jastrunk97 Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 Updates???? Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted January 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 The plan was to pull off all the black sheet metal over Christmas and paint the cab tan, then bolt on all the tan sheet metal. I bought the paint, and finished stripping the tan truck, but then life happened and we ended up re-doing Victorias room (new paint and furniture) instead so everything's still in motion, just delayed. 1 Quote Link to comment
jastrunk97 Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 Truck>bedroomShe will come around in due time and fall in love with the truck. Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted January 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 Here is the tan truck post-strip. I still need to get the stainless window trim but I can do that when the weather warms up to give me a better chance of not destroying the seals, or the windows for that matter... Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted January 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 Too nice for the sawzall or crusher right? I think so too. And I'm not the only one, so a couple local datsun guys that nobody knows :angel: came and picked it up while I was at Church. Move over J-Lo!!! And reports say the new owner is pretty tickled to have her own Datsun truck project... Quote Link to comment
dat77sun Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 dude whos silver coupe is that? than thing is sick! Quote Link to comment
jrock4224 Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 no wonder jeff aint returning my texts....lol...nice, couple of datto legends stomping up your yard while your out..... 1 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted January 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2014 dude whos silver coupe is that? than thing is sick! That's Cooper, my 69 SSS coupe: http://community.ratsun.net/topic/44192-cooper-1969-1600sss-bluebird-coupe/ Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted January 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 Okay... the day has finally come. I drove it home from work Friday night. Saturday morning I replaced the brake master cylinder in Cooper so I can drive that again, so Saturday afternoon Victoria and I stripped her truck down to the cab so we can prep it for paint. And I'm happy to report that I found 28 cents under the carpet to compensate us for our efforts! :thumbup: 1 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted January 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 Also, we aren't out of the woods yet on the heater hoses. Is there a Nissan part number for this one? I'm afraid swapping out the heater valve has taken it's toll on the hose and coolant is seaping throught the cracks. :sweat: Quote Link to comment
Trophy24 Posted January 27, 2014 Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 Forgive my noob point of view on this. Can't you match this hose up to something on the wall at the parts store? Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted January 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 ^^ Yes, I should have something in one of my buckets that will work. Just checking because I looked earlier when replacing the heater valve and could not find the nissan part number. Quote Link to comment
jastrunk97 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Updates? Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted February 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Sorry, the sight that I use to host my photos is down for a major overhaul. I have been saving up 'till I can post photos again. Let's just say it looks a little different since the last time you saw it. :angel: Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted August 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 Time for some long overdue updates. I have all my pictures on Derek's awesome www.datsun510.com page but it has been down for months: It's now back up and running. So where was I now? Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted August 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 Oh yeah, first let me introduce Brad. Great guy with a love for his old Datsun 620 and some super nice friends trying to build him a replacement. He bought the majority of the parts off my two trucks that I wasn't using in order to build his replacement (and keep the orange one on the road) One of my favorite things about playing with these old Datsuns is meeting and helping out guys like this. Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted August 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 In early February, I finally started the paint process by tarping off half of my garage turning it into a make-shift paint booth: Nothing to do now but to get to it! 2 Quote Link to comment
Jester Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 Progress is great. Now get out there and paint. :poke: Nice to see your extras going to help another too. Must have been quite the character judging by his stickers. Quote Link to comment
q-tip Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 Good to know the parts went to a good home, the poor man paint booth is coming along pretty good, but I think I needs more duct tape Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted August 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 Before we paint we must sand! As this paint job is seen as somewhat temporary - just making the truck one color before Victoria and I do a much more complete job, I was happy to stop at removing the black primer and scuffing the original blue. I only applied bondo to a few - too easy to ignore - blemishes. Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted August 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 Man! They don't give away paint supplies do they? Just enough paint to do the cab was $129 - no primer or clear either. I have painted a few cars and trucks but it was 25 years ago and I was spraying lacquer through a high pressure siphon gun. It was so easy to get good results. I was really happy with my work back then. I wasn't sure how this would go with modern materials through an HVLP gun. But I was about to find out! Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted August 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 "Good luck" is for what you're going to do. The paint job I already did - I'll take it as "good luck next time" :thumbup: 2 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted August 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 The paint went on okay. But it either didn't flash as fast as I was used to with the lacquer or I just plain put on too much... I had some runs and sags so that was less than awesome. I didn't mind too much though, it is all learning and I'll do better next time. And it is "temporary" afterall. Part of the problem is that with these newer paints, you mix it up and have to shoot it - not like the old stuff I shot before. So I felt compelled to empty the hopper when I should have mixed less so I could put on lighter coats with a complete flash in between. Also my lighting was bad - overhead only with dark tarps on the walls. Although the paint did go on nice and smooth, no orange peel or anything, I did have some pin holes (fisheyes?) which could be from poor surface prep (remember, I just scuffed and shot - no primer) or from water in the air line. It was freezing outside when I did this and my air compressor is in my other garage so I had about 20' of line outside laying on the ground on its way into this bay to connect to my gun. I may have gotten more condensation than I should have. I will re-plumb my garage to keep everything inside before doing a real paint job, and may look at adding an air dryer as well. 1 Quote Link to comment
Rinzler17 Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 that's kool I want to learn that stuff also looks like fun.... Quote Link to comment
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