Coming along

Bag is to protect the wiper mechanism from water

 

Not that I can see. So far no filler or welding found. A little bit of rust inside the wings. I’ll probably get them and the engine bay blasted.

 

Looks like a good un.

 

Rubber bag ? That is to keep the wiper motor inside nice and dry.

 

Makes sense!

I’ve emptied the rest on the engine bay to get the blaster to blow away the bad, leaving the good.

 

The wings and the light housings have also come back from blasting and had a later of primer added.

 

I'd recolour what you have (if serviceable) - they are as brittle as hell though) ask me how I know) and break at the slightest force. But can be repaired easily enough.

 

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i don’t think I have a single complete panel. I don’t mean just broken, I mean broken with bits missing. It would be impossible to rebuild them. So far I have a good set of door cards, but I need the rest.

 

Ah, no more discussion to be had then on that score ... I hope you have luck in getting new ones for a reasonable ££££

 

Mrs Wrench is 6 weeks away from our first child so I’ve been on full time Ikea duty.

Mostly been stripping off more of the car to get it to the blasters...

 

Managed to escape to the garage today to disassemble the front axel and do more on the wing repairs.

 

Good pics again Robert - keep 'em coming

 

Great pics Robert, I am very happy to hear that she is a good solid body. Happy that I did not miss any big rust demons hiding on the car.
Great work!

 

Thanks for the encouragement. Im now forming the shopping list and firstly its obvious I need a new bushes set.

As I am quite lazy sometimes, I prefer to buy a complete set, and have found this one on ebay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Datsun-2...673409?hash=item41aea13001:g:eQkAAOSwGotWjwzP

Getting one in the UK is about £100 more, unless anyone has an alternative resource?

 

I've read it's worth going for the OEM bushings as they actually perform really well - these ones are apparently quite stiff? Anyone have experience with that?