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Red truck is 100% bagged in the back laying frame. All the welds got finished up today. Also cut out the bed and got the bed on. Spray painted all the shiny metal and welds.

Awesome build. Really coming together nicely. How did you like the airtank gas tank? Did it work ok?

Progress is progress. Atleast you are doing it slow and correct. This datsun will outlive you. Cant wait to see paint in this enginebay.

Nice. Hope to see some progress looking good. Loving my 79 kc.

Black truck has new aluminum radiator all in and full of new 50/50 mix. Also painted grill gloss black and test fitted a air dam off of who knows what. It is a perfect fit. Going to get some hardware and mount it. Also painted grill black. Im going to paint the black truck up with a mouth on it like a fighter plane and continue doing little crap like this too it. Itll be the artsy fun build.

Also installed a new aluminum race style radiator in black truck, needs starter, and rear brake cylinder

Following Looks like a fun wierd project

Good progress so far. Like the paint job on the engine.

BIG UPDATE Red truck is running with a good l20b. Now its at rorys, getting bagged. Hes on here dont remember his screen name. He has a bagged bodied and boosted 620 with a ca18. Its already nearly half way done. I got a york compressor for it with stock 521 ac bracket, 3 gallon tank (for now), 3 paddle valves (for now). Its notched now big enough to lay on 18's. 2 linked, with traction bar. Bag on bar. Back is nearly finished. Should be all bagged over the next couple weeks. Ill keep you updated.

Oh I should also include, that if you put a battery in it that is a healthy fully charged one, it kills it in a day just sitting, so dead that the heater blower won't even come on or running lights.

Don't mind bungie it was just holding battery down for temporary drive around Block.

Anyone know where this wire is supposed to go? It's running like this, is that wire important?

Not sure what year this truck is because it's hobbled together with a later model cab, and who knows what year l20b etc. It says it's A 73, but cab and wiring seems 76ish.. Anyways it has high output pathfinder alt, brand new starter, and it runs good when it starts.. If I put a fresh charged battery in it, or a battery that's successfully starting the other 620 no problems, it turns over OK and starts but it doesn't have a lot of umph as it turns the engine over. Seems to have a "draw" somewhere. After it turns truck over a bit and fires, if I turn truck back off and try to turn it over again it will really go slow, barely can even get it to turn over at all. If I try a third time or fourth, it won't even turn over at all. So basically a battery with 90% charge or better that's freshly topped off, or out of a running vehicle will get it to turn it over and start but it's weak, a battery with 70%-80% that would turn over any other vehicle at my house just fine, won't get it to turn at all. This is the second starter we've tried, new one helped a tiny bit, but not really, tried an extra known working ignition, didn't help. It was grounded from battery to firewall, grounded back to stock spot on engine, helped a little bit. I'll post some pics of under hood. But any ideas on what to check next?

So today I adjusted clutch pedal and now it works fine. Engages about half pedal. Now I'm gonna have to post a thread regarding wiring problems haha. Baby steps... Thanks for helping me try to figure it out..

Yeah we re bled the system with a brand new slave cylinder after everything was put back together. The slave cylinder moves a lot, and so does the fork

And john510 it shifts smooth and normal when truck is off

Mike, if you start it in gear it lurches forward like it should. Except it Doesn't matter if clutch is pressed in or not...4doorkid, that's a good idea for a temporary fix.

It didn't feel like load from the clutch was what was getting it stuck in gear, it felt like broken internals in the tranny. You'd be driving in second, come to a stop, press and hold clutch down. Truck would idle fine and roll backwards if there was a hill or incline of any kind and you couldn't get it out of gear without really applying force to the shifter, a lot of force. But if you came up to the stop in 3rd or 4th, it would come right outta gear no problem. For all intensive purposes, if we had just drove the truck in 3rd and 4th and reverse the tranny was operating perfect.

Now when you press the clutch in it doesn't feel like the pressure plate ever even makes contact with the throwout bearing.

No it was easy to shift. And it only stuck in gear sometimes. If I remember right only 2nd gear. It shifted as it should.

We pulled the tranny at the junk yard, and it sat for about a week or two before we installed it in our truck. We pulled our old tranny and installed this one all in the same day. So no sitting. We sat the 2 trannys next to each other, then swapped the complete throwout bearing assembly from our old tranny to the new one (bearing, collar, and fork). Never separated bearing from collar or anything. The problem with old tranny was that one of the tabs that holds shifter in with the shifter bolt was busted off, someone tried driving it like that for a while and messed up synchros, as well as it would get stuck in gear and wouldn't come out. We drove it a while with a bolt snugged into the other tab with a bolt on each side so the shifter had something to get leverage on. It drove. and clutch did its thing correctly, it was just super frustrating when it got stuck in a gear. Slave appears to have full range of motion. Havent measured, just eye balled.