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Were there ever any 710s built for the Japanese market that had IRS? An SSS car?

Good morning. I don’t have sill plates on my car. There are plastic pieces that cover the inner rocker in the back seat. The plastic pieces that are used in the front have a “tray” between the seat and the sill but nothing on the top of the rocker. My car was complete when I bought it, so I’m assuming there never had been anything there. The lock hole on your car suggests to me that your door cards didn’t go all the way to the glass. The short card doors had a different opening (like the ones you have) for the lock than the tall card doors. I changed my tall cards to short cards when I did mine. I like the look better. Here’s the link to my thread that shows the door locks and the differences that I noticed. https://ratsun.net/topic/33242-1976-wagoon-710/page/10/ I got rid of the trim on my car as well. It just didn’t look good. Of course it required me to weld the holes that Mike talks about that were used for rivets. Hope this helps.

Good evening, Mike reached out to ask me about my car's information. I'm pretty sure sure it's a Canadian car. It has 11/76 stamped on the door tag. It's titled here as a 1976, but I imagine that it would been sold as a 1977 model. Seems like the "J" designates the "rigid rear axle". I recalled that my shop manual had this page in it. Here is the "MODEL VARIATION" page.

Haven’t done a ton with the 710 in terms of driving this summer. I had to replace to rear main and the oil pan gasket (and I didn’t make the time in the winter or spring to do it….no excuses really, just didn’t do it). Didn’t get to it until later in July after I sorted out a problem in my daily driver (1998 Chevy Tracker). Broke down on the 2nd last day before my summer holidays. Took me almost 3 weeks to track it down to a single broken wire…the 12v line to the igniter in the distributor it turned out. Anyhow, I’ve been able to drive my car for the last week and it’s been a hoot! I still have some fine tuning to do on the Webers, but I’m enjoying it in the meantime! Summers are short in Manitoba, time to make up for lost time! I hope you have all been able to enjoy some seat time in whatever car/truck makes you happy! Until next time!

I had the same problem with mine. Sometimes it worked and other times not. I wired in a relay and haven’t had a problem since.

I made a dead pedal this past week. My legs are short...so this is WAY more comfortable! After using it, it could have been taller, but it still does the trick. I will put some traction tap on it when I get the time to get to the store to get some. Thanks for looking in.

It's an EI distributor, so I am not worried about it at all. I left the ballast resistor there, but there is a wire bridging the posts to bypass the resistance (read how to do that in old DQ issues). Originally it was to keep things looking stock...clearly that doesn't matter anymore. Ha! It'll be a winter project to remove it and clean it all up. Of course there is the issue of building a LandCruiser this winter, so I might not get to it! I thought it was done correctly when I put it all back together. I kind of do things like that slowly as I am always a little nervous about messing that stuff up.

As I was starting to tune the carbs, I ran into trouble starting the car. I couldn't even get it to stumble. My first reaction was that I turned mixture screws too far, or my idle screws were wrong so I went back to baseline and started again (I am brand new to Webers). No luck. The damned thing wouldn't run. Next was to check spark...it was intermittent at best. I checked the distributor cap to see of anything was broken, and it looked clean, so, I figured I'd try a spare coil to rule the possibility. With the spare coil, it started right up! I haven't a clue why or how that would have crapped out. Perfectly terrible timing. Anyhow, I added an MSD Blaster SS (recommended by a friend). It has been good so far! I made an aluminum bracket tat used the same holes as the factory coil bracket and mounted it up! I added a catch can (bought not built) as the Webers have no provision for PCV and mounted it to the passenger side strut tower. Here is the engine bay with everything installed. The rear filter cover has about the thickness of a business card between the brake booster and the cover! I'm super glad it fits! And some random pics from out and about with my buddy. That's it for now...I'm driving it again (especially with our amazing fall temperatures this year) and enjoying the extra oomph and Weber induction noises. Until the next update...thanks for looking in.

Once the intake was cleaned up, it was time to make a heat shield. This isn't anything fancy, but I made a cardboard template and then transferred it to aluminum. It mounted nicely to the manifold and then added some insulation to the underside as well. I made a small bracket for to attach it to the underside of the carbs as well (there are 2 studs under the carb for this purpose). Progress made and I will have more updates shortly!

So, here we are in October and after spending some time driving the car this summer the front SU decided to start leaking. Nothing overly serious, but enough to set in motion an induction change. I had a set of Weber DCOE 42mm sitting on the shelf and decided it was time to give them a whirl. I obviously started with removal. The intake I had was painted red at some point. I blasted it with glass beads and it came out pretty nice! Thanks for looking in!

The air dam in on the list. I plan to try an make my own out of aluminum...I have NO idea how that will go!

Hello everyone! I've spent the winter working on a new project...1976 FJ40 that will be getting a diesel transplant, rust repair, suspension, and power steering! So, I haven't really done a lot different with the 710 through the winter. I did come up with a couple of bumpers. I like the look of the car without, but there seems to be extra "eyes" these days on modified cars in these parts (like there's nothing better to enforce out there!). I tried a couple of things for the front first was bare aluminum, second was paint matched aluminum, third was black. I didn't really want the bumpers to be conspicuous. I'm still deciding if I succeeded. Not sure I really like the rear one (though colour matching it makes it seem less visible), but I want to drive it for a whole summer, so it will stay the same for the time being. I wanted to have fog lights on the car, so the front bumper served both purposes..."light bar" and bumper. Anyhow, a few pictures for you. And a couple of pics from a night out with a friend of mine with a 510. Until next time!

Oh, how I’d love to get a factory tach.

Thanks! Now I know.