Guest D1RTY6 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 The L26 in the prvious post wsa no good and after much frustration i bit the bullet and found a new engine.. It just happens to be surrounded by a car Uploaded with ImageShack.us Brought this H330 260 Brougham off John (broke) I'm sure a few of you have seen it before. Plan is to use the L26 out of it for the Gloria. I will keep the brougham front as they are difficult to find and put the rest with my two spare engines on trade me for a $1 reserve. Keep an eye out! With that said i'm am quietly confident that the Gloria will be back together hitting the roads this weekend. Discuss //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?showtopic=31099 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest D1RTY6 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 What a weekend!! Pretty much just finished up! where to start. Cracked into the engine transfer on Saturday morning nice and early. Managed to pull the old L26 out pretty fast and unbolted the gear box and chucked the engine to the side (confirmed it was seized) Unbolted the engine and autobox from the white car (rusted together bolts caused me a lot of frustration) and bolted the flywheel, clutch and manual gearbox back up to its new home on the New L26! had alot of trouble unbolting the filler bung on the gearbox ended up giveing up and bolted the engine and gearbox into the Gloria! So that pretty much ended day 1 next morning pretty much bolted up all the bolt on parts alternator power steering etc finally had everything on so thought i would give it a we start see if it would kick into fire, but nothing after a quick look around we noticed the fuel pump wasn't working! after a few texts from Brock ended up rewiring it and Boom engine runs!! big smile on my face finished off the plumbing bolted everything and it runs pretty good! stoked Gearbox was the major frustration of the day, couldn't get the filler bung of no mater what we tried, ended up some will probably laugh at this attaching the engine crane to the tow bar jacking it up ans high as we could so the gear box was on an angle and very VERY slowly poured the 1.8 litres of gearbox oil down where the driveshaft goes! Took a long time! Jacked the car back down double checked the important parts and for the first time in a year the car drove under its own power! was a extremely good feeling! have a few little things to adjust before its road legal We video! Nathan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1RTY6 Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Been a while since i have posted here, So ill give a breif update of the last few months Got this running Daily driver got stolen Needed car to get to work so took Gloria for WoF, failed on stupid stuff (exhaust been classed as lowest point, a couple of minor dents) Took it for recheck at different place, only failed on a few minor bulbs etc, Got a WOF Proceeded to be stoked that it had a WoF Alot of fucking around with the fuel system as it was causing problems and that about brings us to last weekend were i fixed the fuels issues! still needs a tune but its running alot better! So i have registered for Old School Nats in March, need to make sure the old girl is up for the trip! would be nice to have her sitting on some new rims before then but that will depend on how much i can save of the xmas break Discuss //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/31099-dirty6s-1978-c331-datsun-gloria/page-4 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1RTY6 Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 So haven't really updated in a while sorry guys Got it a new WOF the other day Also have sourced another bonnet from RBlover (Ivan on NZDatsun) he kindly gave me to front guards aswell, they arent in that great condition but panel beater might be able to use parts of them Also picked up these the other day, they are 14x6 +11 Long Champ 3 piece welded rims (unfortunately they aren't genuine but oh well) plan is to get Pine Engineering or Elite to make some new outer lips to make them into 14x7.5 (front) and 14x8.5 (rear) and hopefully they end up looking like this :) Discuss //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?showtopic=31099#p722313 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1RTY6 Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Chin Spoiler 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1RTY6 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Went to Ivans (RBlover) on NZDatsun and tried his 14x8s on, just wanted to see if 14s would look to small before i go and spend money on my longchamps Post thoughts here! Nathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1RTY6 Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Not much has been happening with this unfortunately Still sitting on the fence on weather to run 14s or 15s and have been putting cash aside for a panel beater Smashed the chin spoiler to pieces on our chch roads dont think ill bother with another one till i get a proper one from japan So here it sits...will get some more attention once i sell the SA22 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post D1RTY6 Posted September 23, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 23, 2014 So i sold the RX7 and the Ke36, brought a hilux and decided to start putting some coin into this this was the first step Big ups to Pine Engineering for the refurb! they look incredible! Ended up being 14x8.5 -20 Discussion 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1RTY6 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 So this happened! Finally got my rims and rubber sorted! Little bit of wheel arch gap so could go lower but i think it looks grouse Hate or love here 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1RTY6 Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Finally got to take the old girl on a road trip! No over heating and no other issues! extremely stoked! Discuss Here 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1RTY6 Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Hi guys, Not much has really been happening with this lately got it a fresh WOF the other day and i brought an L28 a while back that im slowly (read extremely slowly) building up, in the mean time i am having cooling issues (again) and im at a loss The problem: The car sits at perfect temp at idle/50km/h (about 1/4 on the gauge) Cruising round at 70-80km/h and it gets to just over 1/2 on the gauge 100km/h its sitting over 3/4 (very close to the H but it has never gone passed that mark) The temp gauge changes very fast i.e stop at at intersection after doing 100km the gauge drops from over 3/4 to below 1/4 in 10 seconds (i timed it) and vice versa when you take of again back up to 100km it heats up to over 3/4 in about 10 seconds. Current set up New alloy radiator (replaced last week to try fix issue) New temperature sensor Solid engine driven fan No thermostat (Put one in but it overheated within 100m of driving it) by passed the heater core as i thought there might have been a blockage. i'm at a loss, i have in the back of my mind that it has to be the head gasket but its odd that it doesn't constantly overheat/no milky oil/loss of power? Tell me its something simple here Nathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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