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Braden

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  1. ya i guess i shouldve checked the "for sale" first. i dont know why i assumed it'd be a tough find. unsure.gif my apologies!

     

    about the hole itself, i'm not sure... i bought the whole truck from a junkyard as my first project, but i didn't know about this little detail at the time. there doesn't appear to be any damage to the crank but i bet the timing chain is fuxed up. i'm in the process of tearing it down to assess the damage. it does start which wouldn't be possible without a somewhat functional timing chain right? it did idle for a good 10 minutes (a great thing to do to a 40 year old oil-less engine, i know) when i went to check it out but of course as soon as i bought it it wouldn't start again and since getting it home (uhaulbiggrin.gif) it won't idle very well at all. due to inexperience i'm kind of afraid to do fixes of this magnitude....... i dunno. i guess we'll see.

    hey its not a big project man, trust me, it seems like oh my gosh i have to take the whole front of the engine off, well guess what? you have one of the easiest engines in the world to work on, theres not many if any hard places to reach into to get to something. we can find you a good cover for cheap. about you idling it for 10 minutes with out checking the oil, that wasnt too good, i hope you didnt hurt anything internally, btu if you did it woudl giv eyou a good excuse to do a rebuild or swap to an l20b. your inmemhis i see, so did the junkyard have any other datsun trucks? im not to far from you.

  2. so i have been trying to communicate with this guy to get a serious price out of him, i offered 25$ and 29.99 but he declined, im beginning to think this is a scam, look at his pictures they are real vague and turned sideways, im gonna flag him for removeal as i have sent him several messages and he hasnt replied. what a douchbag? anybody live in arizona i would almost pay you to go kick this guy in the nuts!

  3. wrong shoes? stuck adjuster? wheel cylinder pushed out too far? if fluid gets behind the cylinder it wont let it slide back in, its teh opposite as your shoes wear, the cylinder effectively gets wider so when you hit the pedal the pressure is there, otherwise you would have to pump them to get the cylinder out far enough to engage teh shoe

  4. bristle discs work good, but normally i use the 2 inch scothbrite roloc pads on the end of an angled die grinder, make sure you get med to fine and not the coarse grit discs, they are about a buck a peice and one should be plenty to do your front cover. turn your reg down so you cant get out of control!

  5. this is a goo dquestion for datzenmike! i dotn knwo about some of the 510 trannys, but both the 4 speed and 5 speed trannys i have worked on the speedo cable has a threaded ring used to keep the cable into the side of the tranny, unscrew the ring and it should pull out, maybe the 68 is different? i would assume so judging by the description you have given? mike will chime in with good advice and pictures to back itup any second now!

  6. ha ha look at this!!! i was reading reviews on datsun z cars and here is what some dubass said

    1978 Datsun Z-Series: good car.

    08/04/10by: Member id angelog98 ( Feedback Score Of 34) See all reviews by angelog98• Overall Satisfaction:

     

    great car. good looking. car is very rare and hard to find parts for it, so buying the entire is more beneficial than just buying parts from different vendors, the car was very rare in its day and still is today with only about 20 cars in the us total and the same in Europe.

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  7. talked to this guy on ebay about a red 240, he is asking nearly 20k!!! he said 18 would make him happy. im not seeing it, its a plain old 240 with a new paint job, maybe some aftermarket seats, a junk deck, and a junk kicker sub, stock engine with round tops, plug wires havent been changed in eons, its nice dont get me wrong but do you think its really worth 18k??? im thinking more like 6500$??? maybe i am crazy you west guys tell me. maybe i should offer 5000$ if he takes his 13,000$ subwoofer out of it???

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130456865433

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