1975 Datsun 620 Pickup - added to the fleet...

[Datsun.David]

Well, I pulled a "Pebbles" today - and another old Datsun followed me home...

This time, it is a 1975 620 Long Box pickup with 85k original miles. Kelly Green (think Shamrock) with a tan interior. A little bit of rust, but an original owner truck and under hood, no kidding looks new. It is from an estate sale and hasn't been driven since 2007 - so I don't even know that it runs - but it is a Datsun, so I am picking it up on Saturday - taking a battery, a plate and 5 gallons of gas... What could possibly go wrong?

I will have pics later... In the meantime, does anybody have a line on a driver side fender for a 1975 Datsun 620 pickup? I might finally have to get around to introducing myself over on Ratsun...

L20B, Longbox, Automatic...

[notoptoy]

Make sure to post pictures here!

[RBMann]

Well, I pulled a "Pebbles" today - and another old Datsun followed me home...

This time, it is a 1975 620 Long Box pickup with 85k original miles. Kelly Green (think Shamrock) with a tan interior. A little bit of rust, but an original owner truck and under hood, no kidding looks new. It is from an estate sale and hasn't been driven since 2007 - so I don't even know that it runs - but it is a Datsun, so I am picking it up on Saturday - taking a battery, a plate and 5 gallons of gas... What could possibly go wrong?

I will have pics later... In the meantime, does anybody have a line on a driver side fender for a 1975 Datsun 620 pickup? I might finally have to get around to introducing myself over on Ratsun...

L20B, Longbox, Automatic...

A long time ago I inherited a 76 long bed from my father in the same color combo. We have always referred to them as M&M colors. Some one had messed with the torsion bars and right side sat 1.5" higher than the left. Just to make things more fun they installed both leading brake shoes on one side and then both trailing shoes on the other. At speed if you jumped on the brakes hard it would really head for the ditch. Bombproof, sold it at 200K miles.

Good luck.

[Datsun.David]

Definitively M&M green. This one hasn't moved in awhile, but stored in a heated garage, so hopefully she isn't too reluctant to come back to life. I am trying to line up a wingman to follow me home for the maiden voyage...

dw

[Gregs672000]

Learned everything automotive on my '73 620 1600, later an 1800, then L20b... added an MSD, cam, SUs, 200sx dogleg 5 speed, lowered, custom wheels etc etc. Drove the crap out of that beastie and she never failed me. It was Desert Gold, or as my friends referred to as Baby-shit brown. I thought it looked great with the black accents, and a really cool black canopy. The weakest link was the 4wheel drum brakes... really really bad when soaked in a deep mud puddle...
NEVER should have sold it.

[Datsun.David]

Well...
We made it home. 96% under our own power...
She runs great at idle, but I am sure the fuel system is full of gunk because she wouldn't open up at all and was back firing like hell on the way home...
Under the hood is all original with a TONNE of smog stuff that I won't even pretend to try and understand...

Now, the question becomes - what do we do with her? There is a little more rust than I had originally thought, but not terminal by any stretch (at least not by Canadian standards!) The interior is beautiful - the dash looks near new with only a couple hair line cracks. Floor mats are perfect, console really nice, ashtray clean as a whistle. Underhood is equally impressive with barely a hint of grime. I need to spend a day sorting out some basics - pulling plugs, cleaning carb, replacing fuel filter... etc.

Overall, a good deal! (I forgot to take a picture of the drivers side fender - the weakest point of the car - held together with duct tape and masking tape...)

dw

[pebbles]

Hey Dave, you could sell the 4.11 diff and have a free truck!!
Just drop in a 4.37 from a 521. Or even a 3.89 from a roadster and have a freeway flyer!
Wow i love it! Looks like my old auto goon!
Drop it 2" and throw some titans on it

[Datsun.David]

Pebbles...

Lead the way! Lead the way!
Tell me what I need to do! Rims off a Titan? I thought I saw that on Ratsun... Hmmm... I wonder if my rims off my Toyota firetruck would fit... they are already Red...

4.11 diff to go into my 69 maybe? Does that make sense? I am sure it is running stock right now. And the 2" drop with the torsion bars out front? Blocks out back?

Ross is already trying to hook me up with a 5 spd... and there was a pedal set on ebay... and I was reading up on a Lynx crossflow single DCOE manifold... (But I have a spare Solex 44 in my tickle trunk...)
Do you think it makes sense to yank everything from the intake manifold over? That would sort of instantly "de-smog" it... I am pretty sure some backfire preventer or something was jamming me up when we were trying to start her...(three minor backfire induced fires in the air filter.)

I will say, the 3 speed automatic performed flawlessly on the way home...

dw

[pebbles]

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Torsion bars and blocks!

[Gregs672000]

Ya, the torsion bars are easy to lower, just crank them down. I had 2" blocks in the back. I'm not a big fan of single DCOE carb manifolds, as I hear/read they just don't work well. A Weber DGV down draft is common and a good set up, or check with some JDM importing places for a set of SUs (I got 3 sets 30yrs ago... nobody wanted them). Bad gas too maybe? Not sure on desmog... don't recall that my '73 had much on it. NISMO made a faster advancing single point dizzy which I ran too. The dual points were for smog (not sure what that did). The MSD helped some... I have a Jacobs Pro Street I would sell, maybe even give, that will blow any of those spark boxes away, but I don't need it anymore...

[Datsun.David]

Thanks for the insights Greg... I am going to work through things a little methodically. I drained the tank and took out 5 gallons of gas that had definitely had better days... smelled more like lacquer thinner than gas...

The top priority will be getting the fuel system sorted as I have a good consistent spark when it does run and seems mainly to bog under load... I haven't even had the air cleaner assembly off yet so I don't know what the carb even looks like... (The air cleaner, distributor, plugs, coil, etc. were all changed 6 miles ago... in 2007 - per the sticker on the window!

[redroadster]

Yeah thats a sweeet one for the years
I had a tan 620 5gear drove it til it was fred flinstone mobile ( big hole in the drivers floor )
just put a stiff floor mat down right

[Gregs672000]

I bet she runs just fine with good gas and some carb cleaner!

[GeoffM]

Great looking truck! I was in Calgary yesterday just for the day...wish I would have had time to contact you and come by and drool over it.
I had a 521 L16 back in the day and remember dropping the front end with the torsion bar adjustment bolts. That poor truck was a victim of my teenage shenanigans. Rolled it on its side, cut the box off because flatdeck! (which never happened). etc etc.