New to Nissan and 2wd. My 85 720 with 90k miles

[PNW720]

Ive been into 4wd Toyotas forever, but recently found a pretty clean 720 for a decent price and decided I had to have it.

 

When I bought it the previous owner already put on a Weber carb, smog stuff is deleted, cat delete with a muffler, bigger fuel tank and a freshly rebuilt head.

 

Heres a picture when I brought her home.

 

 

I cant leave things alone so I dropped the front end via torsion bars and put 3" lowering blocks in the rear. Its not a fast car by any means but its so damn light, I love driving it. Here she sits now. (ive since removed the chunky rear bumper)

 

More to come! Next will be wheels and tires. Im thinking some simple machined face wheels with a lip or some BBS replicas. Im gunna start needing your help figuring out the biggest offset/tire I can stuff under there without rubbing.

 

 

[_chiefjt]

Nice truck. Everyone has such clean front bumpers while mine looks like shit. lol

 

As for wheel selection it's slim. You gotta hit up Dawa for those JDM wheels from Japan. 

[ggzilla]

Its a lot of miles, but no worries, Datsun can easily go 150,000 miles before needing a engine rebuild or suspension rebuild.

 

Looks nice too!

[Nissan_Boy85]

Make sure you re-torque those head bolts. 60 ft lbs, one at a time, any order. Those Z24s are known for a head gasket problems.

[PNW720]

Good advice, will do. Im assuming ill need to pop the cam out to do this?

[mrbigtanker]

Dude I love 720's and that is one clean ass truck.ruckycharms you got a run for your money.

[ggzilla]

Good advice, will do. Im assuming ill need to pop the cam out to do this?

No need to do that. Follow the directions in your repair manual as there are multiple ways to make the engine worse. That being said it is fairly easy to retorque the head gasket.

 

One way to mess it up is to put RTV on the cam cover. Keep it simple, do only what's needed. Reuse the cover gasket, if it is torn or deformed get a new one. Use no sealer.

[Justin Berni]

Clean truck! Watch out for excessive tire wear tho, I just went from 80% tread to having wire showing cuz I didn't get an alignment right after lowering!

[Omelet720]

It looks as though you've got mud flaps up front, or am I mistaken?

I'm curious, how are they bolted on?

Very nice truck! The color will grow on you =D

[supererogator]

The mud flaps, which I do not have, but want, and have looked at, are a bolt through ordeal.  It looks as if there are holes that you could put body clip-nuts on and bolt straight to the body.  I saw many after market copies (and "universal fits", which are not what I want) on ebay recently, that I cannot find now....it was a late night wish search and I cannot replicate the moment....all in all, it should be an easy achievement, if you can find the OES flaps.

[Omelet720]

Yeah, I've seen all of the universal fit flaps, as well as fender flares, but I would much rather have the OE parts.

Mainly though, I would prefer not to drill into the body and more than needed. I already drilled holes in the bed rails for my toolbox 2 years ago, and I do regret it.