Checking on my vin 740 shows the same apparently un-used black wire…… Looks clean as a whistle inside the protective sleeve….

Like the above mentioned previous picture Was folded for extended time …..

3 hours ago, motorman7 said:

Brake spring installation Rev 2.0.

Much better. One follow up question though... Are there metal washers between the hold down springs and the shoes? I can't tell for sure from the pics, but I just want to make sure the springs are not riding directly on the shoes.

Here's mine. A little embarrassing to post after your clean and shiny stuff, but it's what I got. They'll work fine, but aren't as pretty.

You can see the washers under the springs:

Brake shoe hold down retainer spring pics

Edited June 3Jun 3 by motorman7

12 hours ago, motorman7 said:

Brake shoe hold down retainer spring pics

Perfect. I just couldn't see the bottom washers in the other pics. Looks great.

It's always a mistake to paint/powder coat those rear stub axle brake drum flanges, Nissan didn't.

Wow, great story. Keep us in your loop

One thing I noticed in particular - the dash. No cracks. Aftermarket replacement?

15 hours ago, Richard McDonel said:

Wow, great story. Keep us in your loop

One thing I noticed in particular - the dash. No cracks. Aftermarket replacement?

Thanks for the prompt. I have been meaning to update the thread here but seem to have gotten side-tracked.

The metal work has been completed on the body and it is now at the body shop. It has been there for about 3 weeks now and work on the underside has already been started. Carlos said the underside should be finished by the end of this week. He estimates that the body work and paint will be complete sometime in December. Would be nice to get this back before Christmas.

There was quite a bit of metal work to do as you can see from the pictures below. The battery area was pretty bad as usual, as well as the floors. There were a number of smaller areas that were rusted through, and Larry did a good job filling and/or patching those. I wanted to make sure everything was very structurally sound and that all hidden rust areas were addressed. That being said, I am glad that part of the job has been completed. It is nice to see the body work started. The underside is looking better already.

Carlos (the bodyshop/paint guy) stopped by my place and took a number of pictures of 2614 to see how the frame rails and other welded on parts were finished i.e no seam sealer. He also brought a paint camera and took pictures of the car color inside the door jam for color reference. I told him the color was the 920 Safari Gold per Nissan. I asked him to let me know how the colors line up. With 55 years of age, I am curious if the color on 2614 has darkened or developed a patina over time. Carlos has his own mixing set-up so he said that he will set me up with color samples prior to paint.

In the mean time, I have been accumulating parts but not much else other than inspecting the body progress on a bi-weekly basis. However, now that my summer projects are nearly complete, I will get back to work on 0042.

Oh, and regarding the dash, it is the original and has one small crack right in the center. There is a local dash repair shop that I will have look at it to see if it can be reparied.