More boring shit

The bolts broke in my headlight buckets, for whatever reason datsun decided to make some kind of a rivet-bolt for the buckets.

Total pain in the ass, i took the buckets to a bench grinder and got the bolts flat with the bucket

Took about 6 different sized drill bits to get the right hole size.

I ordered new bolts from http://www.mmsacc-stainless.com/ The website is hard to navigate, but they have everything you need.

Call up and ask for nancy, they will separate the "bolt kits" into pieces and sell them to you. In my case, instead of paying 115$ for the entire front end kit, and another 60 or so for the engine, I made a list of everything i needed, about 150 bolts in total for my entire front end. Grand total was 35$ shipped.

More drilling, the worst part  is my drill bit was magnetic for some fucking reason, the burrs kept getting stuck to it.

This is the part where i got pissed and skipped about 4 drill bits of progress, right to the finish shot

Got the buckets back together, replaced my headlight rins while i was at it, bolted them all together.

shit done today: Ran the entire engine harness and checked for any missing pieces, unfortunately i am missing 1 sub harness for the BCDD / fuel saver bullshit on the throttle body.

The good news is all it really does is stop fuel from being wasted on deceleration, which in turn means EXHAUST FLAME WHILE SHIFTING

Next part was the clutch master cylinder, why datsun designed it like this is beyond me, HUGE pain in the ass.

Where the pedal attaches to the master cylinder, there is a small bolt and pin. It is nearly impossible to get at because of the design, you have hardly any room to maneuver the bolt & pin into place. The process of putting the pin in took me 20 minutes.

Put the charcoal canister in, put the squirts in, ran the hoses, put the washer bottle &  motor back together, ran the wires for those.

Put replacement fusible links in, i purchased a maxi fuse block to use instead of the links, but i am not going to put it in until i know the car is running well.

Put the grill back on, fenders, lights, hood hinges, and radiator it looks like a car again