Will

I'm considering a road trip up that way since it is the first 610 or 710 that has popped up at a yard since I moved to the Bay Area. ...though I dunno. SNOW? I didn't move to California for that stuff.

Looks a little beat, but they generally do get some damage before winding up in a yard.

Any news on your 710? The old L20 got me all the way to California and is still happily spinning.

A few cheap 710 projects: Sideways 710 - Idaho - $300 http://twinfalls.craigslist.org/cto/4210360021.html Crusty Goon - West Salen, OR. $250 http://salem.craigslist.org/pts/4147374948.html

One of the 280ZX master cylinder's reservoirs was too wide to fit in a 710, so I swapped it out for another small one from a 280ZX MC. Hopefully it will fit now!

...finally got around to installing the repaired bumper - even though the people in this town gave me lots of compliments on the 4"x6" wooden version.

Keep up the good work!

To avoid two trips to the machine shop, I was thinking of using a cold chisel (and safety glasses) to crack the old bearing collar and bearing from the disc rear axles. I need to get them off so that I can do a more accurate job of re-drilling the backing plate and bracket. ...anyone have rear wheel bearing removal/replacement tips?

Yup - I added some Moog camber plates when I swapped the front suspension to get the front wheels more perpendicular to the ground - the 710 has a raised ride height compared to a 160J/Violet, so maybe Datsun didn't change the strut location when they raised the car. Odd that they would miss that, because they bothered to make the front fender lips are lower on 710 fenders than on 160J fenders.

Okay, further updates... I went back this morning and tried rotating the bracket around to see if I could find a position that would work, and it looks like this one will do the trick: It's pretty close to the bump stop, but I think it should be okay. It looks like there will be clearance for the parking brake cable too. Unfortunately, the holes don't line up for a simple bolt-on installation, so I'll need to re-drill the brackets and backing plates, but there is plenty of room on the current brackets for a new set of holes without making them weak. ...and my slide hammer is ugly, but functional!

Well, the good news is that my home-made slide hammer worked like a charm. (it was a bunch of bike tubing and random bits of scrap metal welded together, but it worked.) ...the bad news is that the weird 80-81 200SX rear calipers are a lot deeper than most calipers, and there are clearance issues between the leaf springs if they are rotated to the bottom and there are clearance issues between the calipers and the inner fender if they are rotated to the top. Does anyone know of a different caliper that might be a good fit to the 200SX bracket? The mounting holes are 3.75" / 9.5cm apart.

I finally got around to starting the 200SX rear disc brake swap (I was waiting until I picked up a resident parking sticker, so I wouldn't have so far to walk when I need to pick up parts from home.) A rear wheel cylinder had been leaking for a while... it sure was a mess under the drum! It was supported by a jack stand too - it just doesn't show in the photo! Unlike the 200SX, the rear axle didn't just pull out nicely when the axle flange was unbolted, so it looks like I will need to go to the metal shop tomorrow morning to make a slide hammer that I can attach to the hub.

Yeah... it seems like a lot of the '73s wind up with really denty front ends after 40 years - I guess this one has been helped out by being kept out of circulation for 22 years. I'm curious to see what it will look like after the paint gets a bit of attention.

Best wishes for the rest of the cross-country trip!

If someone happens to be heading towards that San Bermardino yard and wants to earn some cash for wrenching a few parts off of that 710 and sending them up to San Francisco, let me know!

It comes pre-named: ALF

Oh wait - I just noticed that the new fellow with the white car a few posts back has two tachs... maybe he'd be interested in selling / trading after he swaps in the round SSS gauge cluster?

Yeah... I figured that the price + shipping is about what someone would try to charge for just the tach stateside. I haven't seen a 610 tach for sale for AGES. Plus you could sell the other stuff to make up some of the cost. Too bad it isn't blue. I love those weird blue gauges.

Datsun 610 gauge cluster with tach in Australia, and the seller is willing to ship to the USA. ...the speedometer is even English-Standard. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Datsun-Nissan-180B-SSS-Dash-Instrument-Cluster-/261259627654

Okay, more midwest than East Coast. ...and not a Datsun, but I figured someone here would be interested anyway: Toyota Crown Hardtop, $800 http://springfield.craigslist.org/cto/3968645555.html

I picked up some 200SX rear brakes from an '80 200SX with a H-165 rear axle at the junkyard - I'll post some more pictures when I do the install...

I stopped by Moss Landing P-N-P to grab the rear disc brakes off of a '80 200SX, and it seemed pretty much untouched...except now the rear axle is removed. It has an automatic transmission and a blue interior. It was cheaper to remove the whole rear axle than to get charged for the brakes individually, but that seems like the only part that has been removed from the car. There was also a green/green '78 510 hatchback. Automatic transmission, matching interior. Again. If you're looking for green interior parts it might be a good source - it look like it has been disassembled quite a bit, but not much is actually gone - rear bumper, head, some trim is all that is really missing. I saw the grille and gauge cluster tossed a few cars away, so I put them back in the car - and the dizzy (electronic ignition with remote box) is under the car near the back. Also there was this 521 that looks like it was a lot of fun back in the day: I nabbed a cannon intake that made it seem like there was some stop-leak running through the system at some point (grey goop), but the engine looked quite clean in general.

It looked pretty complete - they put out a row as I was there yesterday around noon. I looked under the turbo's hood and there was so much stuff that I'm not used to seeing on my L20B. That turbo sure has lots of stuff.

Ker-blam!