My First 720. And First Datsun!

[ggzilla]

The fuel hose attaches to the Weber, regardless of the type of fuel pump you use.

 

Most new electric fuel pumps are too high pressure for Weber, and so require a regulator. The more parts you fit the more unreliable it becomes. Many have had problems with bad regulators. Then there is location fitting and wiring and in a wreck comes the risk of fire unless you fit the safety sensor.

 

Or just use the fuel pump that is already installed.

[Brohemius]

Thanks for the info ggzilla. My stock mechanical pump seems to be in great shape so ill leave it.

 

Decided to clean the shit out of my air cleaner since its off the truck and wont go back on lol.

 

Pulled this thing off (maybe someone could enlighten me as to its name.)

 

The hidden metal was fuckin cherry.

 

The hidden paint was in good shape too.

 

Pulled off this california stuff.

 

It had serious carbon build up... The darkness.

 

Pulled the innards apart.

 

 

 

Before and after cleanup.

 

Cleaned up really nicely.

 

Looks almost new now.

 

What a difference!

 

And the main body all cleaned.

 

 

 

 

 

This was behind the carbon caked cali shit.

 

And just because.

These were on the table at work today.

 

For my boss' vw

 

 

My weber should be here tomorrow hopefully.

[Brohemius]

Weber arrived!!

 

Checked everything out and it looks like it will only take a few hours tomorrow morning and she will be running again.

 

Excited to have a weber on my truck!

 

Blurry pic.

 

Install at around 11 tomorrow.

[Charlie69]

Looking good!  Where did you purchase your Weber Kit?

[Brohemius]

Amazon had it the cheapest by about 40 bucks after the Free shipping too. Its the k662 kit. And thanks charlie im really happy on this one. Glad it came and was the right kit haha. Only took 3 days to ship to my door also.

[Brohemius]

Starting to put the weber in, its a little more than i thought... Lots to remove and block up. Im trying to figure out how to block a few thing. what to remove and what to leave is also a little challenging.

[Brohemius]

Weber install complete!!

 

This was the first day i tried... Rained alot.

 

Installed. Minus air cleaner.

 

With air cleaner.

 

Still need to block up a few things and fab a plate but it runs great, it idles perfectly also.

[Charlie69]

Congrats man!!!

[Brohemius]

Thank you very much charlie! Im enjoying it very much so far. Runs great but needs to be fine tuned still.

 

I need to mess with the throttle cable bracket. I think im going to replace the studs and use some standard bolts with a spacer behind the bracket. It hits the weber right now and doesnt sit flush.

 

Also need to fab up a delete plate for the egr and get a buddy to weld the steel exhaust hoses shut at the manifold.

[84720FourWheel]

The egr reduces combustion temperatures which helps the engine run better and more efficiently. I'd do the factory air cleaner mod and Hook the egr back up.

[arizonajones]

Do you have to pass smog down there?

[Brohemius]

In certain counties of oregon yeah. But not where i am.

[denmarkboy]

Do you have to pass smog down there?

 

 

In certain counties of oregon yeah. But not where i am.

 

 

Lane county is one of the last counties in out area to have smog control . Hopefully it will stay that way for a long time . 

[Brohemius]

So my temp gauge seems to be incorrect.

 

 

That is the highest the needle ever goes, even on a hot day driving a bunch.

 

Im assuming my thermostat is bad? Or is that a normal needle possition? Seems to cold.

[84720FourWheel]

My gauge did that too. It ended up being a bad connection in the cluster. I pulled it to install the clock and cleaned all the connections and it started working right.

 

If you ground the wire for the temp sensor, the gauge should peg hot, since the resistance of the temp sensor was taken out of the equation. Unless the resistors on the power side, then you should use a jumper wire to by pass the sensor.

 

If that works, then your wiring is probably good, and the gauge too. So either the temp sensor is bad or you are running that cold and should check your thermostat.

 

Normal needle position is in the middle.

[84720FourWheel]

It is probably on the ground side of it only has one wire at the sensor, so you'd just need to unplug it which would be full cold, then touch it to a good ground.

 

Have someone watch the gauge, I doubt you want to leave the circuit shorted for very long, may draw to much current with out the resistance from the temp sensor.

[Charlie69]

If you have a NAPA near you check the price there also, I have been getting better pricing from NAPA than O'reillys.

[Brohemius]

I have a napa less than a mile from my house. What part are you referring to charlie?

Gonna do all the steering parts when i get home from california, as well as the thermostat issue and so on.

[Charlie69]

Any parts the last part I purchased was an alternator for my King Cab.  when I was in Northern Nevada I was buying all NAPA Parts leaf spring bushings, starter, master cylinder, clutch, shocks, brake pads and shoes.  The prices were almost always lower and better quality parts.  Plus the help at NAPA knows what a slave cylinder is.

[Brohemius]

Just to be sure, when doing a re-torque on head bolts (z22) i torque to 60ft lbs?

 

And for the valve cover bolts i just do lightly hand snugged, ~2.2ft lbs?

 

Doing this tonight, please advise asap!

[Brohemius]

I re-torqued the head bolts, drained the oil, and started to change the spark plugs when... The exhaust plug on cylinder 2 was extremely tight, i hoped the plug wasnt cross threaded but sure enough it was. So now i have a stripped spark plug port... Going to deal with that asap. Might just replace the head with an l20b and do an lz22 convertion. Weighing my options at this point.

 

Taking the cover off

 

Cover off, its pretty clean in there

 

Stripped plug port.

 

All the plugs where super knarly. The wires were fucked also,

So i painted the valve cover while my truck is down and out.

 

Sanding.

 

Masking.

 

ALOT more masking.

 

Masking off. I think it turned out pretty damn good.

 

Pictures of the spark plugs tomorrow, i Forgot to get some today.

Glad to have new plugs and wired though at least.

[harlow426@msn.com]

Stripped plug port.

 

I have a good quality spark plug re-threading tap. plugs are 14mm. One end cleans up existing threads, one end of tap makes hole 16mm to facilitate the steel inserts available @ parts store(>$10). Welcome to use it as long as it gets returnd' in as good or better shape(belongs to my pops').Dibs on the z head if you go LZ.

I believe in using ANTISIEZE compound on threads after I get them totally clean with q-tips/carb-choke. Little dab will do-ya.

[Brohemius]

Borrowed the re threader from harlow (thanks again buddy). The 14mm worked a treat and made clean enough threads to get the plug in smoothly. It did seem to be at a slightly different angle than the others. But after the oil change, new valve cover gasket, new plugs, and new plug wires it fired right up and ran way stronger than before the replacements.

This truck will make it to canby!

Put the plug wire organizers on properly and routed the wired decently.

 

Different angle/better light.

 

Now to detail the fuck out of the whole truck.

 

Also thanks to rhino.

[denmarkboy]

Dude reading this just made my day ! I just came in from working on the canby truck , put my feet up and decided to surf some threads .

 

And , BAM ! You got the truck fixed .

 

Just the other day we were talking about a beater to drive while you worked on the truck.

 

Very happy !..nice job

 

I gotta sleep ..

[harlow426@mail.com]

Fixed! That was darn quick! Glad tool worked.

 

So I guess that will make it 3 720kc's headed North Sat am?. 82-83-84 if I get MY truck together in time. Just logged in 4 a min....BACK 2 work. Nice and cool right now. Nap midday Wed when 100deg.