New Zealand Datsun Club

Yep all in good time Bart.

Bubblejews has been helping with some repairs to the drip rails and sort the rust out underneath them.



Before


Cleaned up.


Look how happy he is welding thin datsun steel



He brought some new rails he had folded up. Hes doing a top Job.


Next on the list is Mint16 is rebuilding my noisey gearbox.

Taking the leaves out to get them reset for more low.

Installing a panhard rod to get the diff in the centre of the car so we can borrow some wider wheels and get the rear guards to fit perfect BRU!

Sweet replacement steel parts I hope they worked out for you since I made them hahaha.

I know who to hound if they don't work then haha. Na cheers mate! There may be a few more.

Yea sweet as anything to help another Datsun fan

Gal, thats why I fitted up a panhard rod too (except I am running modest 7" wheels only)
I remember my sedan was like 6mm biaised to one side, no matter how much I tried to loosen,
things off, muscle it over and retighten, it always found its way back 'home'.

My setup on coupe is OK, but I have some axial flex in the dropper plate, should have made from 10mm steel
but was concerned with weight I was adding.....

If its any help I have dealt with exactly the same issue and had an engineer friend of mine machine up some offset dowels ( that go through the leaf springs ) that work a treat and after hammering the car around Levels last weekend are still exactly where they should be.
You are most welcome to come and have a look - much less mucking around than a Panhard Rod.
Cheers
Dave

b110sss wrote:If its any help I have dealt with exactly the same issue and had an engineer friend of mine machine up some offset dowels ( that go through the leaf springs ) that work a treat and after hammering the car around Levels last weekend are still exactly where they should be.
You are most welcome to come and have a look - much less mucking around than a Panhard Rod.
Cheers
Dave

This set-up does work very very well, there was a bit of head scratching at first, but daves engineer came up with a very good solution

Cheers guys that's a very good idea. Was leaning towards the panhard rod to keep the rear end where it should be as well. Leaf springs must have a bit of sideways flex and getting rid of that should help handling.

The one thing that would concern me about running a panhard rod to try and pull the diff over to compensate for it being 5/6mm out on one side is that you are effectively pulling it sideways against the bushes and in a way binding it up with a sideways loading - (hope this makes sense)
I would have thought that it was best to center everything up and have it move freely up and down.
With good quality bushes they do not play up at all in the rear at all in my experience.
Cheers
Dave

I have all new nolathanes throughout, but just wanted added assurance that diff will stay where I want it under normal and loaded conditions. I basically had diff free hanging and U-bolts backed off. I fixed axle in relation to body with panhard rod, then brought leafs etc to meet axle when tightening, so hopefully nothing is where it does not want to be.