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what brocky said. you get the early 80s hilux diff. need to weld the spring mounts from the h190 on, but its narrower by around an inch each side. OR talk to ja1lb8 on here. hes got the v12 38 chev tudor with all the turbos. He shortened his h190 in his 130 cedric a fair bit. I think he said there was some spare spline on the axles. I think there was only an inch total in it.

Just got back to taranaki. Had an awesome time. massive thanks to everybody who organised it. and snoozin for the hubcaps!

yea tell me about it.. 5 speed. just found out my neighbour has a press so i can change the bearings with more ease. hope to get it done and assembled tomorrow night

Some progress on the gearbox front i chose the L series gearset as it had the better ratios. I thought i would just change to the column change selectors and be done with it. one problem with this is that nissan went to a larger 1/2 selector shaft in the later gearboxes I couldnt run the larger shaft as the selector that fits it is for the bigger synchros that the earlier gearset does not have. Here is the larger 1/2 selector on the earlier shaft 14mm vs 16mm The column change 1/2 shaft also has a notch in it for clearance of the selector. I decided to make a sleeve to fit the fork to the shaft. cant be that hard. Using some precision engineering skillz i learned from my brother in law Ray, I lined up the 2 detent notches and marked where the new hole for the dowel pin needed to be. I ground a flat and dot punched it then drilled. Some of my workmates told me i would never drill it as it was some kind of hardened tool steel shit. They were wrong. I used this fine quality chinese drill press and only fucked 4 drill bits Then i made this sleeve up to go from 14mm up to 16mm. Pressed it on, machined a notch in it with 20 axis angle grinder Test fit last night. Its the top one WIN

Hey Brocky! good to hear you still have the wagon. im looking at making moulds of the tail light lenses to make some more as i have been looking for 2 years now and only 1 set have come up world wide and they went for silly money. Ill make a set for you. Not sure about Wagnats, location good, timing bad. still keen

couple of interior pics for those that are interested short people in the back hearse spec http://s470.photobucket.com/user/fraz_bandit/media/260c%20wagon/20141002_165818_zpsb83bc960.jpg.html'> hope to get around to the interior one day. Not really a priority as its all there, just tired

Cheers Matt, good to know. I have found a driveshaft, speedo cable, extra column change linkage, and a few leads on a diff so looking good for going back together in time for the leadfoot cruise

I pulled the 3 speed box the other day to do a measure up. its 135mm longer than the boxes i have. dammit. You can see the extra length here and here The design of the 3 speed box (and 4 speed as an option in some cars) has all the gears in the front half of the box. The rear part of the shaft has no spline on it for 5th and reverse. My first plan was to slip some extra gears in, that was before i opened it up and saw the bare shaft. See the pic below, there is also no room for 2 pairs of gears to fit in the longer housing. At least the mounts line up So heres where im at today I need a driveshaft like this, but 135mm longer, which is 452mm between uj centres. Same yoke as s13/s14/r32 etc I went to a few wreckers today and they all told me the sideways hat brigade has bought them all to do manual conversions on laurels and cefiros. I did stumble upon a GD21 navara at a wreckers on my way home with the parts i need but i have to wait a few days until they decide if they are going to wreck it or keep it for a farm hack. Also looking for a tidy H190 diff head. 4.11. Diff code HF41. came out in ka24e d21 navaras. i dont think we got them, or japan either. I drove one in american samoa a few years back, but im not going there again..

Electric window is on the passenger side rear quarter. Back before the days of angle parking, When people parallel parked, mum could walk up to the car with her shopping, stick the key in e barrel in the rear quarter and drop the window to chuck shit in, then back for more shopping. There is also a switch up front so you can give the dog/kids some air while driving The rear seats are fold up rear facing. ill get some of the interior in a day or so. the whole floor folds down flat. its massive. For a datsun..

So i have been keen to increase the number of speeds in the wagon since i got it. I picked up a z16 column change d21 navara box cheap ages ago, and pinched a l series box from ray recently. the other day i pulled the front housings off both boxes for an inspection and to put the L front on the z rear. The z box is a FS5W71'C' and the L box is a 'B' No major differences, slightly wider gears in the C, larger countershaft bearing, larger 1st/2nd selector fork. The only problem i see is the ratios of the z16 box are terrible. see the table below z16........Lseries.....260c wagon 1st 4.219.....3.321......3.143 2nd 2.539.....2.077......1.641 3rd 1.641.....1.308......1 4th 1...........1 5th 0.818.....0.864 Currently 1st gear in the wagon is not bad, maybe a bit tall, so the 3.321 of the l series box i have would be good. For an overdrive, ill take whatever i can get. Im thinking i should fit the l series internals into the c series case to get a better spread of gears. Or buy a few cheap boxes and mix and match the gear sets.

After our road trip at new years the car was running bad and getting worse. The carb kit i ordered came in so Gen and i rebult the carb. I thought it would be a simple strip, clean, new gaskets and o-rings, and throw it back together. But it was not to be. The main shaft in the carb has worn into the housing and the butterfly has worn the side off. This made a big air leak that was making the idle bad. I think it was caused by the mechanical linkage from the firewall being spring loaded towards the firewall and pulling on the shaft. The shiny bits on the shaft are where the shaft has worn, and also worn into the carb base. Also, both screws sheared off when i undid them LUCKY for me, i had another carb in stock from an e13 datsun sunny. Its the same carb but later type. The 240c and 260c have the hitachi DAF 342 carb, and the sunny had the later DCH or DCF 342 carb. the 342 means 34mm secondary, 32mm primary butterfly. The later carb is a better carb and has electronic choke, but my one was damaged by the spectacular failure of the engine it was attached to. Im looking for another one as the jets all swap over. Long story short, i swapped the main shaft, butterfly, and bushes into the 260 carb and it went back together sweet as. I didnt bother cleaning the outside as the air cleaner covers it Now it starts and idles with no choke! Great success! I also fitted a rebuilt 280z electronic distributor. The points were shitting me so i got one from ebay us cheap and threw it in there. Its a common mod in the 240/260z community. You have to change the base plate to suit the dizzy. Ooohh shiny! Dizzy installed I didnt have a 12v coil in stock, or the time to scrounge one off one of rays relics, so i just did the quick bypass on the ballast to give the 6v coil 12v. gets warm but runs sweet I put Gen to work cleaning the interior, but it obviously was hard work and boring so she went to sleep.. My old man took it for a test drive and got 15 minutes away when a cloud of smoke came out of the dash and the engine stopped. Turns out an electrical addition by the previous owner was loose and shorted out. It blew one of the fusible links in hte engine bay. Lucky the car comes with a spare which went straight in and away it went again.

We bought a 40foot container over at the beginning of november. It cost more to get from mackay to brisbane, than brisbane to auckland.................. Got it registered 2 dec. was easier than i thought. Took it to silvia park vtnz. Had no trouble. Kangaroo dent in front bumper. I hope it can be repaired without re-chroming. First job back home was to strip the electric window in the rear quarter. It was only going down 1/4 before tripping the circuit breaker. No photos but i stripped it all apart and greased everything and the slides and now its nice and smooth, and fast. While i had the cover off the inner guard, i popped the dent out of the back quarter. Can hardly see it now. The dash is pretty far gone from 40 years of Tamworth summers, so i got a new one from Japan. It wasnt cheap... Hope to fit it in a few months For new years we went away to the beach with a few mates. around 1200kms all up. The chev had some pretty big running issues on the way there and we discovered a big vacum leak in the inlet manifold. Once that was solved it ran a million times better. The 260c has been running worse and worse and when we got back, I discovered the vacuum hose to the brake booster was all old and hard and split. Fixed it up and it runs far better

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discussion here //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/45321-fletchs-1974-datsun-260c-wagon/ Bought this car back with me from OZ end of 2013 when i moved back here. Its pretty original, got it from the original owners in Tamworth, NSW. They were getting a bit old so it has slight damage to every corner. 8 seater wagon, factory AC, 3 speed manual an the column, electric rear side window. Pretty flash for its day. It belongs to my mrs. she liked it so i put it in her name. so i can get another one Here's some photos. When i first bought it Back at my place in qld. 2000kms from where i bought it. Only lost 1 hub cap and hit 1 skippy on the way Then i reconned the front end. Yuk Steering arms refurbed with new boots and a few pumps of grease I have had a battle sourcing ball joints before. Its hard to find front ball joints for this model or the earlier 130 model. One option is to fit the whole 330 series front end. I could not find a 330 front end without buying the whole car so i did a bit of creative engineering and reamed out my axles to suit the later, and more importantly, available, 330/720 ball joints Sorted!

keen as! unable to attend leadfoot festival due to scheduling conflicts.apparently the father should be at the birth these days... so this will be as close as i can get!

strange that the light is on and your still getting 13.5v.

rays got a 130 cedric. same suspension as 230. ill try and find a photo but i doubt it. maybe ray can supply one. his username is ja1lb8 on here. send him a pm also, on my 130, which ray owned previously, he flipped the second leaf and clamped it back together and it was low as, the bump stops were doing alot of work!

from memory xf coils fit the front and are a lot harder. edit- less a few coils this one time me and ray took his rear leafs to pickapart and compared them to everything in the yard and came home with bedford jumbo or something like that leaves. they are a single leaf, and flat, just need a new locating hole drilled in them. putting lots of power through the rears and springs dont twist or anything.

sorry couldnt make it, ended up working late. might have the wagon up here for next time

Keen. Just moved to town at xmas and haven't met any bandits yet