Farmer Joe

okay, back at it again.. got the wiring for the truck and the engine layed out and mostly figured out. used an american autowire power plus 13 harness on the chassis side. pretty affordable and it installed pretty easy. the microsquirt wiring is also mostly put in place. need to wire it into the individual connectors and the fuse panel. the high amp stuff is done too. waiting on a circuit breaker and a battery mount but thats about it.

well shoot, datsun isnt makin it this year. made a good push, but ive got quite a bit more to do on it. in any case, ill still be headin up with the hardbody to hang out. might take the loop around mt hood on the way over. see ya in a few days..

yeah, truck block, car intake and front drive. the perfect combo.

spent a few hours on it today. got the engine back in, put all the steering stuff back in, new front shocks, starter is in, got all the lines installed and trimmed and flared. still gotta do the clutch, but i need to play around with the hose to the slave. even cleaned out the cab. gonna try and get the fuel system knocked out tomorrow and maybe start laying the wiring and mounting the fuse boxes and the megasquirt.

back at it again. brake lines and fuel lines are done and mounted. motor mounts are welded out and the gearbox crossmember and tabs are done.

did a limited slip swap in the hardbody this weekend. the diff swap went well, but when i put the axles back in, i cant get them to set preload like before. like the axles are too short and not meeting the thrust block in the center. this is the parts im using: 92 truck h233b housing thats from the truck. 94 pathfinder h233b limited slip center section. ive tried two sets of axles as well. the original open diff axles from the truck and another set from a drum brake pathfinder axles with an open diff. my thoughts are that i might need to use the disk brake axles that were in the axle assembly i took the center section from. the drawings show the thrust block looking different between an open and LSD center. anyone got any ideas? mike? mike?

yeah, a little bit. thats cool youre watchin the episodes. its been pretty fun havin the film guys around again.. but yeah, the truck is movin along pretty good. im still tryin to get it out to powerland this year, even if it aint done done.. we'll see how it goes tho. the exhaust is gonna be a little bit of a chore since im building a header for it..

got a little more done today. motor mount parts got cut out, cleaned up and tacked in. also got the bump on the chassis for the steering box cut off, shortened and tacked back on to have that third pickup point for the gear.

okay, have the welder at the house now. got the gearbox crossmember figured out and tacked in to the chassis. got a little bit goin on the motor mounts, but its getting late and its a school night..

put some hours in on it today. engine and trans together and setting back in the chassis again. time to get some engine and transmission mounts done. i need a piece of three inch tubing to add to that crossmember in the last picture so the exhaust can run thru.. still getting that worked out..

acquired the engine ill be using in the truck today.. another single cam KA, but from a hardbody. its got a head from a 240sx and a tri flow cam i got from HRH years ago from his single cam build. has the car serpentine belt setup with the right power steering pump too. all in all, pretty good day. gotta get this hooked up to the trans and set in the truck to get some motor mounts and a trans crossmember built..

alright, we're back again with another installment of lets build a datsun in month and a half. ive got all the brake lines done minus the run to the rear axle. ran out of material, but the new roll showed up this morning.

im gonna bring the datsun this year.. is that okay?

need to build out a couple new mounting provisions for the d21 box. it locates with at least one of the existing 720 frame holes, so thats good. ill have to knock a couple new holes in the chassis and sleeve em. no big deal. and then with the truck KA itll be pretty easy to get pump, brackets and lines. power steering 620.

got a couple things done today. new steering column and parts to the d21 steering box.