dat521gatherer

that clock is worth more than the truck. your the only ratsun member out of 7700 that currently has one. oh yeah. welcome and nice truck.

DAMN IT!!!

:blink: :blink: WOW!!

push snugly and evenly or tink tink there goes the plastic clips.

Nice truck. Cool canopy. Small secret for all you 521 owners. When you see a original battery hold down most likely the truck has been taken care more than most 521's as the hold down is very seldom seen. :cool:

Sweet, now I just need to scrape up a couple friends to drive my other 2 trucks. :)

Nice truck Wayne. I spy A pic of it with original paint behind the 720. C'mon now you know the rules, engine bay pic or ban. :P I too have a w53 but on my l16. 2 of the valve seats are sinking bad like the Titanic. Have you had any trouble with the valve seats on your w53's.

Mine is stuck too after sitting for a couple months. I bought a new slave and just need to find time to put it in. Good luck.

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welcome. Nice truck. I think I might have seen it before. Did you buy it in Tacoma?

very nice. more pics please. congrats and welcome.

is plum more of a lavender or magenta? wait plum is straight purple right? PLUM DUMB

purple haze purple people eater

if the numbers are too faded I can tell you its color number 558.

nice job. what color. ford blue?

That red 620 is phuqing sick. GO Steroid!!

I think they were imported without the beds attached with that chicken tax thing and that might be where the book weight comes in being without the bed. So I'm probably wrong along with the book.

Awesome mike!! There's nothing like the information exchange. More of this type of thing should be done. 100 years from now when nobody knows how to work on our cars, stuff like this will be some great reference and not information/knowledge that has been lost like in previous decades. It already is a great reference. :cool: I went to the puyallop fair early bird auto swap/antique show and got to over hear a lot of old dudes spouting off the inner knowledge they had and I always wonder how many mechanical secrets they will take to there grave to be lost forever.

Yeah i've been to the dump and the scrapper and the book is pretty close.

So I cleaned up my oil gauge recently after spending a couple hours looking for a correct replacement socket with bulb. Its a older stewart warner and I'm not even sure it's a oil gauge but it looks like one. I got both the socket w/bulb and new chrome bezel for dirt cheap on ebay. It was the only correct socket on ebay but I think you can still get them from stewart warner. I also took some black testers model paint and brushed over the chips on the outside ring. before after

most have a male/spade connector for a ground as seen on the left by the vacuum advance here is my set up. i recently went through and replaced all my female connectors cause i had a bad miss from carbon tracking do to unshielded connectors. fixed the miss right away.

owners manual says 2127 lbs 965 kg with a L16

me too.

I like the ribbed valve cover. 68 only right?

cool another 521. I know a guy that has one with the same color as yours. 521's rule!!