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I need to come up and see this.
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Nissan 1964 Nissan Patrol soft top frame off restoration
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Anytime. The 64 is in a shop down by Alpine, I work on it down there. At least for the next month or so. Then it will be coming up here to my shop for the final assembly and testing of the truck.
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Awsome! If you do aquire that, where are you going to mount that little blue shovel?
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haha, there is a mount for it by the tire carrier, see it? 
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So stock side steps are an important part of this build. We had a set of originals, pretty hard to come by and I have only ever seen one or two sets not totally trashed. We used this stock set to fabricate new side steps. The stock mounting brackets were salvaged and saved. A lot of repair work getting them straight but they were savable. The tops were completely fabricated and look exactly like stock. The rear step was also made, retaining the stock mounting brackets. I don't any pics of that right now though.
I took the steps to a place with big enough machinery to press these out. The side step tops in the foreground were made from 5-pieces, all tig welded.
Once that was done we could finish the details on them. The body guy fabricated the band you see around the step. Original steps had this band so we felt it was important to replicate it.
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I took the steps to a place with big enough machinery to press these out. The side step tops in the foreground were made from 5-pieces, all tig welded.
Once that was done we could finish the details on them. The body guy fabricated the band you see around the step. Original steps had this band so we felt it was important to replicate it.
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I hear that! They are so hard to come by for this very reason. They are more stout than originals though. Original was made from 18g, these are made from 16g. Unfortunately for me, I will only get to drive this truck for test purposes. I also seriously doubt the owner will ever do much more than gravel roads in it. But who knows!?
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More pics. Rear step.
I went and applied Rust Bullet to every seam on the firewall, tub, soft top frame and rad support. I had already previously applied it to the doors, front and rear. The point of doing this is the panels are welded together from the factory. There is corrosion between these panels no doubt about it. Nissan did not seam seal these seams, at least not on the early Patrols. To kill any rust or corrosion and seal it up I applied the Rust Bullet to all seams. I used a brush and forced the Rust Bullet into the seams. Now I am sanding it all back, the final prep before priming the body and endless hand sanding for the body guy.
Many other body parts are prepped and ready for primer. As far as body work, this is the final stages before paint. Keep in mind these are 50yrs old panels that have been restored!
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I went and applied Rust Bullet to every seam on the firewall, tub, soft top frame and rad support. I had already previously applied it to the doors, front and rear. The point of doing this is the panels are welded together from the factory. There is corrosion between these panels no doubt about it. Nissan did not seam seal these seams, at least not on the early Patrols. To kill any rust or corrosion and seal it up I applied the Rust Bullet to all seams. I used a brush and forced the Rust Bullet into the seams. Now I am sanding it all back, the final prep before priming the body and endless hand sanding for the body guy.
Many other body parts are prepped and ready for primer. As far as body work, this is the final stages before paint. Keep in mind these are 50yrs old panels that have been restored!
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Radiator prepp'ed for paint.
Some body pieces in primer
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Some body pieces in primer
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Nice work I.. gotta love that feeling you get when then primer is down. Sense of accomplishment is overwhelming. Then the paint goes down and INSTANT PAT ON THE BACK..
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Wiper motors tested, torn down, cleaned and prepared for re-furbish. These are specific to 1965 or earlier trucks. I have 5 of them, all work but one and the bad one just needs a wire soldered to work. The two best will be used.
This 1964 Patrol has the optional dual horns. The primary horn is called the "high" tone horn while the 2nd optional one is called the low tone horn. I tested both, the high worked but the low did not. So I tore down the low horn.
During tear down a screw busted off. So I had to drill and tap it for a new screw, 6-32 was the smallest size I could find. You can see the busted screw in the top left of this picture.
low horn on the left and high on the right.
the contacts in the horn.
On the low horn the contacts were dirty so I cleaned them.
I re-assembled the horn and it now works good!
A very nice set of head light buckets have been prepp'ed for resto. The buckets on the left get painted grey, the parts on the right get plated with zinc/yellow chromate.
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This 1964 Patrol has the optional dual horns. The primary horn is called the "high" tone horn while the 2nd optional one is called the low tone horn. I tested both, the high worked but the low did not. So I tore down the low horn.
During tear down a screw busted off. So I had to drill and tap it for a new screw, 6-32 was the smallest size I could find. You can see the busted screw in the top left of this picture.
low horn on the left and high on the right.
the contacts in the horn.
On the low horn the contacts were dirty so I cleaned them.
I re-assembled the horn and it now works good!
A very nice set of head light buckets have been prepp'ed for resto. The buckets on the left get painted grey, the parts on the right get plated with zinc/yellow chromate.
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1964 & 1977 steering column seal, complete different and not interchangeable.
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Nearly to the end of a sage that is the hardware for this truck! I believe I went off about it before in the thread, it was scattered, it was scavenged and it is now compiled and nearly restored! Once it was decided to retain as much as possible of the original hardware on the body of the truck this became a mission. Not only did I have to figure out approx how much was needed since the truck was torn down 10yrs ago and I have no sample trucks around, I also had to go through it all once compiled. Pick out the crap hardware or not original. Separate it all and catalog. Then go through it all and clean up with a bastard file and some 120grit to remove tool marks and knurling on heads. Oh ya and this was after de-greasing and glass bead blasting. To finalize the resto on all this stuff it is being sent off to be zinc and zinc with yellow chromate plated.
This is why we feel the need to use this stuff. You can clearly see it is specific to the Patrol. Most your trucks or Japanese trucks are going to have this style of body hardware with a "brand" stamp or some kind of identification on the head. A lot of Japanese hardware is also a depressed head, I assume to shave steel quantities as well as weight.
non-depressed head type
original hardware, before and after resto
rare NOS hardware on the left and restored on the right, less new zinc plating
an assembly of hardware for the front doors, all cleaned up
original fuel line hardware, these will be put on new fuel line after plating
starter and generator hardware to be zinc plated
Warn f/w hub hardware getting zinc
Here is front fender to rad support gaskets. These are after resto with winter green and lot's of hand cleaning. They looked as bad if not worse than the one up top before resto. 50yr old rubber!
These are headlight gaskets, again 50yr old rubber after I restored it.
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This is why we feel the need to use this stuff. You can clearly see it is specific to the Patrol. Most your trucks or Japanese trucks are going to have this style of body hardware with a "brand" stamp or some kind of identification on the head. A lot of Japanese hardware is also a depressed head, I assume to shave steel quantities as well as weight.
non-depressed head type
original hardware, before and after resto
rare NOS hardware on the left and restored on the right, less new zinc plating
an assembly of hardware for the front doors, all cleaned up
original fuel line hardware, these will be put on new fuel line after plating
starter and generator hardware to be zinc plated
Warn f/w hub hardware getting zinc
Here is front fender to rad support gaskets. These are after resto with winter green and lot's of hand cleaning. They looked as bad if not worse than the one up top before resto. 50yr old rubber!
These are headlight gaskets, again 50yr old rubber after I restored it.
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Everything looks great and I hope you are getting paid by the hour. That's a lot of work.
That's a lot of work.
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Everything looks great and I hope you are getting paid by the hour.
Ya, I do get paid by the hour but it is a fairly low rate! I wouldn't want to do a resto on a bid.
Took me 10hrs last Sunday to go through all the hardware and items to be plated. Cleaning up heads with the file and sand paper took the longest. Had to be done though!
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I need to get up there and see this beauty. Great work I..
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Wow, that wagon is awesome. I love patrols. <3
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Just did a 23hr. road trip to Glenwood Springs, CO and back for this.....
Ya that is original mileage on this Patrol! It has always been in Glenwood Springs, until now!
It also came with the 66 hard top you see in the back ground. That truck is to serve as our parts truck for the resto on the 67 Patrol Wagon.
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Ya that is original mileage on this Patrol! It has always been in Glenwood Springs, until now!
It also came with the 66 hard top you see in the back ground. That truck is to serve as our parts truck for the resto on the 67 Patrol Wagon.
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