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add a filler piece. make the gap as little as possible. It will save you time on the grinding/sanding step

do you have the bench with no indent in it?

Also, find paint that matches the bottom part of that air filter 🙂

Disconnect the battery, protect labels of all kind and the alternator. Then a bit of Simple Green, pressure wash over the engine bay and she's gonna look almost like new.

unfortunately from what i gather the harness grommet only comes with the harness. It is also my desite to change it. The other grommets I ordered on various websites: rockauto, amazon, parts train.

For starters: google it, check how its been done on other vehicles. We can't always feed you the cookies...

oups. I thought i read it right on the first webpage. Been a while since I had headlights on my truck ?

From the diagram, on LOW: h2 and h3 are ON. When on HIGH: all lights are ON.

read up on here http://datsun1200.com/modules/mediawiki/index.php?title=620_Headlight_Wiring

add a zipper on the seam line and you'll have the perfect access port for the strut tour ?

He mentioned that it's his daughter's choice of color

or have a welder MIG some aluminum back on it an tap the threads from inside out and sand flat

open it up and see what you might need. Most often its only a paper gasket

Great skills and nice progress. I only wish I could drop my truck but our regs wont allow it. I wonder if a full custom floor would pose certains issues.

use paint stripper or a sandblast like you mentioned. Reach the corners with a Q-tip, knife tip, needle or tiny screwdriver. Plasti-dip it. If its metal then just lay it flat on a fine sand paper and that should bring out the details?