Rdixiemiller

Sucks when that happens. You never know how it was abused when you get it back.

Listening to his scathing criticism of a car is pure artistry.

I like the roll bar and the tires/stance. I grew up in Northwest Florida, all the Datsun trucks ended up raised so you could drive them through the woods. I just can't get into the lowered, cambered look. I know, sacrilege!

It's tough getting over a lung infection. I picked up a fungus in Mexico over 2 years ago, still trying to get it cleared up. Glad nobody was hurt when you lost that wheel. Get better, we are all rooting for you.

Like I said, you have done great work! In my day, we did a lot of refresh jobs, rings, rod bearings, and a valve lapping. It would dry up an oil burn for another 75k miles, at which time the body would have rusted away. When I was turning wrenches, a US car was absolutely worn out at 100,000 miles. Body was loose, engine smoked and rattled, rusted......... Then we would see these little Datsuns and Toyotas. Small "crap boxes" as the die hard big 3 guys called them. But they ran, and ran, and ran. Quality was so much better than US cars. In the late 70's, it was not unusual to need 10-12 trips back to the dealership for warranty issues. Japanese stuff went back once, usually because the driver needed something explained to them. Owners manuals were hilarious back then, Jinglish............ I never saw a 510 until much later, in Georgia. I'm not sure any were sold new in my area. I have really enjoyed looking at y'alls build ups, makes me want to find one......... Of course, I have my Samurai to finish rebuilding, and my wife's Viper keeps me busy.........

Hey guys..... Been lurking for a while. I'm an old fart, I worked on Datsuns back in the late 70's when they were fairly rare in NW Florida. Rebuilt a few that had been run hot, and blown head gaskets and softened the rings. That clatter, or "cackle" as my boss used to call it is wrist pin noise. I built a 1972 ? L 16 engine, and had the same cackle at idle after we rebuilt it. You never heard it before the engine was refreshed (rings, bearings, and a hone job). One of the possible causes is if there is a cylinder ridge that was not reamed out all the way. The other one, that my old boss thought was more likely, was that with a freshly honed block, and new rings, there is more drag, and the piston "sticks" a bit at tdc, and at bdc. Any slack between the pin and piston or rod will cause a rattle, mostly at low rpm. We ran the engine for a month while we waited on a set of standard pistons, like I said, they were rare back then! New pistons and pins quieted it right down. The rattle won't hurt, I have seen engines go 100,000 miles sounding like that, in non high performance applications of course. You have done a great job on this car, I don't think I ever saw one back when I was twisting wrenches. Mostly pickups, and B 210's. There was a Datsun dealer in Pensacola if I remember right, first one in our area. Again, great job on the car!!!