Datsun 180b saloon 810 YPK (Read 6,751 times)

[gainsb1]

Nov 24, 2012 23:37:18 GMT 1 Al Ramone said:

yeh messy old job but well worth doing.

i was under my laurel the last few days and realised i need to clean up and paint the underside of that....

So, Al, what's happening to the recently acquired A10 sss? Piccies? New thread?

Leigh (Area rep)

[Ricky180B]

Quick update, members from west London Preet and Sandy sourced a SSS dash, so I'm starting to fit that. As mines the early 810 it doesn't have the warning lights so I'm going to start the task of that and at the same time will run all the wires for the audio set up I have planned for this project. I'm just waiting for th delivery of the speedo and rev counter. Once that's arrived and all the wiring is done I will spray the dash black and fix up a few cracks

[Al Ramone]

like it

[datsfun]

Dash Looks Hawt ...and will be amazing once done as discussed

Glad to be of help, AWOL to rescue

[sss310]

No worries, dash looks good .... glad it came into use for the right car.

[Ricky180B]

Just a quick update both driver side door finally finished







Getting fed up with bodywork

[Al Ramone]

it's a long old process isn't it?

doing this for a living and trying to convey how much work/time and therefore money it takes to do a job properly to customers is frustrating.

shows like that awful Classic Car Rescue "restoring" a car in a week just makes it even worse.

anyways. well done for sticking with it.
my next daily datsun wont be done anywhere near as well as this.

[Ricky180B]

Thanks Al, right so the back panel was very rotten. It seemed that the car did not have the boot seal for quite some time allowing the water to travel around and cause all the rot. I did repair around the rear light but then looking at the top lip were the seal should sit was very bad and a lot of work to sort out Best option was to replace the panel which would be the best option for long term. So went to visit Will who supplied me the panel and a few other bits. A friend of mine came down as I cannot weld and work began.

[Al Ramone]

that looked easy ;D

make sure you get some good paint on it.
not sure how good the proper nissan panels are, but when fitting new panels i normally strip off all the black paint and start from scratch.
the black paint is usally just a transport/storage coat and i have found surface rust underneath it.

[Ricky180B]

Yes it has very little surface rust so will scotch pad sand it down to metal like I did with the new door I had from Will then go over with some 2k

[Ricky180B]

So this weekend good luck and bad, I had the SSS dash but no cluster, so Will managed to find me SSS cluster without rev counter but a rev counter for the saloon. Started some mods and was well chuffed after a few hours I managed to get it modified and fit. Very tricky and very fragile job. If I could not get this done then I would of had to put the original dash in as the rev counters are like gold dust. So then I began to spray the cluster as it had some scratches and my little one came long and knocked it to the floor cracking the rev counter in half.ooooohhh mmmmmy god. So Ive got my cluster but the rev counter has a crack but i suppose I will live with it to have the SSS dash.

[Al Ramone]

looks good.
i wonder if the needle should be inline with the zero on the rev counter?

[Ricky180B]

I did notice that but it sets back down to that position when u move it, only way to find out will be once its actually working

[Al Ramone]

when you gonna fire it up?

[Ricky180B]

I've got another dash coming to me on the 20th. The reason for this is because the dash I have now is the late SSS the one with the warning lights. To my amazement they did an earlier SSS dash without the warning lights which is perfect for this 810 as it also is the early model without the warning lights so no messing round. I was very lucky to be contacted Byblos guy called Neil who is supplying this dash to me and its Also in black. I was shocked when he told me what he had and even more shocked it was without the warning lights. Just got to wire up the rev counter I think to the coil and few other bits then also the ice wiring will be one at the same time.