New Zealand Datsun Club

Got all the bits to put it back together now:

Rocker cover, I got it hot tanked, it came up pretty good, couple of little bits of paint I still need to get rid of. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about the writing, I thought it was raised so I could just tape over it and paint but it's recessed, might have to tape over the whole raised bit and then paint in the recessed bits with a brush?




Got the lower ball joint back yesterday, they've put a new boot on the outer tie rod end which I'm replacing anyway and have given me a spare boot for the inner which I'll chuck on.





Made this up last night for the fuel pump, the welding looked better before I ground it back to redo it. I haven't swaged the other end, it's only low pressure but I might put a couple of little tacks on there so the hose won't fall off.

nice man, i reckon the tappet cover would look sweet left as is, maybe with just a clear coat. will definitely be different

Wicked man, I love the FJ rocker cover's they are so manly haha. +1 for clear coat, but red always looks great on them!

It's hard to beat VHT wrinkle red for that original look



You just paint the whole thing then scratch off the paint on the top section above the letters and polish

^^ so sexy how could you not.

Well I gave in to peer pressure, pity it's the cleanest looking thing in the engine bay now!




My fuel line piece that I made up isn't going to work as it is, it needs to be more like a 90 degree which I think will crush if I try to do it. Might have to have another play with the bender and maybe do it in two bends?

OH YEEEEAH It looks super tidy! I really like it

Got it going again tonight, was hoping to get it ready for the warrant recheck tomorrow but didn't quite get there.

Fuel pump wiring was interesting, somebody had been there before. The ground wire has a braided shield around it by the looks of it for some reason? Might be to do with the fuel pump controller thingy. The blue wire is the +12V for the pump, it's really tiny. I'll use these to switch a relay running heavier wire from the battery later.




Fuel pump setup for now. I'll probably change it a bit further down the line once it's legal.




New sway bar bushes and outer tie rod end.




Still need to do:
Bleed the brakes and hope they work okay
Put the headlight stalk unit back on and hope that I've fixed the headlights!
Put the steering wheen back on
Put the car back on the ground and do up the wheels & lower control arm bolt
A skid

Bleed the brakes and filled the diff back up with oil. Put the rest of the interior back together, after reassembling the headlight switch I turned them on to see if it was fixed, walked around to the front of the car to have a look at the lights then walked round to the window again to see smoke slowing coming out of the steering wheel area, turns out whatever I used to try and clean the contacts with didn't evaporate and left a residue on the contacts themselves haha. Oh well, the left hand light still wasn't working properly so I pulled the switch apart again.





The furthest away contact is the one for the left hand low beam, it looks like it wasn't quite making contact properly as when the light was dim if I touched it very gently the light would go full brightness. I tried to bend it very slightly but it wasn't really working so I took my spare HR30 stalk apart and swapped the white part that the plug goes into with the two screws in it, this seems to have fixed it. I cleaned everything off as well so no more smoke this is a full current through the switch setup like the other early Nissans/Datsuns by the looks of it.

Had a go at tightening up the steering box as well, different people have different methods but I went with the one that made the most sense to me where you adjust it with the steering at full lock as this is the least used part of the gear, if you adjust it up on the centre (most worn) part of the gear when you get to the least worn part it's going to be over tight. Somebody had tightened up the power steering line so that it was blocking access to the adjuster screw so I had to undo that and move it out of the way. I haven't driven the car yet, I'll have to see what it's like tomorrow.

Warranted and just about legal! I cocked something stupid up which I had to waste two nights this week trying to fix but it's all good now

Have some of these on the way (thanks James). Not too sure I'm going to use them for this but we'll see.