tailgate lettering removal

[jastrunk97]

how do you remove the letters on a datsun tail gate? my S is smashed in and pretty much unfixable for someone at my skill level so i decided to see what it would take to just get rid of the letters altogether.

 

please help

 

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[ggzilla]

They dont' come off ...

[jastrunk97]

bummer

[Wide14u]

Mine is moved all around

[Radiant-Designer]

You can try to shave it smooth, or replace it, I believe old mazdas were simmilar with side laches and so on.

 

 

..... Or a new datsun tailgate... I have one spare just in case. It's red from a 76 parts truck I just sold. If you need it perhaps we can work something out, I'm in New England though.

[ggzilla]

You can cut out the 'S' and weld in a patch.

 

It would be cool to say 'DAT UN'

[Wide14u]

Mine says danuts

[Jayden71]

Mine is moved all around

Maybe you should post a oic of it.

 

 

 

 

 

If you remember how :P

[DanielC]

Can you get to both sides of the sheet metal where the "S" is? Try to fix it.

I have a 521 Tail gate, that is damaged. I cut the two braces out of it, between the ends, so I could reach both sides of the metal where the letters are.

I think it would be easier to repair the metal that is there, than it would be to cut the damage out, and weld in new metal, and then go back and try to fix the warping caused by welding in new metal.

 

Make a jig out of a 2 x 4 or other wood blocks to hold the tailgate. Make punches out of wood to move the metal. If you need to carve, or cut a groove out of a piece of 4 x 4 or 4 x 6 wood, do that.

 

If you have some auto body hammers, even better. Even if you do not have auto body hammers, you could use a small ball pein hammer, or even a claw hammer.

 

You do not need to buy dollies, a thick piece of steel will do. Any piece of steel over 1/2 inch thick will work as a dolly.

[Wide14u]

i think i did it

[ggzilla]

photoshop won't fix a real boo-boo

[Wide14u]

its real :D

[Jayden71]

Yaa its real.

 

I've run my fingers across it :sneaky:

[ggzilla]

nice

[Wide14u]

Your dirty :rofl:

[Guest kamakazi620]

Yaa its real.

 

I've run my fingers across it :sneaky:

Is it Shaved???? I no sees hair on "DA NUTS"

[Jayden71]

Is it Shaved???? I no sees hair on "DA NUTS"

No hair <_<

[Guest kamakazi620]

No hair <_<

GOOD!! cuz Cats LOVE hairy balls

[pharouh]

Get another tailgate,or shave the letters.

[datzenmike]

Yeah, fix. I love the Datsun name and proudly display it. Wish my 710 had a larger emblem on the back is all I can say.

 

I drove 150 miles to buy a '77 tailgate for my truck. The guy bought his 620 new and within a year fitted a camper on it and removed and stored the tailgate in his daughters attic. She found it there when she was cleaning it out for a move just over 30 years later.

 

Here it is with less than a year of use...

 

 

 

Not going with the 620 anymore, I will likely hang this on my wall.

.

[Wide14u]

i would hang that on my living room wall with lights all around it

[Datsun Parts]

I sell the vinyl decals if you decide to go back to the stock tailgate.

[ggzilla]

How about this one from the TV show about the lady detective?

 

[ZackTheImpaler]

Don't shave it off, same as mike I love displaying my datsunism. Either replace it, fix it, or fuck it drive it the way it is.

[jastrunk97]

im thinking about shaving it then getting the vinyls and putting them on