justin 620 Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Good choice, I'm a big fan of Cherry Bomb, always have been. Quote Link to comment
Llittle_Llama Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 What's with the duct tape on the orange pass side door? Quote Link to comment
justin 620 Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 What's with the duct tape on the orange pass side door? In the first pic? That's the end of tie down strap hanging off the mirror. I thought it was tape at first too:blink: Quote Link to comment
justin 620 Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Ooops, nevermind, I found the right picture. Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted January 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 one of my friends gave the old door some duck tape stripes for some reason, im still not sure why Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted January 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 well the old L-16 has been leaking lots of oil and water and the carb started to crap out so i finally did a compression test to see if it was worth fixing it had 180,150,80,180 and the one with 80 went up to 120 with a bit of oil in it, so i pulled it off the road until i have time to got thru my pile of free L-16's to see if theres a good one. kinda sucks tho im driving my beater s10 blazer it really makes me miss my truck Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted August 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 Well it took several months of procrastinating and working on other projects but i finally went thru my pile of half dead L-16's and found one that should do the trick. its out of a 70's 510 wagon, it had 65-75 psi on all 4 after sitting for years so i threw a coil and carb on it ran it for 30 seconds and the compression came up to 175 on all four. It needs nome new seals and gaskets and ive got to swap on my 620 pan and mounts but hopefully it will be a good runner. heres a couple pics after i cleaned it up and painted parts Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted August 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 I also picked up a rusty but usable box for free, that with a couple patches should match this truck perfectly and heres a pic with the gf's truck Quote Link to comment
king bee66 Posted August 4, 2011 Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 do you have a link to some photos of your b10s? Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted August 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 check the "other nissan/datsun forum" theres an old post of mine with some pics and i can get more if you like Quote Link to comment
king bee66 Posted August 4, 2011 Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 that would be awesome, i love the first gen sunnys Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted August 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 little bit of progress reassembling the L16 tonight and one of the rust hole in the new box and the tailgate that was burried in the dirt near the parts donor Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted September 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2011 finally got around to tearing into the truck old L-16 out and stripped of its truck specific parts rust and the hole from the homemade cold air intake from a previous owner clean up Quote Link to comment
Peter_Pablo Posted September 22, 2011 Report Share Posted September 22, 2011 just a beautiful job man i love this truck honestly jojojo I love datsuns they rockss keep that way to get up that beauty congrats Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted September 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2011 the engine is more or less complete now and got the engine bay fixed up Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted October 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 its finally in, just gota finish hooking everything up then shes good to go Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted November 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2011 well ive been driving it for just about 2 weeks now and so far it seems to be good, the carb is worn out a bit and it needs new points but it goes from a to b heres a couple pics the only question i have is since this is an older 510 engine it has the single timing pointer and 5 notches on the crank, what does each notch represent in degrees? oh and look what still works lol Quote Link to comment
Ron1200 Posted November 4, 2011 Report Share Posted November 4, 2011 Amazing transformation from what you started with. Good Job! Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted November 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2011 thanks, anyone know about the timing marks? i can get a pic if needed. Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted January 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 well after driving the truck for a month or so the head gasket started leaking, so it sat for a month or so, I finally got around to tearing into it on Thursday. the old gasket was so rotten it looked like it was leaking coolant into #1 and 4. here are a couple pics. Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted March 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2012 officially a ratsun Quote Link to comment
izzo Posted April 5, 2012 Report Share Posted April 5, 2012 nice knob thats what she said..... Quote Link to comment
Grahem Posted June 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 first car show Quote Link to comment
Willdatsun Posted June 25, 2012 Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 OMG, thats ALMOST as rusty as mine!! Great work. Im sure many people on here have junked trucks 10 times more solid. Shame on them :) Quote Link to comment
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