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I did some more work, I removed most of the remaining interior including the roof lining, dash and heater parts. I starting labelling the wiring loom and connectors to make the job much easier when it comes time to reassemble.

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I also had some new seals for the doors arrive

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and a blanking button for the cigarette lighter

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Had some parts come back from powder coating also, the bumper supports and the bonnet latch support

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So to recap I bought the grill on Yahoo Japan, from the pictures I could tell it was rusty but thought I could simply dip it, repair and then refinish it. When it arrived it had a lot more rust than I'd bargained for!

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As you can see the base and supporting brackets are pretty much dust.

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I drilled out the old alloy rivets and disassembled the grill. The mesh and surround are actually stainless so I had this dipped and linished ready for paint. 

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So quite a few parts were well beyond saving. I send the top section away to be dipped and zinc plated with some other stuff. It came back with quite a few small holes where the rust had taken it's toll. I filled these with lead and then rubbed the surface back flush ready for filling. 

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I had the lower section and brackets remade by a local custom body shop. He did a great job!

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I'll rubb back parts including the plastic ends and prep them ready for priming then reassemble ready for paint. Some people are probably wondering why I bothered with this grill instead of buying a fibreglass replica, I just prefer to use as many original parts as possible and enjoy resting these old and broken parts.

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13 minutes ago, Adzmax said:
Some people are probably wondering why I bothered with this grill instead of buying a fibreglass replica, I just prefer to use as many original parts as possible and enjoy resting these old and broken parts.
 

I dig that. As OEM parts become harder to find, repairing over replacing is such a good alternative. Well done, you're saving parts from the scrap heap. :thumbsup:

3 minutes ago, Adzmax said:

I'm trying to track down photos over 3 laptops, 4 phones and 8 years, it takes time, hahahaha. Amazing how one or two photos go missing.:)

Ok, I'll let you off. I'll watch the cricket instead.

BTW - I'm happy you're using the SAU image hosting. It ensures that the images will be around as long as the site is (At least another 30 years).

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11 minutes ago, PranK said:

Ok, I'll let you off. I'll watch the cricket instead.

BTW - I'm happy you're using the SAU image hosting. It ensures that the images will be around as long as the site is (At least another 30 years).

This time I'm ONLY using SAU hosting. I don't want to have to do this again. ;) 

I pulled the old wiper motor off my car to clean up. Seems someone decided that spraying it black with a spray pack was a good idea...

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One thing I do like about the old 70's stuff is it's serviceable meaning it can be pulled apart and put back together. I sent the alloy body away to be hydroblasted, the metal away for zinc plating and I cleaned up some of the screws.

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A word of advice if you're looking to do the same, the rivets used to hold the bearing in the end of the rotor housing are alloy. When the housing was pickled before plating they dissolved and the bearing assembly fell out. Luckily the strong magnet it the housing held the parts in so they were not lost. If I did this again, I'd drill them out prior to plating. The bearing was slightly melted and had to be ground out so the rotor would run smooth then I pop riveted the internals back in.

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I had to drill out the alloy rivets used to hold the plug in place too, I replaced them with some M3x15 screws with nylon nuts and a pop rivet which worked well and the finished product came up really well. 

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I also picked up a tool kit from which I cleaned up

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Got the boot and bonnet latches back from plating too.

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The original Nissan/Datsun steering wheels have a nasty habit of rusting, much like the rest of the cars.

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Rather than having to deal with this again I decided to rub the wheel back and spray it silver.

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I then sent the wheel off to be trimmed like the GTR and fitted the refurbished GTR horn pad. It looks amazing! 

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OMG that steering wheel might be my fave part so far.

BTW, this is because of you;

"You are only allowed to give 20 likes per day. You cannot give any more likes today."

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Rather than buying new horns I thought I'd strip down and clean up the originals.

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I had the cast rears water blasted and rust treated because it was going to be to tricky to remove the internals for dipping. The came up nice though, it was probably the best choice in the end. The gaskets were totally stuffed so I bought some gasket paper and remade them also.
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I reassembled then tuned them, they are loud! My hearing was a bit NQR after that haha.
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Also got the bonnet stand prop rod back.
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I spotted some beautiful velocity stacks on Sudou-san’s Hakosuka from Garage Saurus Suro-R at the Nostalgic 2 Day event recently. As soon as I saw them I had to have a set :D

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I these made in Japan by Technical Garage Sasaki to suit Solex/Mikuni 44's. They are 80mm flared velocity stacks in titanium with heat treated tips. I removed the old studs from the carbs and fixed them with matching titanium hex head bolts, not sure if I'll keep the titanium fittings yet. I also had the fuel feeds re-plated and the brass studs on the manifold hyroblasted as they were not looking the part. Now I'm only waiting on the linkages to come back and they are complete.

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