Transmission Tear Down

Although I didn't do the transmission rebuild, I learned a lot about how transmissions work. Here are some pictures I took of the transmission when it is fully apart.

Update 3-20-16 Stripping Interior

Today I have removed seats, removed old carpet, found a nickle, and have begun to removed the stock factory sound deadner. The deadner had water located in between which made the job difficult. My mentor told me to use a heat gun and a scraper to take out the sound deadner. I will begin to put the DynaMat within a week.

Update 3/17/16: Sound Deading Part 1

I will be sound deading the interior, as well as installing carpet in the upcoming weeks. I expect this to be installed very soon. The DynamMat will eliminate a lot of the excess road noise that becomes annoying after a while.

Update 3-16-16: Radiator

My current radiator seems to not work as efficient as it should. I recievd this radiator, a Champion 3 row all aluminum, to replace the current one with. The aluminum radiator is said to work over 100% more efficient than the stock copper radiator.
I will be installing this item very soon.

Engine: Degreasing/Cleaning Part I

I started to clean the engine. My dad had helped me with this part. I first started w/ a nice heavy coat of engine degreaser to remove the bigger pits of grease.

 After 3 coats of the degreaser, lots of elbow grease w/ a steel brush, I used water to wash it down and then wiped it down w/ a towel. The engine was for the most part clean, however there were some grease spots still in the corners so I used gasoline and a huge steel brush to clean it. Here are the results.

 I'm very pleased with the final results. It definitely looks a lot cleaner.

Engine: Degreasing/Cleaning

After buying the engine for quite cheap, it had been obvious that it hadn't been in use for a long time. The engine had grease pits, literally centimeters long. I wanted to clean it before swapping the engine. For reference, my mentor had told me that Gunk was the best for the bigger stuff. And for the smaller, harder to reach spots, I should use gasoline on a towel. The following pictures were before the engine was treated.

Wiring: Fuel Gauge

     I have began to re-do some of the wiring on the Datsun as it is a pile of poop. Half of the instruments on the dashboard work. The only thing that works is the speedometer gauge, although it reads 10 miles over than the actual speed.

     For reference, something that's helped a lot is this online wiring diagram that I found here. Although that wiring diagram is for a 1970+ Datsun 510 w/ manual transmission, it should be very similar to mine. Picture of wiring diagram below.

     So far what I've done w/ the wiring is getting my fuel gauge to work! It was really important to get that to work since I want to know how much gasoline I had left. It was really easy to identify the problem after looking at the wiring diagram. On the diagram, there's a yellow cable that goes from the gas tank unit down towards a wiring harness where other cables are connected, then to the instrument cluster. The previous owner had wired the fuel gauge wire to the heater, and after a while it had melted and blew a fuse! There was no insulation between the fuel gauge wire, and other wires(see below).

I had then cut the yellow wire to a specific length and crimped new wire in between both ends.

After crimping the wires together, I had then reconnected the fuel gauge wire from the heater, to the other identical harness. Although they looked similar, they weren't. After turning the key to the ignition, nothing happened. I thought that the fuel gauge was broken. I actually found out that the car must be on for the fuel gauge to display. Now I have a working fuel gauge!