Popular Post fletch Posted January 27 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 27 Had a bit of a dismantle under the dash today. Need to fit the correct clutch pedal and bracket and also swap around the brake pedal from the (poorly) cut down auto one I was running. Ended up pulling the column as I'm old and inflexible. How the fuck did I get up and under here when I first had this car ill never know. Also got a new rubber boot for the column to keep the engine bay fumes out. A long time ago just before either parked it up to go overseas, the speedo stopped working. I always thought it was the dodgy speedo drive I modified. Turns out it was the cable New one on order. 3 weeks from Japan. Will give me an excuse to tidy up under the dash properly. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 12 hours ago, fletch said: A long time ago just before either parked it up to go overseas, the speedo stopped working. I always thought it was the dodgy speedo drive I modified. Turns out it was the cable Spend too much time wound off the end of the speedo? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 5 hours ago, RUNAMUCK said: Spend too much time wound off the end of the speedo? It goes past 180 and keeps going to the zero stop. Maybe that one time I went to Mexico and spent some time there, it loaded up the cable too much. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 Spent the last few nights in the shed on the premise of getting a datsun ready to go to nats, but got a bit sidetracked on this. Speedo fixed Then I removed the driveshaft to swap for the less 2nd hand one I have in stock. While I was in there I noticed the rear diff cover had been leaking and was covered in shit and thought I better do something about it now rather than later when it runs out of oil. I whipped the back cover off and spent hours with a Stanley blade shaving the original paper gasket that had set like rock. The drain plug magnet was broken into a few bits so that got replaced with a donor from a smashed gearbox. Then I needed to replace the centre bearing on the driveshaft. It's a cnut of a job. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fletch Posted March 5 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 5 I ground a chunk of steel to hammer into the nut to free it up Then had to cut all of the rubber off the old hanger and press the bearing off. The new one should have gone straight on and I blindly slapped it on with the F facing the front. However, the F is supposed to face the back and the price was jammed on. It took a hour to get it off without fucking it. Fortunately the new bearing came with a new nut as that was fucked too. Haha. Reinstalled the driveshaft and also a trigger wheel to get driveshaft speed for the ecu and 4wd controller I am going to run. 20 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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