Carsnz123 Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 I'm coming to the conclusion that I shouldn't listen to @- i5oogt - or @RUNAMUCK. Terrible influences they are. I got shown some pics of a slightly sad looking R30 wagon by Karl whilst picking up another car. I informed it was in @Slacker_Sam.s possession and he was looking to offload it. Rego on hold, Cert for LD28 + 5 speed, 1000k of RCU in credit, and pens in the foot well! To the question "Should we go and get it?" I couldn't say no. To make the trip from Christchurch to Motueka worth while we planed it to coincide with @datto_610 and @NickJ getting Greg's 120YTHEFUCKDIDIBUYTHIS and I towed @RUNAMUCKs Kraut Barge to its demise. @- i5oogt - also had business in Blenheim so a trip to the VCC parts shed there for some barrying was in order (they had a stock of vintage Chev stuff I wanted to raid). Left CHCH at 7am got to Motueka at 6:30Pmish dumped off the Bavarian Money Waster, grabbed some food and boose, and headed out to where this wagon was parked. It was pitch fucking black. Not one of my better ideas to load up in the dark. Whilst loading up by the light of Sam's Newschool car the old Barry whose house it was at offered us a good deal on another sedan shell with an L20ET plus a few LD28s and gearboxes. couldn't say no again so another trip is being planned. With car strapped on and BBQ supplies in the tray we hauled ass over the hill, paused to get the plate number of an old car(whats that plate Baart), to @yoeddynz and Hannah's for a BBQ and to camp out in their shed (Thanks for the hospitality guys). The next morning was the first time I saw it up close in daylight. Karl said "what do you think pf your new skyline Will?" "What the fuck have i gotten myself into?" is all I could think. on the trip home the cars fuel tank came into contact with the trailers winch and ruptured it proving there was diesel in it and it was sealed up until then. We got back to Christchurch just on dark and kicked the R30 off the trailer in Mum's driveway. It was at this point a couple welds on the trailer decided to break. I blame that lard of a Bimmer. Discussion thread: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carsnz123 Posted June 17, 2018 Author Share Posted June 17, 2018 This weekend was filled with assessing what is required to get the R30 driving legally again. Plus a date with Mr Karcher and degreaser was organised. So far I need an engine/trans, 3 Doors, tail gate, tail lights, front guards, steering idler bush, and tyres. Also need to gut and clean the interior to remove the stink, fix a little rust, remove and reseal the Jurassic Park windows at the back, attack the springs with a grinder, and fix the fuel tank. Good thing I've got a few sedans I can rob bits off, just need someone with wagon specific stuff for the likes of lights and tail gate. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carsnz123 Posted June 24, 2018 Author Share Posted June 24, 2018 Spent time on the skyline this weekend but it was mostly hooning around buying stuff rather than actual work/fixing. Got a rust fucked car out of a guys back yard for parts. It should be good for power assist steering, interior parts, couple doors, bonnet, guards, and maybe the hatch with a little work. But the right taillight is fucked. SHIT. oh well. It was a bastard to get on the trailer with the rear wheels having no tyres and the front being flat. The other wagon I looked at seemed too good to strip for parts even though it was a little rusty. Spot the double mirror option on the drivers side. The actual work I did do was removing the damaged front and inspecting for rust. Nissan painted theses things after assembling them and as a result they usually rust out behind the front guards and in the A pillars. It would appear someone has had the guards off previously and gone to the bother of painting the inside. Nothing major on the passenger side just some surface rust in spots. Drivers side was a bit worse and dirt was packed in the bottom of the guard causing a small hole in the sill which will need dealing to. The wack it had in the front was all superficial and only bent a corner on the slam panel. Next weekend will be attacking it with a wire wheel, Brunox, And some paint. And hopefully get an engine running for it. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carsnz123 Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 Update thyme. I'm a little slack as taking pics goes. Tried bleeding up the brakes with no success. Massive leak from the rear. Took drums off and it was pretty obvious what the problem was. Had to swap a drum off the parts car on after the steel shoe fucked it. There was also next to nothing left of the front pads. Fitted new rear shoes, wheel cylinders, and front pads. had to take corrosion off the drums with a bit of 60 grit sand paper. Right Left Dropping the fuel tank out exposed the damage which the trailer winch had done I also could see inside the car through holes in the floor which shouldn't have been there and once I cleaned out the boot I discovered water has been pooling around the outside of the sound proofing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carsnz123 Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 The front suspension was half disassembled and missing some parts so I used the best bits out of 2 parts cars to assemble something that should pass a wof and do for the short term but new bushes and balljoints will be on the cards in the near future. The R30 suspension is really light weight. I had a look at the possibility of fitting an R180 IRS setup out of a sedan into the wagon. It's doable but will require some fab work fitting strut towers and the rear mount for the diff. So it's H165 solid axle for now. In order to get a set of rust free doors I nicked one of @- i5oogt -s cars and stole the doors with monsoon shields on them but I'll loose the snazzy 80's decals. And to get a transmission I had to remove it from the car it was in. And then I rear mounted the engine. Whilst moving it with the tractor I accidentally holed the sump and put dirty diesel oil everywhere. Fuck it's hard to get off concrete. Will have to attack with a steam cleaner next weekend. The cars dash says 233K which translates to just-run-in in LD28 terms but the transmissions drain plug shows a not so nice story. Might spin it up with the lathe full of diesel to clean it out. https://imgur.com/2grUuMK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carsnz123 Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 The next issue was that the current stock of LD28s in the garage refused to start even with a little persuasive squirt of start ya bastard. looks like I'll have to learn how to rebuild diesel pumps and injectors. Because time is short I looked for running LD28s for sale. Looked at a couple that supposedly ran when parked but had been sitting outside uncovered for ages. Finally found one for a reasonable price and sounded promising when cranking over. Picked it up a day later and managed to get it to start in the shed with no effort. I think the stem seals might need doing though. When I picked it up the seller had organised his mate with a small hiab truck to load it. After the engine was loaded on the trailer he told me he had a LD28 powered C32 laurel that he was looking to get rid of. Apparently too much rust for a wof and dead rego but was running in the last few months and doesn't burn oil. Did a deal sight unseen (aside from a photo on a phone) and I'll test out the car towing capacity of Karls TD 260C on Friday when I pick it up in the dark. Seems to be a running theme with this project. @RUNAMUCK lent me some 17" wheels to try on that ,and I quote, "Looked the tits on my Cefiro". I kinda like them but they'll need spacer to fit the front. Still in two minds whether to use the twin headlight wagon front or the slat grill sedan front. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carsnz123 Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 Potato pic update Picked up Laurel on Friday evening. The Diesel 260C was towing quite happily at 90. A bit smokey getting up to speed. Then I decided to pull off to allow traffic to pass. I miss judged how close to an island I was. Heard a bang and thought a tyre had blown. Nope. Had to get @JustHarry to bring another trailer and tow vehicle. The car was swapped the car to the other trailer and the wheels were taken off the bent axle. we must of looked shifty or something because the community patrol rolled up wondering what was happening. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Carsnz123 Posted July 30, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 30, 2018 I Inspected my purchase the next morning. Pretty lush spec car with a smooth running LD28. The 'Driveline Imports' sticker on the engines cam cover suggests its had an engine change at some time. Of cause i had to load test the engine before it was removed. Forgot to take more pics but basically the engine came out of the car. Didn't have a clutch so couldn't fit it to the skyline. Did some other shit to the front suspension and now it should drive in a straight line. Dropped radiator into shop today to be cleaned. Things are happening @RUNAMUCK 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Carsnz123 Posted August 6, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 6, 2018 Last week I took my transmission and fuel tank to work to fix. Welded up the crack in the tank and then pumped a few PSI of air into it to check for leaks which there were none. I also replaced the input and output shaft seals in the transmission and the front housing gasket in an attempt to reduce the oil leaks. I replaced the rear main seal on the engine too so hopefully the new clutch shouldn't get any oil on it. The weekend's goal was for it to run and drive. Saturday I picked up the new clutch kit and machined flywheel plus a new clutch slave cylinder as all mine were locked up solid and no chance of moving. Removed flex plate from engine, changed rear main, and then came changing the spigot bush. It was in bloody tight, so much so that the usual trick of pack it with grease and hammer a drift in didn't work. Even when I gave it a solid wack with a mallet it just ignited the grease and fired the bolt out. Yeah turns out you can ignite grease with compression. I resorted to cutting a groove in it with a die grinder to relieve the tension and hooked it out. New bush went in with a few taps of a hammer. Flywheel, clutch, and transmission bolted up no issues. Did a few other things, spun the car around in the garage to use the engine crane, had a little tidy up, and then it was engine fitting time. Attempt 1: picked engine up and found it was 180 degrees around on the crane. Put it down and changed the attachment points. picked engine up and slotted into the engine bay. With the engine hard against the firewall the mounts didn't meet by 40mm. Took engine back out and measured the distance between engine and gearbox mounting points and the respective places on the car. It was off by a bit. Turns out I had the the wrong engine cross member. Pulled correct one out of wreck in the dark. Then whilst cleaning it off it was noticed I had a better condition one sitting on the wood bin next to me being used to weigh the cover down. Fitted that and tried again. Attempt 2: Guided engine into engine bay. Was getting hung up on something and not fitting in. Crawled under car and found the sump was hitting the cross member. Took engine back out. Turns out that even though an R30 and C32 are both front sump the sumps are different. Went and found a skyline sump I had that had a dent in it but was usable and hammered some of the dent out. Took sump off engine and made sure the oil pickup was correct. Gave the skyline sump a bit of a clean with brake cleaner and cleaned both gasket surfaces. Fitted Skyline sump to the engine with RTV sealing it in lieu of a gasket. Cleaned diesel oil off tools and tried again. Attempt 3: Slotted engine into engine bay and it fitted like a glove. Finally. The engine mounts took a little levering to get the dowel pins to slot in place correctly but at 11:45pm it was off the crane and bolted in place. Did a couple other small jobs then pushed the car properly into the garage and called it a night at 1am. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustHarry Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 Rust....... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Carsnz123 Posted August 6, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 6, 2018 Sunday I was a little slow getting going after the late night but the show must go on. I bolted the gearbox support brackets on which i'd neglected to do while the engine was out, bolted on the slave cylinder and bleed it. New clutch felt good. I used the front half of the driveshaft out of the sedan I nicked the trans out of to get a good center bearing and to use the yoke that had been in the trans for 233k. The r30 driveshafts are odd with a large diameter front section and the rear section being 2/3 the diameter. Next was fitting the reconed radiator which I found Brendan had soldered a 20c coin over one of the holes left by the now removed trans cooler. When I picked it up he said it was an original core in very good condition but about 30% blocked so it was worth getting it checked. Had to slot the holes on the fan shroud so it cleared the fan for some reason. The C32 bottom hose fitted like a glove and the top one just needed 75mm taken out of the middle so naturally them being in usable condition and to save me going and getting new ones they were fitted using hose clamps I stole off a couple of the wrecks. Wasn't sure what condition the heater core was in so I just looped the feed and return hoses on the engine. While I was filling the diff, transmission, and engine with oil and fitting a new filter i noticed the engine didn't have an oil cooler. Another thing to fit at a later date. Because none of the wires are labeled and all are a bit of a mess It was a little entertaining finding out which did what. I worked out the starter trigger, glow plug, and IP cut which was enough for the moment. The R30 wagon wreck donated it's fuel filter mount and the C32 its filter housing and for the moment the fuel filter (it was water free and clean). A lawnmower fuel tank was plumed in for a temporary fuel supply and with a battery it coughed into life. yay. Before taking it off the stands the brakes were bleed and the clutch slave another check. It was then rolled outside to fill the cooling system and left idling to bleed the air out. Now I could finally take it for a short blast. And short it was..... about 100M. I'd neglected to plumb the fuel return line into the temporary fuel tank so it was firing the excess fuel out the back of the car where the fuel tank should have been. So I ran out of fuel pretty quick. It sounded awesome with the exhaust exiting a foot from the manifold. Being late and I still needed to drive home it was pushed into the garage. Hopefully WOF next week. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JustHarry Posted August 7, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted August 7, 2018 Did most of the work on the tailgate this evening at work.... New lower skin to go on tomorrow. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustHarry Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Finished the tailgate this arvo. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustHarry Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Fixed the driver's side sills this evening Parts car had a rust free boot floor Ready to weld tomorrow  1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustHarry Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 Finished butchering the boot floor this morning 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Carsnz123 Posted August 13, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 13, 2018 Quick Update: @JustHarry Cut some shit And we cobbled together an exhaust system out of some spare 2" pipe and the remains of the parts wagons exhaust. I think it still has the front struts to suit the Z18 because they're not too far off the bump stops. Yay free slam but it gives the car a good 45mm rake front to rear. Saturday night I got very frustrated with wiring because of nothing having plugs and being in odd spots but the Charge light and oil pressure light work, it charges the battery, the fuel tank is bolted in and plumbed up, I bolted a front on the car (which something isnt quite straight), And I started cleaning out the interior. The Parts wagon had a full set of halogen lights which have made their way onto the car. Didn't get it ready for a Wof unfortunately but not much more to do. Just adjust and bleed brakes again, Tidy up then engine bay, clean and fit interior, and get some tyres with tread on them off @Beaubot. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post - i5oogt - Posted August 21, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted August 21, 2018 Oh hey. Some stuff happened today... 18 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Carsnz123 Posted August 27, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2018 So the car made it to Hanmer with some help from @- i5oogt -, @JustHarry, @EpochNZ, And @76rolla_gurl. It was mostly just cleaning and fitting interior stuff and making the brakes work properly. In a moment of poor judgment I drilled through the floor of the car without looking under it and squarely went through the fuel and brake lines. That took up some precious time. I got a set of factory wheels of @Beaubot which had good tyres and found a set of trim rings and hubcaps. The night before Hanmer I took it for my first short drive on the road and found it quite peppy all be it slow. And the valve clearance needed doing. @Nick Ritchie, @Tumeke, And @fletch also showed up the night before and talked words of encouragement? With many eyes on the task the wire for Temp gauge was finally found by fetch and quickly hooked up with quality twist and tape. The master cylinder decided to pack up fully on the rear circuit during hanmer but I could still stop sort of. I stripped it down today and it looks good internally just meeds new seals. The weekend proved the gearing in the rear is a little short and NA dorts are fun but run out of huff on hills. So turbo and taller diff are the next thing. As well as a boot seal. Post rally stage by @SunnyCoupe /tag erryone 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carsnz123 Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 So I still have this and quietly work away at it from time to time. During the Hanmer trip in 2018 it missfired quite a lot and was really only running on 4-5 cylinders (sometimes 6 but rarely). The Injector pump packed up fully a week later. I sent the IP away to get rebuilt and got it back a few days before Christmas 2018 along with a new timing belt and tensioner. The seals in the IP were old, hard, and not working like they used to. Also spent time painting the door frames, Fitting a 3.7:1 diff, removing rust, and resealing the Jurassic Park windows. like usual I was a bit lazy with the pics. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Carsnz123 Posted April 20, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 20, 2020 The rear shocks failed a wof which was a massive ass seeing as the rear shocks are NLA and I needed them to be shorter with the slight lowering of the car. Ended up getting Vanette shocks and had a friend tig the top eyes of the old shocks onto the new ones. Also bought some lush mustard colored wool carpet and fitted out the rear with new carpet to reduce some road noise. I took it for a trip to Blenheim and back with a trailer on and wondered why the fuck it was so slow (even more than normal) turned out the front hoses were holding pressure in the brakes and causing them to drag. New set of hoses mostly solved the issue but Id say the pistons are a little sticky in the seals. I've pretty well replaced all the coolant hoses now. the first time it dumped it coolant I'd just gotten home. second time it let go just as I left home and I didn't notice until 10 min later when the tmp gauge pegged at full. I've done other things but can't remember/dont have pics. Here are some tow mission pics Skyline to the rescue when the fuel pump failed. Load was probably more than what the car weighed This was a tad iffy in the wet Using works resources to fix the Crown Then using the Skyline's weight to help run the new engine in Off to surgery 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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