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so i have still been doing stuff to this all be it slowly. This week it will be getting a new cambelt and the super leaky crank seal replaced which was making the car almost undrivable due to the extreeme oil usage. have also stripped some struts and adjustables down, just need to find someone who's keen to weld them for me. No one I've asked so far hasn't been too keen. found some random springs in my shed the same diameter as these gx61 ones. Heaps softer and pretty close to the same length. so i chucked them in. They are only just captive but captive none the less. Have sorted out some shorter shocks for it already thanks to gomaxgo. just need to pick them up Sits pretty nicely, i'll need to trim the bumpstops down a bit though cos there's only about 3-5 mm travel at the moment. will be widening my longchamps in the next couple weeks too

id probably be keen on those shocks gomaxgo!

mmmmmmmm work equip 01s my favorite so far

Delete this if there is already a disco for this, I couldn't find it though. This looks 100x better low man! What wheels ya gunna go with? How did ya go about the lows? Angle grinder?

Ah I see! Thats dumb, toyota should just keep them all the damn same

Pull ya sensor out of the gearbox and spin it over by hand or with a drill with it plugged in and see if the speedo moves

yeah! i was expecting to find more rust than i first found in it anyway. But its still pretty minimal really. There's a hole in the same place on in the passenger foot well too. I should really get myself a decent welder and learn to weld so i can start fixing my own rust. The guy who does my rust work keeps hassling me about buying shit old cars lol

today i found more rust which is a bit gay. fairly serious chunk of steel turned to powder this came out of the sill, there is a big hole in the inside of the sill under the car

Wow! There must be a lot of cars that slip through turners etc for fuck all. Even newer cars that have been repossessed or stolen or whatever go for peanuts most of the time

Not much really. They mostly get in late 90s early 2000s sorta shit from turners I think. But occasionally something random stuff shows up that's sweet. Then I can't help but try buying it haha

so works been pretty quiet which is cool, means i can fuck around with my car a whole lot i could see through the paint that there was a fair bit of bog along the roof on one side so i set about checking out that situation. i was quite pleasantly surprised to find this ... because the hole at the bottom here was filled in completely with bog haha macgivered this air filter up haha. works surprisingly well actually and quiet too and a gc from nzdatsun sorted me out a straight hatch and rear bumper. Even dropped it off to me at my work, awesome. After fitting the other hatch and bumper though its now pretty obvious how much of a smack its had in the back. Its going to need some heavy duty pulling power to get it straight enough to latch the door again. Found the old owners phone number on an old wof sheet in the car and discovered that the shitty matt black paint is actually a pretty decent duropox primer which is sweet.

ow fuck thats gay... a sad day for toyotas

I bet you do! So you want to buy a sun shine wagon??

I'm on a roll alright! Hopefully I don't find anymore sweet cars there again for a while, 4 active projects is a bit much at one time haha. Yeah flares are dumb unless my wheels were another couple inches wider. Guard / tyre gap gets bigger with out them on tho which sucks

so it happened again... along the junk yard i was wondering and across this i stumbled... looks like its had a hard life so far with its matt black hiding god knows what and the rear end damage BUT i thought i had better rescue it, prolong its life, and keep it having a hard time for a little longer yet. I've always had a bit of a soft spot for these old wagons and ke36s and the like so i kinda had to get it despite my ever growing fleet of old money pits haha After some discussions with the owner i managed to make it mine for a fair price. Turns out he got it in to use the engine as a spare for his mini stock or something so ive ended up getting it minus the A12. Luckily that suits me just fine as i have had a pretty decent A15 sitting in my driveway for a month or so waiting for something just like this! Monday it got forklifted down to my work due to the wheels on it not being able to even turn as a result of the extreeme wrong offset of the wheels fitted to it haha Tuesday i removed the a12 and in went the a15. Changing these engines is around one million times easier to remove/replace compared to the 1gge in my gx61! And had a good lol at the home made air filter - chicken wire, a rag and the end of a spray can haha This is the damage at the back. Hopefully be fairly easy to fix up. Also looks like i've already sussed out the spare parts I'm gunna need too - sweet! Then because i couldn't move the car at all due to the wheels this motivated me to get some tyres for my equips I've had sitting around for a while. I've gotta say i think they look pretty sweet on there. I'm really not a fan of the flares but they can stay on for now cos they are hiding some pretty horrendous guard rolling/flaring/rust holes on the back guards. Wheel fitment is near perfect without the flares on there too Kinda digging the rat look at the moment too, which is good cos i don't really want to spend much money on this at this point in time and ratty = not very spendy Discuss etc here - //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/39682-be4vers-ratty-datsun-wagon/

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I like those odds!

Well that's not what I wanted to hear! .... But thanks Cetus! What do you think the chances would be of a 1500 slipping through in place of a 1200 haha

Fuuuuuck I'm confused now haha

Needs revin though. Probably get away with it for a wof easy enough but revin = cunty

I'm sure this has been covered somewhere here before but I can't find anything about it anywhere. Anyway I have just acquired a datsun sunny wagon, it had a 1200 (A12) in it and I have a 1500(A15) sitting around. If I put the A15 in it would it need cert? Please and thank you

awesome cheers man!

That looks fucking sweet man!! Do you know any measurements of your struts? Like how high up ya welded the threaded sleeve onto the strut and what's the total height of it? I've stripped my struts down but don't really know where to cut lol Also what do ya have in the back?

Cheers man! I don't actually know where the bands came from, I brought them off someone on the Facebook jap wheel classified page.

it wasnt broken but i most probably would have broken it getting it out, i tried taking one of the side ones out and it was brittle as fuck and i wrecked it fendatsuremeis? fender mirrors you mean? if so yes they are