sleven36 Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Hello everyone, I'll try to make this introduction short cause long posts suck. Anyway, my name is Jordan im from central CA, bakersfield, to be exact. I have been lurking on this site for a long time, figured its about time I post my project as I have a lot of questions that the search button just cant help me with. First off the car is a 1969 510 wagon. The car was originally bought by my best friend, Johan(french name, hence the build title) about 7 or 8 years ago, He picked it up and we slowly worked on it for a while. Well almost two years ago Johan passed away, RIP buddy. His parents were nice enough to sign the car over to me so I could keep the project going. Im a full time student so it has been hard for the last few years to find time to work on it, however I will be graduating this june and have finally started to get this thing back in motion. When we got the car it was a complete mess, well it still is, but its getting there slowly. The number one thing that is giving me issues is the wiring. I can do almost anything I need to do on cars as I grew up around them and have had a few other projects but wiring has always been my kryptonite. So I will be turning to Ratsun for help. I absolutely love this board, everyone here seems very helpful and just all around genuine people. Anyway less talk more oics! The first oic is from when I first brought the car to my house after it was signed over to me. The rest of the oics will be a photodump of everything in my photobucket, not necessarily in order. I will update as I go with more oics and lots of questions! The PO started the KA swap but didnt finish it: PO also cut about half of the stock wiring harness out of the wagon so wiring has been a PITA My old 240sx daily: KA that I built for the 240 then sold: 2 Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Hello everyone, I'll try to make this introduction short cause long posts suck. Sez the 300 word intro poster. :lol: :lol: Welcome, you have arrived. Catch your breath and we'll start to get this goon back on the road. 1 Quote Link to comment
sleven36 Posted February 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Ha Ha yea I figured it wasn't going to be possible to have a short intro. I was out in the garage for about 4 hours today trying to get the headlights going to no avail. There was no head light relay when we got the car so I am trying to convert it to use two bosh style relays but I can't find a definitive wiring diagram showing how to do it. First question are the stock head lights supposed to have two or three prongs mine have two however the connector has three slots :confused: So far on the wiring I have been able to get working: -hazard flashers in back, only driver side in front( accept when I turn the right turn signal on then both fronts flash) -Tail lights - no turn signals yet( I think the signal switch is kaput) I hear these are hard to come by Quote Link to comment
MicroMachinery Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Brights will have 2, low beams will have 3 Quote Link to comment
TENDRIL Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 sent you a msg about my headlight relay upgrade! awesome goon welcome 1 Quote Link to comment
sleven36 Posted February 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 well aperently I have 4 brights then lol 1 Quote Link to comment
Tristin Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 I used to live in Tehachapi and spent many nights in Bako. Welcome to the site. Quote Link to comment
mrbigtanker Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Good of you to keep it going and sorry about your loss.Nice goon i want one. Quote Link to comment
sleven36 Posted February 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 So I got these for my birthday today and decided I'd throw them on. These things are awsome. Nice and firm. The only complaint I have is they give you cheap ass plastic air valves, I dont see them holding up to long. Got them both in, then relized the air line would be hitting the exaust on the drivers side so I flipped it around and it was good to go! Quote Link to comment
sleven36 Posted February 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 A few weeks ago I went and had my exaust made at a local shop. It's 2.5 inch mandrel bent with a single magnaflow, sounds just how I like it, not to loud at idle but comes alive above 2k rpm. Do have a couple issues with it though. They left a pretty decent size hole by one of the hangers and I had them weld in vband flanges between the header and exaust but I can't get the vbands to stop leaking. Quote Link to comment
flyfish Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Can you read the paint code up by the radiator?? Quote Link to comment
sleven36 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Are you asking about this? Quote Link to comment
flyfish Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Afraid so… Can you read the COLOR NO.________ ? Quote Link to comment
sleven36 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Still trying to get these headlights working to no avail. I tried to use this diagram and i still get nothing. Could it be that i have all four of my headlights only have two prongs, IE no prong for the ground circuit. Quote Link to comment
sleven36 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 unfortunately no I think it rubbed off a long time ago. why do you ask? Quote Link to comment
Dirttrack510 Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Nice project, welcome to the site. I may have the turn signal arm, I'll look around this weekend for ya. Quote Link to comment
sleven36 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 That would be awesome. Thanks! :thumbup: Quote Link to comment
TENDRIL Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 i would take that back to the shop and have them weld it shut!! they fucked up! anywho im pretty sure i took out my relay also to replace it with the two bigger ones, ill go out and check 2maro and report back.. Quote Link to comment
TENDRIL Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 also the color code might be stamped into the core support , try to press down on the sticker to see if there's an impression or look under Quote Link to comment
LS_Wagon Posted September 4, 2019 Report Share Posted September 4, 2019 Resurrecting an old thread. Hi All, I am the Guy who purchased this wagon and looking forward to posting pics of my progress as I go with this project. Rather than start a new thread, I will continue to post here. See you around! Quote Link to comment
banzai510(hainz) Posted September 4, 2019 Report Share Posted September 4, 2019 most 510s will go thru about 20 owners before they find one that actually makes it better/finishes it Quote Link to comment
LS_Wagon Posted September 4, 2019 Report Share Posted September 4, 2019 12 minutes ago, banzai510(hainz) said: most 510s will go thru about 20 owners before they find one that actually makes it better/finishes it Hope I’m #21! Quote Link to comment
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