TallGuy

Outside. The CL pics

Stripped the the shitty flacking black paint off the grill and trim. What pain in the ass that was.

Inside

He seemed cool. He builds VWs. Said he had a 521 for about a week and sold it due to a paperwork issue.

New NGK wires and Accel coil cured all my starting issues. Found another an electric choke for the hitachi. (PO disconnected the choke) cured most of the idle issues on startup. Fabbed up a top for the air cleaner'. Had the air cleaner but with the bigger motor it didn't sit under the hood so well.

Cause he lives in Corona. ??

Gotta love Mooneyes.

Went to buy bumper brackets. And just bought the whole front bumper.

You know its a bad day when this happens. It's a worse day when you have to sell your Datsun. I've got some updates to the progress that I haven't posted. Kiddo's baseball season was very long. Hopefully the new owner can continue to update on this thread on his progress.

It's got a single point dizzy in it now. I tested the point by putting test light on the terminal , the light when on and off as I spun the engine. I replaced the coil. All the terminal on the ballast check out with a test light. Pulled the from the coil to the dizzy and am not getting spark. Then got it once but seemed week. I guess replace the plug wire from here. Question. Is the coil different form a L16 to an L20?

The screws that hold the speakers in hold that corner down. For now they are just double faced till I can find a set of door card that I can rob the plastic mounts from. Worst cast I'll counter sink the screws and fill and restain. I still need to replace my mirrors, and passages glass/channel/felt. So the temp thing works for now.

Thanks for the advise. I'll follow along accordingly. If I'm replacing parts, Nissan dealer would be my first choice them. Auto parts store after than. Or does it matter?

Since I've owned this it ran pretty well , always fired up and scooted around town pretty well and even made a few freeway trips and hit 70 with no issues. So I hadn't really gone through the motor. A few weeks ago she started acting up. Little things like not holding idle ( I accidentl unplugged the idle solenoid wire when I replaced the master cylinder). Then not holding idle at initial startup. The choke has been disassembled on the carb, I'm manuely doing it till she warms up. Now today it died while driving it and wouldnt fire back up. thankful I was only 4 blocks from my house. So I pushed it home. I guess it's now time to start going through the engine and electrical mess. I checked the coil and and wasn't getting spark off the lead wire. So I'll start there, points, condenser, rotor, cap, wires to follow. Here is what I starting with.

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