven't gotten around to adjusting my torsion bars. I was noticing that my passenger side CV joint is almost coming into contact with my torsion bar and I'm pretty sure I hear it touch when I go over speed bumps too fast. Will adjusting the T-bars help this?

oh yea Skulptr, I want to lower this truck back to stock or somehow get it to be less rough on the road.. it's killin me living in the backroads of Idaho. does this rig ride with the 33's on it without the lift?

right on, thanks for the info. weird so it came with rear blocks and didn't have anything in the front to raise it up? must have looked like a dragster

thanks Mike!

I'm lookin at buyin new shocks, tryin to pick between OEM KYB http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/moreinfo.php?pk=503750 and rancho rs5000's http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/moreinfo.php?pk=1132876

yea torsion bars are tight as hell. so tight the passenger CV joint is coming into contact with them.. loosening those damn bars and getting new shocks all the way around. anyone know all the tools I'll need to do the torsion bars? right now I'm a bit tool-less since I've left my pops house (he had a shop) so I've been borrowing stuff from friends since pops lives far away now.