kneesamo Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 Started her up for a stroll around the yard, cloud of smoke over my neighborhood. Cleared up after a couple minutes and ran great. Valve guide seals? Sounds like the guides to me. Today, and threw last week, i've been rewiring my truck. Iv'e gone threw the cab, and engine harness so far, incorporating all the accessory wiring into the new loom, and unpinned and removed all unneeded wires. Set-up two relays for the headlights, which solved their glitchy, and overheating habits. One relay for lows, ones for highs. Heres a link to Beebani's post, which ended my search threw the forums for a cure to my headlight dilemma. BEEBANI'S 620 Headlight Relay Rewiring The truck starts up on it own more often, and idles smoother. The headlight are brighter, and I can finally run with the old school Victory brand H4 headlight housings I picked up from the junkyard awhile back, without totally frying the (already overdrawn) headlight circuit. The truck looks a lot cleaner without the cluster fucked, rats nest of a wiring harness it had before. Here is a pic from a few nights ago. Quote Link to comment
KC Phirus Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 Sounds like the guides to me. Today, and threw last week, i've been rewiring my truck. Iv'e gone threw the cab, and engine harness so far, incorporating all the accessory wiring into the new loom, and unpinned and removed all unneeded wires. Set-up two relays for the headlights, which solved their glitchy, and overheating habits. One relay for lows, ones for highs. Heres a link to Beebani's post, which ended my search threw the forums for a cure to my headlight dilemma. BEEBANI'S 620 Headlight Relay Rewiring The truck starts up on it own more often, and idles smoother. The headlight are brighter, and I can finally run with the old school Victory brand H4 headlight housings I picked up from the junkyard awhile back, without totally frying the (already overdrawn) headlight circuit. The truck looks a lot cleaner without the cluster fucked, rats nest of a wiring harness it had before. Here is a pic from a few nights ago. That's a project I could do as soon as I have the money. I'd like to redo all of the wiring with new plugs and original wire colors. Be a good time to do a tuck also. And what did I do to my truck today? Stared at it. Took a brush to a couple rust spots. I could hear it asking me to drive it. If only it understood that I lost my job and can't afford to put it on the road. Can't even afford the sandpaper to finish body work Tomorrows project is to finish pulling parts from the parts truck so I can fill it with scrap and use the money to insure the kc :D Quote Link to comment
lil89ram50 Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 pulled it out of garage again. drive in cousins '84 chrysler 5th avenue and did plugs,wires,cap,rotor, oil change, fuel finter and air filter. also cleaned and waxed it. made 50 for doing it. started at 8, and was done at 1:00 :) decent day for me Quote Link to comment
jon521 Posted December 20, 2011 Report Share Posted December 20, 2011 installed new fuel pump, did some wiring testing to insure that i won't need to use a jumper wire from + side of battery to coil. So i assume you got that all figured out then? :) Quote Link to comment
Guest kamakazi620 Posted December 20, 2011 Report Share Posted December 20, 2011 Starter went out this morning. Got a Bosch unit, Discount Import Parts had it in stock. I'm running a bosch alt,from same place,Damn germans!!! Quote Link to comment
datsunaholic Posted December 20, 2011 Report Share Posted December 20, 2011 I started the '68 for the first time in probably a year (or 2!) last night. I thought the starter was bad, but turns out it was the battery after all. Unfortunately the sitting has rusted the clutch to the flywheel. Quote Link to comment
Demian720 Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Took it to get align, I dont want to spend another 200 on a pair on tires LOL... Quote Link to comment
skyblue Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 slapped on a new K&N filter. Quote Link to comment
dscottdatsun Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Got my weber installed and running! Quote Link to comment
chester Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 I changed the oil and made a mess like usual. :D Quote Link to comment
Jayden71 Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 I changed the oil and made a mess like usual. :D Cant you do anything without something drippin? Quote Link to comment
chester Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Cant you do anything without something drippin? No! If there isn't anything running all over the place you're doing it wrong! :poke: 1 Quote Link to comment
Jayden71 Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 No! If there isn't anything running all over the place you're doing it wrong! :poke: Word Quote Link to comment
wayno Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 I installed a door seal and window felt on the drivers door on the NL320, half the bolts broke getting the window frame out of the door, but all but one I was able to get them out without drilling, and even the one I drilled, I was able to save the threads, so it was a good day. I need to figure out how all the water is getting in there. Quote Link to comment
Jayden71 Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 Finally figured out the starting procedure for mah truck in cold weather with thah weber. Very happy and a lot less stress on starter. :D Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 You can adjust the electric choke on the Weber so that it starts on one pump of gas, even in cold weather. It can start and idle without having your foot on the pedal. Quote Link to comment
Madness Posted January 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Snagged the back window out of the garage and brought it up to the apartment for a good cleaning. Then the gold leaf will fly! ;) Quote Link to comment
wayno Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 I figured out the reason my freshly rebuilt SD22 engine had no power, it was the pre-filter was full and the inside of it was collapsing, was just shy of getting sucked into the fuel line, I was wondering why it sounded like it had a bigass cam in it, but was more guttless than usual, it usually would die when it got like that, but not this time, keeps it interesting. Quote Link to comment
superharry Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 installed (shoehorned) a L4N71B overdrive auto in my 620. Damn, it has some top end now! Quote Link to comment
Rob W. Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 Did a minor tune-up, fresh oil filter and plugs. Runs great but it did before. Quote Link to comment
jon521 Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 it started snowing last night and got a bit slick so i went to the school parking lot to do some sliding around with some friends Quote Link to comment
datsunaholic Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 Changed sparkplugs in the snow on my DD. No wonder I was getting poor mileage. 55,000 miles (plus whatever the prior owner had) on POS Autolite 63s. I guess I recall I didn't change them 2 years ago because they still looked OK and I was still thinking the engine was going to get changed right away. Nice new set of NGK BPR6ES plugs. Runs much better... starts a hell of a lot easier. Then I tackled all the burned-out lights in the '74. Neither were actually burned out, but I broke one removing it (and had to use screwdrivers and pliers to get the remains out of the rusty socket) and the other simply wasn't making contact anymore- but a new bulb worked. Also done in the snow. Didn't actually get much snow yesterday, not enough to stick around but I aired up my studded snows just in case. It's snowing now. If it keeps up it's gonna be a Work From Home Tuesday. Quote Link to comment
510Chad Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Noticed a raw gasoline smell from under the hood a couple days ago. Can't find any leaks. STILL looking for it...... Quote Link to comment
510Chad Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 Noticed a raw gasoline smell from under the hood a couple days ago. Can't find any leaks. STILL looking for it...... Found said leak. It appears the mechanical fuel pump is leaking. Can't see from where though. Quote Link to comment
Master-O-Turbonics Posted January 22, 2012 Report Share Posted January 22, 2012 Here are some pics from today: I cut up the 521 bed on the donor truck(all rusty on the bed bottom) Mocking up the passenger side: Driver's side: Looks like I'm going to have to lengthen the stock wheel well openings... Still want to look somewhat original but I'm putting together a plan on how to go about opening them up and keep the look. Quote Link to comment
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