30DegreesRetarded

I can’t, we’ve got a chch trip booked that week with the wife and kids. 

I ended up drawing an outline/stencil of the spring and marking the top end of the springs because my eye gauge couldn’t tell them apart. One I think is about 10mm longer. Springs 2years new, only done 50km one em. Both towers have their own spring perch and Haynes manual has them at top of tower (which I’ve done). Hopefully this has it covered. I’m reassembling again now so let’s see. 

I’m stumped.

so I’ve sorted all the dust boots, reassembled to what I thought would be exactly the same set up. But no the passenger side assemble sits lower than the drivers side. (I finger space vs 2).

pulled apart again as I read potentially have left and right spring around wrong way…pulled springs and shocks out but I’m dammed if I can tell ‘em apart.

springs are HQ 6cyl with identical markings.  Spring perch is the same. Would camber spaces/shims have anything to do with it? 
 

now that I’ve looked at the dam things so long I can’t remember which one was in the left or right. 

On 30/12/2023 at 16:06, GregT said:

Is there an Autolign branch up your way ?  I've found them way better than Repco.

Na chch and Wellington. I give em a try though cheers

I went to Repco Blenheim with all the measurements and even the ball joints. They looked at me like I was at a beauty salon … walked out of there.

Went and saw Bert at Repco Nelson and managed to get the tie rod ends off shelf but not the ball joints. The D21’s fit but they don’t sell just the boot, need to buy the whole joint. 

im going to try the local BnT & Supercheap and then start looking through wreckers. 

Pulled front sus out to take a look and try replace damaged/non existent dust boots. Tie rod ends were easy to measure and replace from shelf. 
bottom & top ball joint has a complete replacement (apparently) but the taper is bigger then my H330 measurements. 
instead I purchased the Nissan Terrano bottom ball joints just swapped out the dust boots over. Cost me a whopping $12 for the two so they were easy purchases. 
 

I have 2xD21 bottom ball joints going free if anyone wants (minus the dust boot of course).

im still on the hunt for some dust boots to fit the top ball joint. Can’t bring myself to buy a brand new D21 single for $90. Will try the wreckers first. 
 

im trying to decide how fussy I should be with reassemble of suspension ... Do I completely strip clean, powder coat etc or just give a clean and reassemble.

Left one is the D21. Right one is the H330 with stolen boot. 12mm holes and larger taper, shame it’s not a complete swap.

Fresh WOF and Rego.

Hayden (unsure of his old school name) just welded a 10mm plate to either side of the lowering blocks. Def looks like it needs another 1” to get rear low enough but good for the moment. New 2nd Hand bump stops on front and rear. Job done.

Was struggling a little mentally with putting car seats in so figured I’d send to a Nissan mechanic to look over for peace of mind. Really glad I did as what they found was:

1. Front left bottom arm loose as a goose. Tightened up. 2. Both front tie rod end boots fecked, actual rods all good. They suggested replacement. 3. Park not locking up, readjusted rod from stick to transmission. Park now locks drivetrain.
4. Rear brakes backed off and readjusted (were way unbalanced). 5. Freed up handbrake cable a little more and adjusted to work.

cost to wallet… FREE absolute legends. 
 

The front bump stop distances between stop and contact point (unsure what it’s called) are uneven. One has 2finger space while the other has less than 1finger between. Springs are brand new v6 HQ. Is that normal? 

Legend, just ordered a locking collar now from Adayama. Picture of part number was perfect thanks.

”edit”

turns out it’s the same part number as the collar i used. Will still send to engineers with axle. Atleast they will have something to conspire/use if it is correct

I had no issues with that axle collar when I collected from Denham. Drove it from Palmy all the way to Blenheim no probs. It was awesome, but it just made a shit annoying noise that I wanted gone.

It was only when a purchased a new 260c bearing kit from TradeMe and replaced the axle from another Datsun that my troubles started. 

I talked with Denham and a heap of other dudes from the Datsun club but at the end of the day, I’m no mechanic just a hobbyist.

This was the homemade way I pressed on collar. Heat it up in the oven 180degrees and drove it home with the steel tube. I tried to upload finish pic but file size won’t let me.

I talked to another Datsun/prince owner that had an issues with bearing supply and telling their supplier (Auckland Bearings) they were too big. They were smart enough to send to an engineer friend before installing. 

At the end of the day. I prob should have had it machine pressed by someone in the know. .. so it’s off to CM Coombes to machine a new axle and instal.

Datsun wagon goodness