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Datsun 240Z Restoration - Rear Axle (Part 7)
In this video I'm fully restoring the complete rear axle, except the differential. I took the full assembly off the car in the teardown in episode 1. At first it looked like a quick and easy job, but after seeing all the parts after disassembly I knew this might take a little longer. I decided to go with a classic finish and paint them all in matt black. Almost all parts made of steel have been yellow zinc plated by a local company. This is a very good rust protection. On top of that Mister Patina powder coated the parts, this is a double protection and these parts should never ever rust again.
I'm also installing adjustable coilovers by KW in the rear. These came with the classic KW colors yellow and purple. This color scheme looks really cool, but it doesn't fit so well with the classic car. Luckily they also offer these parts in black with their so called „Classic Line“.
The rear sway bar was an aftermarket one. Its links were put together by a bunch of pieces. I decided to remake them in the same style as the original ones in the front. Doing that I was able to reuse the jig I made for the front axle for bending the special washers and also making the nylon lock nuts.
The drums from the brake looked really bad at first. A broken fin and damage on almost all edges. With a bit of TIG welding from my friend material was quickly added back and brought back to shape with some hand files. New brake shoes, brake cylinder and new springs and the rear brake is in perfect condition again. You may ask why I haven't done a disc conversion. Simply because the original brakes are quite good if adjusted well and since I'm keeping the engine pretty much stock, better brakes are not really needed. I also really like the look of the drum brakes.
The half-shafts were a little project on their own. The two sliding pieces were not zinc plated, because the plating would change the tolerances of the inside and may cause problems.
In this video I restored everything except the differential. This and the complete reassembly of the rear axle back to the car will come in episode 8 next week.
I also want to say a huge thanks to DCW Classic from Lithuania. He's such an immense help with this project. His huge experience and knowledge is very helpful. I also want to say thanks to Mister patina for the powder coating, KW Suspension for the nice coilovers and the black springs.
I hope you like my work and enjoy the video.
Huge thank you to all of my Patreon supporters and especially to:
Aaron White
Adel AlSaffar
August Kupfer
Ben Burns
Bill Baith
Sigoss Family
Bold Cheddar
Brenna Redpath
Chris Ulivarri
Clint Fisher
Dane Prince
Edward Conway
John Shebanow
Joseph Kamps
Josh Ledford
Joshua Scher
Kar
Keith McComb
Kerem Yollu
Kyle O'Keefe
Lambda GPU Workstations
Marcus H.
Mark Tesmer
Michael Fleisher
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NoLoneSurvivor
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R.A.
ReddDirt
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Stefano Di Biase
Stuart
Tyler Carruth
Vickie Bligh
Vince Valenti
Yale Baker
Albert Siemers
Alex Manning
Andre
Andrey
Anthony Apellido
Anton Pchelkin
Arni Bjorgvinsson
Ben Humphrey
Ben Simmonds
Benny
Bonnie Williamson
Brian Hoerl
Caleb Betczynski
Chad Bryant
Charles D
Chris Faehl
Chris Visscher
Chris Walter
Christian Fjelldal
Christopher Lobay
Crystal Cash
Cyril
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
Daniel Varga
Dave Hardware
David Lehnus
David P Hruska
David Thompson
Derson Jacomini
Dustin Davis
Eddie
Erik Nordby
Ethan Mc
Gareth Rimmer
H D
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Jack Curry
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James Hare
Jesus Fernandez Cortes
Joseph Coates
Justin Miller
Kiro Ivanovski
L0XIS
Laurent Bolli
Lil' Brummbino
Marc Cerisier
Mary Casella
Matteo Capo
Matthew Johnson
MDC
Michał Święcki
Mihai
Norbert Spaar
Oleksandr
Pat Nakajima
Raoul Kriesi
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Roan Fryer
Robert Landrum
Rupert Purcat
Sam
Sarah B.
Scott Brooks
Scott Marshall
Sean Sands
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Stanley Dimant
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Thanny
Tim Holt
Timofey Lychik
Trevor Kam
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Sorry for my bad english, it's not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english.
Thank you for watching 🙂
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1917 Swiss Bead Roller Restoration - Making New Ones for a Masterpiece
Before watching this video, I highly recommend watching this one first: https://youtu.be/zBIqITpCV9U
In this video I'm restoring an antique bead roller made in Switzerland around 1917. A subscriber from Switzerland sent me this one. It was an old machine in their company, which they would otherwise threw onto the steel waste for recycling.
I started this restoration pretty much exactly two years ago. Back then I knew I need a bead roller for the car restoration, so this would be the perfect item. After being 15 days into this restoration I had to put it aside and started working on the car. I could not finish this project in time, so it was sitting on my shelf for around 1.5 years. After I finished the front axle restoration it was time to finally finish the bead roller.
I've spent another 21 days to finish it, so 36 days in total. There were so many parts to machine to get this bead roller back to perfectly working condition. I restored all the original pieces that were left and replaced all the not original ones. I tried my best to design replacement parts that will match an over 100 years old design. I'm pretty happy with the overall appearance. There were so many changes done to it: hexagon clamping screws changed to slotted domed head ones, thumb screw for clamping the dead stop and adjuster lever, completely new handle for the depth adjuster, completely new crank built from scratch and longer shafts to extend the throat. All guided sections for the shafts have been freshly machined and new sleeves have been installed where necessary. I decided to keep a structured surface on the body and only knock off the highest casting marks and fill in the lowest holes and such with body filler and not go with a perfectly smooth surface. I really like that combination with the glossy black paint, the antique brass tag and all the freshly machined parts with a brushed nickel plated finish.
The bead roller is now in perfectly working condition and I'll keep it in the shop to use it for other projects in the future. Can't wait to make new dies for it for other applications.
I hope you like my work and enjoy the video.
Huge thank you to all of my Patreon supporters and especially to:
Aaron White
Adel AlSaffar
Alfonso Baz
Andrew Egerton
August Kupfer
Ben Burns
Sigoss Family
Bold Cheddar
Brenna Redpath
Chris Ulivarri
Edward Conway
John Shebanow
Joseph Kamps
Josh Ledford
Joshua Scher
Kar
Kerem Yollu
Kyle O'Keefe
Lambda GPU Workstations
Lorraine Hughes
Marcus H.
Mark Tesmer
Michael Fleisher
Mo B
Nick Houston
NoLoneSurvivor
Peter Cyprian
Peter Pearson
ReddDirt
Ricky Adolphe
Ryan Pickett
Scott Tomlin
Stefano Di Biase
Stuart
Tyler Carruth
Vickie Bligh
Vince Valenti
Yale Baker
Albert Siemers
Alex Manning
Andre
andrew
Anton Pchelkin
Arni Bjorgvinsson
Ben Simmonds
Benny
Big Ole' Bran
Bobby herrera
Bonnie Williamson
Brian Hoerl
Briscolone05
Bruce Boschek
Caleb Betczynski
Chad Bryant
Charles D
Chris Faehl
Chris Visscher
Chris Walter
Christian Fjelldal
Christopher Lobay
Communidad
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
Daniel Varga
Dave Hardware
David Chang-Yen
David Lehnus
David P Hruska
David Thompson
Derson Jacomini
Dustin Davis
Eddie
Erik Nordby
Flo Sauter
Gareth Rimmer
Hakan Uzunoglu
Heidi Jeffs
Ivan Marks
Jack Curry
JacopoBello
James Hare
Jesus Fernandez Cortes
Justin Miller
Kiro Ivanovski
Kyle Edgar
Laurent Bolli
Leevi Kontkanen
Marc Cerisier
Mary Casella
Matthew Johnson
MDC
Mihai
Máté Tamás Molnár
Norbert Spaar
Oleksandr
Oliver Quandt
Panagiotis Mavrommatis
Pat Nakajima
Rania Zainalabedin
Raoul Kriesi
repülő búgás
Roan Fryer
Rob Sherfick
Robert Landrum
Ross Clark
Sam
Sarah B.
Scott Brooks
Scott Marshall
Sparrow
Spencer Kormos
Stanley Dimant
Stefan Heymanns
Svenja Kuckla
Taylor Stimpson
Thanny
Tim Holt
Timofey Lychik
Trevor Kam
Tucker Ifft
wdwfan78
William
Sorry for my bad english, it's not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english.
Thank you for watching 🙂
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Datsun 240Z Restoration - Front Axle (Part 6)
In this video I'm fully restoring the complete front axle with all the suspension components and the steering rack. I took the full assembly off the car in the teardown in episode 1.
At first it looked like a quick and easy job, but after seeing all the parts after disassembly I knew this might take a little longer. I decided to go with a classic finish and paint them all in matte black. Almost all parts made of steel have been yellow zinc plated by a local company. This is a very good rust protection. On top of that Mister Patina powder coated the parts, this is a double protection and these parts should never ever rust again.
I took the original ball joints apart and realized that both studs are bent. I decided to make new ones. These are tricky parts, not just because of the precise sphere and the oil grooves, also because they're case hardened. Means only the surface of the ball is hard and the rest of the part is soft. I had to run some test pieces to figure out if I can do it, and they were all successful. The ball was machined on the milling machine with a boring head, the oil grooves were done on the lathe in a special jig and I was able to case harden the pieces in the kiln. First I had to enrich the surface of the ball with carbon. I placed the part in a sealed container filled with crushed charcoal. At 930°C carbon will get absorbed around 0.1mm deep into the part per hour, so I left it in for around 5h and ended up with 0.5mm thick carbon layer. They rest of the part didn't absorb any carbon, because the surface was covered by a sleeve. Now I just needed to harden and temper it. I measured 52-58 HRC on the ball surface, the rest was still soft and the sphere was round within 0.01mm. I also was able to restore the other ball joints.
As I want to lower the car, I decided to install adjustable coilovers by „KW suspension“. For this upgrade you need to cut and weld the original struts. I didn't want to loose the ability to build it back to original, so I bought a set of struts from „DCW Classic“. Currently the springs and other parts are in the KW colors yellow and purple, to have them more blending in I'm going to swap these with black parts.
This was so much work in the end, I've spent 51 days in the workshop on this axle. But the result speaks for itself. It all looks like straight out of the factory.
I hope you like my work and enjoy the video.
0:00 preview and disassembly
7:14 cleaning and sandblasting
8:15 restoring all sandblasted parts
12:58 zinc plating and powder coating
13:48 restoring main ball joints
20:50 restoring steering rack
29:29 restoring barke calipers
32:04 making sway bar washers
33:02 making lock nuts
34:09 making no.7 bolts and nuts
36:07 KW coilover conversion
37:55 reassembly
44:10 finish
Huge thank you to all of my Patreon supporters and especially to:
Adel AlSaffar
Alfonso Baz
August Kupfer
Ben Burns
Sigoss Family
Brenna Redpath
Chris
Colten Hazelip
David Lehnus
Edward Conway
Furman A
John Shebanow
Joseph Kamps
Josh Ledford
Joshua Scher
Kar
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Kyle O'Keefe
Lambda GPU Workstations
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Marcus H.
Mark Tesmer
Mellissa Marcus
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Mo B
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NoLoneSurvivor
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Peter Pearson
ReddDirt
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StevenVR
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Vince Valenti
Yale Baker
Aiden P
Albert Siemers
Alex Manning
Andre
Andrew Thomas
Anton Pchelkin
Arni Bjorgvinsson
Ben Simmonds
Benny
Big Ole' Bran
Bobby herrera
Bobcat Johnson
Bonnie Williamson
Brian Hoerl
Briscolone05
Bruce Boschek
Caleb Betczynski
Chad Bryant
charader
Charles D
Chris Faehl
Chris Visscher
Chris Walter
Christian Fjelldal
Christopher Lobay
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
Daniel Varga
Dave Hardware
David Chang-Yen
David P Hruska
David Thompson
Dustin Davis
Eddie
Erik Nordby
Flo Sauter
Gareth Rimmer
Hakan Uzunoglu
Heidi Jeffs
Ivan Marks
Jack Curry
James Hare
Jesus Fernandez Cortes
Justin Miller
Kiro Ivanovski
Laurent Bolli
Leevi Kontkanen
Marc Cerisier
Mary Casella
Matthew Johnson
Matthew Mitchell
MDC
Mihai
Norbert Spaar
Panagiotis Mavrommatis
Pat Nakajima
Rania Zainalabedin
Raoul Kriesi
repülő búgás
Roan Fryer
Rob Sherfick
Robert Landrum
Ross Clark
Sarah B.
Scott Brooks
Scott Marshall
Sparrow
Spencer Kormos
Stanley Dimant
Stefan Heymanns
Svenja Kuckla
Taylor Stimpson
Thanny
Tim Holt
Timofey Lychik
Trevor Kam
Tucker Ifft
Warren Mingo
wdwfan78
William
Sorry for my bad english, it's not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english.
Thank you for watching 🙂
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Finally Painting the Car! Datsun 240Z Restoration (Part 5)
In this video I'm continuing the restoration on my 1973 Datsun 240Z. In the last video the car was blasted, primed and also high build primer was applied.
After a few weeks of curing the high build primer it was time to start preparing the car for the final paint job. The complete car and all its parts were block sanded. To see low spots better a dry guide coat was applied. Sanding is needed until all low spots are gone, but you need to stop sanding once you reach bare metal. If there are still low spots after that, means it needs body filler. Sometimes also a few light hammer hits could also help. On all the spots with body filler and bare metal was epoxy primer applied. Doors, fenders, hood and tailgate looked still a bit rough after that step. That's why another coat of high build primer came on for the final fine sanding with 320 grit. After this step the paint had 2 months time to properly cure before the actual paint job. During that time I applied seam sealer and sealed all gaps and everything where water could get trapped. I also installed sound deadening on the inside of the car. It's extra made to be painted, this way I'm having it like it was original.
Right before the paint all surfaces were fine sanded with 400 grit. First the chassis was on the rotisserie to apply the undercoating. Then the car was painted underneath, inside and the engine bay. First one closed layer of the right grey shade was applied, after around 30 minutes 2-3 coats of base coat was applied. I choosed an original Datsun color: Datsun 920 Safari Gold. The color was adjusted a little bit to have more pop, the original one was a bit pale and too brownish. To finish the paint job, two nice coats of clear coat were applied. The car then came off the rotisserie to paint the outside. Once the chassis was done all the remaining parts were painted. For the rear panels, spoilers, grille and wheels I picked a nice anthracite called Daytona Grey. All these parts were covered by a matte clear coat. The dark parts fit very nice with the mustard yellow ones in my opinion, they have a very nice contrast.
This was such a big journey to come to this point and I'm very happy to finally have the car painted. It took 48 days of work for all the work you can see in that 13 minutes video.
I hope you like my work and enjoy the video.
Thanks to Glasurit for sponsoring all the paint:
https://www.glasurit.com/de-ch/classic-car-colors
Huge thank you to all of my Patreon supporters and especially to:
Adel AlSaffar
Alfonso Baz
August Kupfer
Ben Burns
Sigoss Family
Brenna Redpath
Chris
Chris Walter
Colten Hazelip
Daniel Shaw
David Lehnus
Edward Conway
Huard de la Marre
Jennifer K
John Shebanow
Joseph Kamps
Josh Ledford
Joshua Scher
Kar
Kerem Yollu
Kyle O'Keefe
Lambda GPU Workstations
Lorraine Hughes
Marcus H.
Mark Tesmer
Mellissa Marcus
Michael Fleisher
Mo B
Nathaniel Jack
Nick Houston
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Peter Pearson
potokslow
ReddDirt
Ryan Pickett
Stefano Di Biase
Stephen Buggy
StevenVR
Tyler Carruth
Vickie Bligh
Vince Valenti
Yale Baker
Aidan P
Albert Siemers
Alex Manning
Andre
Andrew Thomas
Arlekino
Arni Bjorgvinsson
Arnon Shimoni
Ben Simmonds
Big Ole' Bran
Bobcat Johnson
Bonnie Williamson
Brett Pitts
Brian Hoerl
Briscolone05
Bruce Boschek
Caleb Betczynski
Chad Bryant
charader
Charles D
Chris Faehl
Chris Visscher
Christian Fjelldal
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
Daniel Thoenen
Daniel Varga
Dave Hardware
David Chang-Yen
David P Hruska
David Thompson
Derson Jacomini
Dustin Davis
Erik Nordby
Flo Sauter
Gareth Rimmer
Haze Skunk
Jack Curry
Jacob Hamm
James Hare
Jeff Keener
Jeremy Cole
Josiah Brown
Joël Franusic
Justin Miller
Kiro Ivanovski
Laurent Bolli
Leevi Kontkanen
Marc Cerisier
Mary Casella
Matthew Johnson
Matthew Mitchell
Max Johnson
MDC
noertap
Norbert Spaar
Panagiotis Mavrommatis
Rania Zainalabedin
Raoul Kriesi
repülő búgás
Roan Fryer
Rob Sherfick
Robert Landrum
Ross Clark
Scott Brooks
Scott Marshall
Sean Welgemoed
Sparrow
Spencer Kormos
Stanley Dimant
Stefan Heymanns
Svenja Kuckla
Taylor Stimpson
Thanny
Tim Holt
Timofey Lychik
Trevor Kam
Tucker Ifft
Warren Mingo
wdwfan78
William
Sorry for my bad english, it's not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english.
Thank you for watching 🙂
„I make a new one“ T-Shirts:
https://teespring.com/stores/my-mechanics
My Second Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/mymechanicsinsights
My Patreon Page:
https://www.patreon.com/mymechanics