Y60 general renovation

[Petit caillou]

Hello,

After a few spot welds and other festivities paint driveshaft and manufacturing brake hose, I attacked reassembly bearing pivots, oil seal bottom bowl half shafts and doors rockets:








The fun continues!

Sincerely,
Petit caillou.

[threedogs]

Coming along nicely Pierre, do you see light at end of tunnel yet??
I like your detail to work.

[prophet1]

Hi Petit Caillou, Nice one - can I ask you a quick one please, I am rebuilding my MQ 160 Datsun Safari from the ground up too. Everything is stripped to the last bolt & nut, I am thinking of cold galvanising the chassis (paint brushing it on), after sanding it down to bare metal, what do you advise, I see you just painted it? Thanks and well done on the rebuild, it looks great. Rgds

[prophet1]

Hi, me again, looking at your pics again, I was wondering, if you know if the MQ 160 and your Y60 chassis are exactly the same and will your front & rear axles complete fit my MQ 160 chassis? Thanks for your help friend

[GQ TANK]

Prophet1 - they are differant you should have leaf springs on your truck. The y60 has spring towers - trailing arms etc - aslo the gear box & transfer are differnt. - it would be easier to do a body swap - but still a lot of work.

Anything can be doen dependant of parts you mechanical abilty and local vehicle rules.

[GQ TANK]

Piere get job - the truck had a lot of age damage to begin with.

[Petit caillou]

Hi Petit Caillou, Nice one - can I ask you a quick one please, I am rebuilding my MQ 160 Datsun Safari from the ground up too. Everything is stripped to the last bolt & nut, I am thinking of cold galvanising the chassis (paint brushing it on), after sanding it down to bare metal, what do you advise, I see you just painted it? Thanks and well done on the rebuild, it looks great. Rgds

Hi prophet1,

Thank you for your message,

You have severals choise for the chassis.

you can remove the rust from the wire brush, spend a rust converter and paint,

You can do sand the frame, then apply a special metal paint

You can do sand the frame, apply an anti-corrosion epoxy powder + in the oven 450 degrees for 20 minutes, then an epoxy powder (for color cover) and then put in the oven 450 degrees for 20 minutes. (that's what I did for mine)

You can do the sanding frame and apply a cold galvanizing, galvanizing should be in a perfectly degreased metal. In general galvanizing requires Adobe crossing the room in baths. Hot dip galvanizing is not recommended because the temperature is about 800 ° and thermal deformation are important.

Best regards,
Petit caillou.

[Parksy]

Hi Petit, love reading your thread. Am always a fan of build threads with lots of pictures. I'm just curious, what do you do for a living? You're a very knowledgable person with lots of good ideas!

[Petit caillou]

Hi Petit, love reading your thread. Am always a fan of build threads with lots of pictures. I'm just curious, what do you do for a living? You're a very knowledgable person with lots of good ideas!

Hi Parksy,

I work in the French administration, communication and as webmaster, also in employee safety (safety shoes, work clothes, fire escape procedure ...)

I'm curious by nature and I am interested in this big puzzle 3D.

Best regards
Petit caillou.

[polaris]

Hello.
Fantastic build, I'm doing the same, but without the skill or knowledge