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Sorry Matt! Here's a few more. First up, I cut all the strength out of the lower windshield frame, and now I need to put it back. There has been a 2 inch gap between the windshield and the tahoe firewall since I put the body in place. Now its time to get some steel on that and put the strength back in the windshield frame Since i had to cut off the original cowl from the Travelall to attach everything from the video above, it now has to be reinstalled. I decided to make the cowl bolt on, so I could more easily get in here to mess with wipers when that becomes necessary. So in this video, we customize and reinstall the cowl. And with the cowl in place, I decided to move on to figuring out the front clip. The Tall fenders don't fit the Hoe inner fenders at all. There is something like a 4 inch gap between them (the Travelall is much flatter across the front than the Tahoe was). In this episode, its all about building some frames that bolt to the Tahoe and then the Travelall fenders can bolt to those to hook it all together. And just for fun, here's a short one, about some wagons I built a few years ago when my kids were much tinier than they are now. I'm struggling to edit videos and get them posted, and I'm struggling even more to get the videos posted in places where people might watch them. Thanks for being interested enough to comment!

Nice! I recently built two horse shelters for my wife using mostly pallets and railroad ties, but we built it all around the metal tube frames for tarp garages like you can get at HF or Amazon. It was a bitch of a project but we did get it done and they are really nice buildings overall.

I spent a good while looking at OM6?? (I think I was looking at 617s?, maybe 606s?) Anyway, 5 cylinder straight diesel or turbo diesel from Mercedes Benz. 80's stuff specifically. I thought they would make a pretty great lower budget diesel swap. I'm not sure you can get a 4bt swap for less than your truck is worth either. I agree that new cummins is pricey, but a 4bt swap is still going to run $4K isn't it? Still seems steep unless you are all in on your truck.

What can you do yourself? Can you weld? Can you design and build the various necessary mounts for a swap? Or are you willing to layout the cash for the necessary swap components like motor mounts? I find $5K to be pretty absurd an estimate to put in a KA, unless you are paying a shop to do it. If you are doing it yourself it can be done for much less. Buy a complete running D21 for your swap. That will be your cheapest point of entry. It can seem cheap to buy just a motor laying around, but once you add up all the ancillary crap you have to purchase, a swap donor is pretty much always a better option. There are just too many things you won't think of up front that will nickel and dime you to death. Then you will either have to deconstruct the wiring harness, or get a 240sx engine harness and intake manifold. You will need a Can-Am box (which I think can still be ordered from a member on here) to do hookup the wiring, or build your own based on wiring diagrams available here on Ratsun. If you can weld, build your own mounts. If you can't, you will have to buy some if Redeye is still selling them. So that is another cost. You can likely, though I can't guarantee, use the radiator etc from the D21 to save money. Same with the rad hoses. You will need a higher pressure fuel pump. An easy option is to go to a parts store and ask for the fuel pump from a 1988 Ford F150. These are an inline pump pushing fuel injection level pressures. Then driveshaft and exhaust. The less you can do, the more the price goes up. But either way, if this is your first real project, let me provide some further advice. GET IT RUNNING FIRST. Even if you think its a waste of money. It won't be. The ability to stay motivated on a project is increase a million times over if you have a running vehicle. Then you can gather money and source 90% of your parts while driving it around, even if only sometimes. Waste the money, make it run. Then decide your long term plans. People who ignore this advice and just dive in deep have like a 90% failure rate of ever having their vehicle on the road.

Kennedy engineering used to make one. Thats the only one I have ever seen though. I'd be interested if someone else is making one again. I have this build in my head of a Mazda rotary powered, Subaru AWD, b13 sentra front knuckled, Datsun 1200 fastback. Researching that nonsense is where I found those old kennedy engineering adapters. I called this build the MazDatSubaruDaSun

I wonder what he does with them? Just an avid collector of stamps, specifically the green ones? 😄

I plan to run VW MK1 golf/jetta kind of metal flares on my 510 when I get back to it. I don't know they really add much in the way of actually larger tire fitment, but I really like steel flares, and those fit the existing 510 lines nicely I think. I have also seen them on a bmw 2002 and they looked really good. This is in now way a suggestion that they would be useful on this build. they just look nice.

Lets get back to the lighter trend of things around here. Even being religious, this is funny.

I appreciate your perspective Mike. I disagree with much of it, and some of what you say doesn't accurately reflect what I believe or what my religion teaches, but I have no desire to attempt to broadly discuss those topics here. So I will just say a couple of simple things, and leave it at that. The price of entry is your best, not perfection. That is the point of Christ and his atonement. He can and will make up the difference. Family is still family on the other side. They still care and still watch. But as you say, they have greater understanding meaning they can witness our ups and downs from a different perspective than us. Besides, I believe they have other things to occupy them, so, much like here on Earth, they might check in, but they aren't watching our lives like a TV show. I find the statement that "life is meaningless" sad. I don't really care if my beliefs are wrong and there is no afterlife. Believing that there can be more causes me to reflect on who and what I am, and who and what I can be. It leads me to desire to improve myself and strive (and fail) for general kindness overall. It takes me away from the most basic way of living, all wrapped in up "what do I want", and causes me to consider things much greater than just my own needs. These are things I think are lacking today in society, and I will not regret choosing a belief system that combats them, even if my beliefs were proved frivolous. I don't believe in the meaningless of it all. I believe I am improved by my belief in something greater. If you want to discuss further how religion has improved my life, I'm happy to do so more privately. Feel free to PM me if you are interested.

Your videos on this beastie keep popping up in my feed. I need to stop sucking and watch them. You keep getting edged out by Halfass Kustoms. Sorry man, he's my favorite channel :D. I'm with you on the whole paint thing. I regard much patina the exact same way. It's earned. Its hilarious to listen to my 10 year old kid showing his friends my Travelall and when they comment its 'ugly' or whatever, him parroting my speech on how thats patina, and cars earn it so its awesome.

You can fit any diameter rim on there you want, you just need to be aware of the tire outer diameter. You can run rims 8 inches wide depending on offset and maybe wider if you go with a narrower tire. I've run 30's just by cranking up the torsion bars a little, and just had a bit of rubbing on hard turns. I have a 2 in lift on my 720 now and I'm running 31x10.5 on 15x8s. I could MAYBE run 32s? but it would be a rub fest on turns and hard bumps. You really can't get over 31 to fit without serious lift. There is a sheetmetal seam inside the front wheel well, where your feet sit inside the cab. That seam can be cut ever inch or two and folded over with a hammer. Thats a necessary step to run the bigger tires.

If you have access to 3d printing anywhere (some hobby shops and local libraries are offering this if nowhere else), you can print new visor locking clips. https://www.mito3d.com/en/3d-models/print-details/1535382/güneşlik-klip-nissan-datsun-720-kamyon

Cool photo bomb. That photo with the pup in the drivers seat is great, and I'm not even a dog person. Pretty sure that pic will kill my buddy though. He's a huge race nut and car guy both :D. I will check out my random front diff collection this weekend, see what I have. I'll let you know.

Hey Stoff, congrats on getting back in to the Datsun game. Did you finish that British race car you were working on? Was it an MG? I don't recall exactly. Anyway, that 4.38 diff you are looking for, was that one of the 720 front diffs? I have one or two front diff laying around, so if its a 720 option, let me know, I will go find them and figure out what I have. If I have the right thing, we can figure out getting it to you. All this is assuming you haven't found one yet of course.