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Re: 1973 Datsun 620 Pickup
oh man, you are bringing back some wicked fun memories. in the early 90's I had a 77 king cab L20B 5 speed. I got it from the original owner with a documented 285,000 miles. original ball joints and tie rods. it took a beating and came back for more.
the only drawback was the tranny. it went south after I pulled an 18' car trailer with 2 Gehl 5625 skid steers for about 50 miles. so I swapped in some car tranny with reverse either above or below 1st. that was handy for rocking free in snow-sand-mud. speaking of mud I gave it a "Lincoln Locker" and some real meaty tires and showed up some big 4wd truck guys (awesome times)
then one day the fuel pump gave out so I installed a used electric one. I suppose the Methanol racing fuel had something to do with it's failure. 4 days later it died while slowly pulling out of a friend's driveway. restarted and ran like crap for 10 seconds. wouldn't start again after that. teardown revealed the exhaust valve seats dropped and broke apart destroying EVERYTHING. darn, it only had 321,000 miles on it.
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