Frame rail and floor replacement part 3 + engine

Duplicolor rubberized coating is shit, do not buy.













However, rubberized liquid roofing tar fixed it.

I left part of it unpainted because it needs a patch welded there (near headlight bucket)

New frame rails are in, the angel iron piece is for strength, the floors needed it badly because i don't have form fitting replacements with the proper strength bends in them.


You probably cant tell, but before i started to apply the tar, i went around every seam with Permatex RTV adhesive sealant

Other side with fiberglass infused roofing tar applied, this stuff comes out of the can like cake frosting, it was actually kind of fun to put on, but you get VERY DIRTY


This stuff will dry rock hard.

Front driver side

Cant really tell here, but i painted the inner frame rails with more tar.

More tar on the inside













This entire process took about 3.5 hours, i was going slow and taking my time.

Put the wheels on it

Love at first sight












I did almost all of this part by myself, since nobody was home.

By odd chance my dad stopped by with one of his old vet friends from the american legion, they needed tent poles.

They helped me maneuver it in place long enough for me to get the bolts in and left.

The hardest part was putting the transmission cross member in, it took me literally 2 hours to get it to line up right, it has rubber bushings with a metal sleeve inside.

The bar is an extremely tight fit inside the trans tunnel so that did not help AT ALL

After many arguments with the jack, and alot of coercing with a hammer i got it in place and bolted together.

Funny part of the day,

Even though the engine has been in my dads garage for a month now, And even after he helped me place the engine on the mounts. For some reason never took a look at the valve cover. "Why the hell are you putting a nissan engine in a datsun"

I nearly died, i had to explain to him that back then nissan didnt want a japanese sounding name for the american public so they chose "datsun" until sales picked up.

It looks like its sitting pretty high up, but the fenders have been cut for fender flares.