xHighOctanex Posted March 1, 2016 Report Share Posted March 1, 2016 Hey everyone, I had a post about a KA swap I was doing on my rwd 720, and I mentioned this truck a couple times I think. Anyways, here it is. After a solid thousand bucks and about 2 good months of working on it in my moms garage, driveway, and on the street (73$ ticket for that one, luckily was dismissed), this is my new truck. Got the truck with a smashed windshield, drivers side kc window was smashed, filled with garbage, distributor was in the windshield, motor had a blown headgasket and missing parts and was sitting in the bed. 2 stolen tires including 1 rim, no tailgate, terrible seats, broken torsion bar, headlight smashed, missing some lights, basically just a whole lot of stuff wrong with it. Still got some plans for it, but I'm very proud of how far it has come already. 2 Quote Link to comment
720driver97 Posted March 2, 2016 Report Share Posted March 2, 2016 Looks good I like that tire holder on the back 1 Quote Link to comment
xHighOctanex Posted March 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Looks good I like that tire holder on the back Thanks, it was originally actually made by my friend for his mazda, but after he rolled his truck he gave it to a friend of ours with a ranger and then he sold that truck to another friend of ours who wanted a regular tailgate so he gave it to me. 1 Quote Link to comment
Bound4Baja720 Posted March 14, 2016 Report Share Posted March 14, 2016 so rad! i saw almost the same exact body at the yard the other day, went back today and it was gone....... 1 Quote Link to comment
xHighOctanex Posted March 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2016 Officially decided 720 master race, I have a friend who spun a bearing in his camaro (94),a friend who blew up his just rebuilt 454 in his truck, a friend who blew up his Rangers tranny(the brown one)(towed him home from out in the backroads of town), another friend who spun a bearing in HIS ranger(towed him across town via strap), and then Sunday night got a call to go pull a Chevy out of the mud. Nissan/Datsun master race 1 Quote Link to comment
Lockleaf Posted March 23, 2016 Report Share Posted March 23, 2016 Damn straight. 2 Quote Link to comment
xHighOctanex Posted July 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2016 Painted my tailgate, mounted a high lift jack, mounted an air compressor I got from work (goes to an outlet on my bumper that I just quick connect to an air hose to fill up tires), did some other various cleaning up of the truck like getting my brakes fixed for 1, still working on getting the horn working, ebrake tightened, new rear tires (hopefully getting the front 2 next paycheck, 400$ a pair), windshield washer nozzle and new washer motor, speakers that fit inside so I could put the kick panels on, don't have the stock oil and volt gauges so pulled the sender out and tapped the hole for a fitting and put a mechanical oil pressure gauge in and new volt gauge (will have a second volt gauge for my other battery when that is all hooked up), probably more than I can't think of at the moment. excuse the filter it's from instagram lol as of a few days ago I have another switch on the far right that is for my compressor Going to make a mount on the truck itself for the reverse lights since I took the panel in the back off that was all destroyed, also gonna put 2 flood lights mounted to the bumper so I can see when I'm reversing offroad at night during camping and what not trips. Just a pretty picture of her The compressor before I got it wired in but after it and the air lines were mounted another picture, notice the inner wear on those tires, going to get the control arms from 4x4 parts they're supposed to fix the camber issues and then I need an alignment anyways since I put new tie rods on. Friend owes me an alignment but he graduated and so the school has been closed How my air works and lastly the mount I made for the air at my dads shop That hole is where I had mounted it before (now my license plate covers that) 1 Quote Link to comment
Lockleaf Posted July 22, 2016 Report Share Posted July 22, 2016 Typically, lifting a 720 puts wear on the outside of the tire, adding positive camber. The lifted control arms add negative camber compared to the factory ones. The camber wear you show may be indicative of something else going on. Did you check/replace the lower control arm bushings? Particularly the rear ones? They are often so worn out that the frame mount on the rear has been pounded into a huge oval instead of a tight circle. Twice I've found the wear was so severe, part of the control arm had a groove worn in to it. And that slop let's the tires do lots of independent moving. 2 Quote Link to comment
Lockleaf Posted July 22, 2016 Report Share Posted July 22, 2016 Oh, and I would be interested in that oil pressure sending unit if you have no further use for it? 2 Quote Link to comment
xHighOctanex Posted July 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2016 Typically, lifting a 720 puts wear on the outside of the tire, adding positive camber. The lifted control arms add negative camber compared to the factory ones. The camber wear you show may be indicative of something else going on. Did you check/replace the lower control arm bushings? Particularly the rear ones? They are often so worn out that the frame mount on the rear has been pounded into a huge oval instead of a tight circle. Twice I've found the wear was so severe, part of the control arm had a groove worn in to it. And that slop let's the tires do lots of independent moving. I'll have to check, I still have a box with upper bushings for the drivers side and lower bushings for both sides that I need to do. 1 Quote Link to comment
xHighOctanex Posted July 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2016 Oh, and I would be interested in that oil pressure sending unit if you have no further use for it? Lemme check the yard there are a couple 720s still there, I like to keep a good amount of backup parts just in case, I'll make a run this weekend and see if I can find another unit. 1 Quote Link to comment
xHighOctanex Posted July 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2016 An 84 showed up at pick n pull yesterday so I went today and pretty sure I was the first or second to get to it, the only thing really missing was the distributor, was able to get a full instrument cluster with the clock in it, the little inserts for the hands that hide the top bolt, a nissan center horn cap, the correct round windshield washer fluid sprayer, and a couple other things I forgot. 1 Quote Link to comment
xHighOctanex Posted July 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2016 I just found the clock plug finally (literally couldn't go to sleep without doing it) to anyone wondering the exact position, hopefully they're all pretty much the same, the taped up connector from the truck on my truck was: take the instruments out then follow the closest section of the harness and bend the tabs and then go left, you can't see it but feel for the tab behind the dash on the left side pull it up and the plug was right under that under some tape. Also there was another plug on the opposite side of the harness close to my radio that was taped, 2 wires, purple and i think black was the other wire. Any ideas? I have pretty much everything already. The stock oil and volt gauges are long gone though but it did have them so it cant be for those. 1 Quote Link to comment
xHighOctanex Posted July 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2016 Put a Weber on today, amazing, no more popping at idle, idles pearl, looks better, runs just amazing. 2 Quote Link to comment
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