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THE RESTORATION OF CAR #304

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26 minutes ago, grannyknot said:

Okay, so it was the usual hard work then,  I'm always looking for that miracle product that will take care of aluminum in one step.

Nice to see that repair done properly with a Timesert,  you guys are doing great work.

Vapour blast is the only way.

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What did you do to refresh the starter internals? That one armature looks pretty rough

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It was actually pretty simple. The bushings were still in good shape. I had a donor starter that I got the armature out of and the brushes in that starter were in good shape. So I just cleaned everything up and reassembled with the replacement parts.

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Finally getting back to working on car #304.  Have several projects going.  Got the brake lines cleaned up and ready to send out for plating.  Here's a couple of photos.

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Have a question for anyone who might know.  Was getting ready to rebuild the calipers and noticed that car 304 calipers were blank.  They had no casting marks like you see most calipers like in picture # 0275 below.  Does anyone know if the blank calipers are correct for this car?

Thanks,

Rod

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Just for fun here's a picture of the 1st shipment of parts from Nissan.

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On 4/28/2019 at 6:52 PM, Rod's Garage said:

Have a question for anyone who might know.  Was getting ready to rebuild the calipers and noticed that car 304 calipers were blank.  They had no casting marks like you see most calipers like in picture # 0275 below.  Does anyone know if the blank calipers are correct for this car?

Thanks,

Rod

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Does anyone have thoughts on this?

Here are calipers in FSM that was photographed probably summer of 1969:

Sumitomo on the casting.

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Just joined today and wanted to say thanks for this thread. The work thus far looks outstanding, and I'm really appreciative you are taking the time to let us follow along.

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