My little green 521

[Hooligan]

Gonna shift gears and start a build thread since I have quite a bit of work to do on this thing.

 

First things first.... started with a 521 bought from the original owner for $50.00. Not pretty.... but can't beat the price. Had to scrub her down the first day she made it home

 

 

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[Hooligan]

Managed to remove the canopy piece by piece..... had to bring her down a little closer to earth also

 

 

 

[Hooligan]

Just an interior shot and engine compartment shot

 

 

[Hooligan]

If the mail works in my favor tomorrow. I will have all new brakes front and rear along with a Weber 32/36 kit when I get home from work

[dirty-mik3]

NICE TAIL LIGHT LENS'S! they dont even look cracked!

 

but anyways, nice start man! and welcome to ratsun, even though you have 29 post's... try scrubbing down your engine bay! makes it seem soooo much cleaner.

[Tristin]

Glad to see you start a build thread. Am I allowed to call dibs when you want to sell?

 

 

Ill be following this for sure. 

[Radim]

I'm jealous of 521 battery hold downs.... My 620 has literally chewed up 3 batteries spewing acid everywhere....

Anyways, awesome truck!

[flatcat19]

Beings you are from the NW, wire wheel them floors and get some sort of sealant on them.

 

 

Your truck looks perfect!

:thumbup:

[laotsu]

I want the canopy.

what did you do with the old mirrors?

is that a locking glove box?

There's a bamboo colored floor mat at my Local PnP. PM me if'n you want me to get it for you.

[Hooligan]

Thanks alot guys.... yeah tail lights are in excellent shape. Glove box is non locking, mirrors are sold, and yes to the floor mat (you already know this though)

[dirty-mik3]

are you completely bottomed out on the bump stops in the front? i don't remember mine going that low until i started hacking.

[Hooligan]

Bump stops are trimmed to about 1.5" now 

[mrbigtanker]

I got a pretty nice original mat for the floor.do you have door panels for it..Nice truck.

[Hooligan]

I've got a floor mat coming so far. The door panels that were on the truck were destroyed

[Hooligan]

Not a whole lot of progress.... cleaned the valve cover, dropped on the weber 32/36, cleaned and primed around the master cylinder then dropped in a new brake and clutch master. Also managed to whip out a battery hold down and do some wire removal.

 

[wayno]

Not a whole lot of progress.... cleaned the valve cover, dropped on the weber 32/36, cleaned and primed around the master cylinder then dropped in a new brake and clutch master. Also managed to whip out a battery hold down and do some wire removal.

 

 

You need to check the battery hold down all the time, I am always uncertain of metal hold downs that are made of one piece of metal like yours, you see if that battery shifts somehow, like in a wreck or something, and both them posts or the positive post touches that piece of metal, you will likely have a fire.

Your battery doesn't have raised caps, so there is nothing to keep the metal away from the posts, and when you put the cables on, it will even be closer to the posts.

If it had a metal ring all the way around the battery, and you welded the main cross piece to that ring, then it could not move, like the stock hold downs.

[Tristin]

I second this what Wayno said. Shorting the posts can go very wrong... Id either buy some post caps, plasti-dip the tie down bar, or both. 

[DanielC]

This is a picture of a repaired stock hold down.

 

I have seen stock battery hold downs with a capped corner.

 

And with an interlocked corner.

 

I had to replace one side of the battery hold down.  Just cut a piece of 18 ga sheet steel with a 1/32 cutodff wheel, using a heavier piece of steel as a guide,

 

I then bent it using two pieces of steel clamped in a vice,

 

and then welded it into the old battery tray.

 

[Hooligan]

I'll have to give it some more thought. Right now the battery hold down is bare and that is why there is no cables attached. I had plans on coating the bar to keep it protrcted from just this, Thanks for the heads up though

[Hooligan]

Did some trading last night and ended up with a set of these

 

[bananahamuck]

On the hold down maybe cover it with that old plasit-dip stuff in the can ,, like the kind you use for plier grips that you dip part in,, not the spray on..  On another note i saw the real you,, lol,,  and noticed your an older grizzled sob like us, and not a kid that i thought you were at first.

 

 

  hope ya make a meet this summer with your Datsun.  ,,, i'm thinking you surely can get it to wobble over to the meet/bbq  in Puyallup on the 31st ,, hell it may take you 5 hours but you could probably drive all back roads there and back except for the narrows... do it ..

[Hooligan]

Yeah I wish I was younger... my back reminds me daily of how old I am yet my mind refuses to grow up. The 31st should not be a problem (fingers crossed)

[bananahamuck]

Yeah , i sure wish i would have welded all everything i ever needed to weld before my eyes went to shit.. well i guess if i could weld everything at arms length i would be good to go.. :lol:

[wayno]

Yeah I wish I was younger... my back reminds me daily of how old I am yet my mind refuses to grow up. The 31st should not be a problem (fingers crossed)

 

If your say'n your 30 years old, and you consider yourself old, you need to try on my shoes.

 

Yeah , i sure wish i would have welded all everything i ever needed to weld before my eyes went to shit.. well i guess if i could weld everything at arms length i would be good to go.. :lol:

 

I actually learned to weld with a mig in 2010, and my attitude about it is, if it looks bad(the weld), grind it off and do it again, I have had some piss poor welds last for years, but I will admit that I over brace everything, everytime i do a modification, my vehicle weighs another 100lbs.  :rofl:

[Hooligan]

I'll be 37 this year with a back of a 70 year old. I'm lucky in that I get to weld everyday.... that and play with a iron worker is always a plus too