Forgotten Classic Nissan Pickup! Will it run and Drive After 20 Years?
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- This is the first of our 4 vehicle rescue! They were all destined for the scrapyard! Today we attempt to get this Classic Nissan 720 Pickup running and driving! Really hope you all enjoy! Thank you always for the continued Love and Support on our Journey! Have a Great Week!
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I like how you don’t edit out you tripping over your words. More like keeping it real. Others would stress themselves out doing 13 takes and edit out most of it.
I’m a goofball 😅 You all need to know this, so I leave it all there lol
I have one of these! Mine is a 1983 2wd and I got mine in similar condition, total garbage. Its been about 3 years now of constant work and its now reliable as a new car off the lot. Great to see someone taking care of old beater vehicles!
Ho' boy, looks like we're gonna get a vehicle rescue BONANZA! I'm excited for the GMC camper and you've been teasing us with the Roadster for a while!
What's eyepopping is that I didn't know there were *TWO* of these!!!!
You got it! Tons up fun on the way! 😃😃 We’ve got some special plans for the two of them!
Best truck I EVER owned. 32 years!! Wish I still had it, but that's a long story. It never, ever left me stranded..
Thats a really nice truck. Old Nissans run forever!
Thanks! They sure do!
@@BudgetBuildz Bullit proof ! And those were built in Japan. VERY good assembly and parts. I miss mine, a 78 or 79.
Drove it to the ground, rusted crazy BUT, the engine was still in top shape !
My 84 720 KC is still running strong at 247K miles. Granted, I have replaced parts when needed, but the nice thing about these trucks is that they are easy to work on and parts are surprisingly cheap and readily available at most decent auto parts stores.
My dad's old 85 720 had 400k on it when he retired it. Still ran fine he just wanted something newer.
86 720 KC 4X4, one previous owner right off the dock. We love the old TONKA truck.
Just found this episode. Interesting fact about those Nissan PUs from the 80s. I owned one new that got totaled on a snowy day sitting in front of my house! Loved that truck. Back when Nissan was making better vehicles than Toyota. I was told that when these trucks entered the US they were classified as cars since they were built on a car platform/frame and that the beds when installed here and reclassified as trucks. This was done to circumvent the Japanese truck limit allowed here to protect the small US truck market
Just saw that the VIN started with a "J" which means it was built in Japan. At first I thought it may have been built in Smyrna Tennessee. I was part of the Team that built the first Datsun / Nissan trucks in Tennessee in 1983. Congrats on your find!
He even had some papers in japanese from the truck. You can see it at 8:22.
@@Lucas_Tulic my dad used to haul porsches and he would bring home Coke bottles, candy wrappers and other paraphernalia with german on them..
I use to live in Murfreesboro Tennessee. Smyrna Tennessee is 10 mi lu es up the road from whare I was living.
Very cool video, I just inherited an 83' 720 that has Nissan and Datsun logos on it; I guess to let people know that they were in a transition year. I'm very excited, has been parked in a carport/ garage here in AZ and appreciated videos like your's that give me encouragement to get this project running. Thanks again and great video!
@@azmulefanthree weeks ago I was gifted a 1983 Datsun Pickup truck, short cab 720 series. I got it from the original owner and it has 97,145 miles. Got a tune up, oil change and getting a tailpipe in couple of weeks and 4 new tires. I hope to have it for a long time.
Your kids are so cute they love your old CARS
Thank you 😊 They sure do love the ole cars!
Dude nice. A couple months ago I got a 1984 Datsun king cab pickup 4x4. I got super lucky. My friend actually found it but he can’t drive stick so I bought it. And it’s been the funnest project. It already has upgraded 31” tires and a Webber carburetor. Just about everything works. I’ve had so much fun replacing old parts like the slave and master cylinder, cv boots, brake lines. Interior. New stick bushings and shocks/ struts. Removed gas tank cleaned up rust. New electric fuel pump and filter. New led lights. The list goes on. Planning on putting a 3” body lift. It’s been real. Off roading has been awesome
Dude I can't believe you found Datsun roadsters!! You gotta do a series on these. They're so cool and rare. I've wanted one for a long time. Keep up the work, the channel is great. Loved your paint booth too.
Restomod with a modern Nissan engine would be amazing.
very rare around here. I think i saw one years ago.
@@chefmike4414 SR20 swaps are common.
Man, nice I had a 1983 Nissan King cab 4x4 I had bought new. It blew a head gasket at about 50k miles, traded it in on a new Ford Ranger 4x4 a great truck !
Yeah the head gaskets they came with were a weak link but at least they were easy to replace!
I so appreciate this channel. Your children are simply adorable. Remember to keep them a part of the channel.
Be great for a young guy that lives in the country and can drive on back roads. Great fun little truck.
Love the old classic 'baby' pickups from Japan. Pretty decent shape as well. Stay safe and stay well.
Your kids are getting truly wonderful childhood memories in this fake plastic trees world which they will cherish their whole life. Good job, man, good job.
as a european i had to google what you where eating,seems like a hazelnut spread one must be a good snack
I have a 86 Nissan pickup with the same motor Z24 and have sunroof and electric windows. I love it . It's my source of work.
You are raising some smart helpers there My friend. Love the kids.
It’s great to see a awesome and humble family getting involved in will it starts and having fun while you are doing it. Never change guys keep up the hard work and thanks for sharing this with us take care and see you all on the next one
Edited and she sounds healthy
Thanks man! Really appreciate the kind comment ☺️ We’ll keep it coming! She really did smooth out and got fairly happy!
@@BudgetBuildz Your very welcome bud and no problem glad I can come along for the ride and watch the fun memories being made with you and family. Yep she sure did
Great thing you are doing 😁
That truck looks like a champ, man. Nice to see that you saved it from just being another crushed up block of metal. I got a 96 Nissan pickup and it runs like new after 300,000 miles.
That old GMC motorhome is a score! Those things are super scarce these days. Lol, I know because I was trying to find one in my neck of the woods!
The million mile truck, love when vehicles that have been sitting get saved . Nice job 👍
I’ve never in my life seen a car idle so good after 20 years of sitting it sounded normal?!?!
Did you save Eagle 5?
The Spaceship Winnebago from SPACEBALLS!
Haha you know we did! 😃 Is it wrong I like Spaceballs better than the “other” space movies 😅
@@BudgetBuildz - Absolutely not, and may the Schwartz be with you!
@@BudgetBuildz yaaaaaaaay :D
Love this channel so glad you are saving them from the crushers
Really glad you are enjoying! 😃
I love this channel. I am also glad you are saving classics from the crusher and junk yard. Looks like everyone loves these will it run videos almost 6k views is 4 hours. That's awesome. Keep up with the great content.
I'd love to see this truck all cleaned up and fully sorted, that color scheme is really nice looking and the truck itself isn't in that bad of shape really
I'm so jealous. Each of these cars is dope. That little truck is my dream car for sure.
Awesome! I learned to drive a stick shift in my uncle's mid-70's Datsun pickup. Then my son learned how to drive a stick in my '87 Suzuki Samurai.
I am watching you from Germany. I really wanna stress ur being yourself and not trying to impose some unrealistic feelings or reactions. keep it up
Sketchy brakes.. Sketchy clutch.. Sketchy wires.. Hey kids let's go for a ride.. Hahaha haha
I remember my dad saying those very words, best memories of my life!!!
I had a really similar one brown and cream two tone with brown and tan interior extended cab like that. Mine was an 84. It had a sunroof and power windows. Thing was super tough. Not the prettiest thing in the world but I feel like probably one of Nissan's best engines.
Can't wait until you save those two Datsun SPL-311s (1600s). I had two all during High School & College and love those.
Well thank you for getting the barn find idea out of my head.
This is a good little runner for someone to have. Great job on saving it!!!
I love those little trucks. There starting to harder to find. I would love to have that truck. I would start getting new stuff for it. Maybe one day I'll I'll beable to find one that I can clean up for the right price.
You're doing a great job with these saveable old clunkers, mate. Well worth saving and a useful and cool, cheap ride for someone. Kudos, man.
I have a scabricated 85 Nissan 720 with a glass pack exhaust and some epic pro comp xterrain tires and a flatbed it’s epic
That truck will clean up well, and is a good candidate for a proper diy rebuild.
Hope you find a good home for it!
I own a 1985 Nissan 720 4x4 and its on the road every day! 2023 still going! Best to use Rotella or Delo 10W-40W or 15w-40w with these becuse of the zinc in it. Weber Carbs are great for these too:P
Glad to see some more info on the roadsters. Can't wait to see them running!
In 87 I bought Nissan hard body 2.4 liter 8 plugs throttle body, kept it 14 years, one of the most reliable vehicles I've ever owned, it always started after you let off the key, nothing fancy but it got me around for well over 200k
I love those Datsun. I had a friend who had one in the early 80s, it was a classic then.
Awesome video, cool little truck, the Motor Home from “Stripes “ , can’t wait for the Datsuns.
The EM50 Urban Assault Vehicle!
The transaxle on the GMC camper which makes it front wheel drive, is the same one, which is on Olds Toronados, Cadillac Eldorados, 1980's Sevilles & mid to late 1970's Buick Rivieras. It's a bit of a "hot rod" legend on it's own.
Of course, that camper is worth saving, if it's in as good a shape as it appears to be, but even if it wasn't, it'd be worth pulling that transaxle out. They were reliable, but what really makes them cool imo, is they could be used to make a mid-engined sports car!
That brown paint is affectionately known as "turd brown" here in the UK. Keep up the fantastic work. Cheers
Great video and pickup rescue, old Nissan's are great😃🇳🇴
Great place of old classics and saved from the scraper and to good homes👍❤
You arguing with that bird made me laugh. We have crows and ravens all over the place in my town, and I go out and tell them to pipe down when they're making a bunch of noise. My wife thinks I'm odd.
I would say those datsuns are worth some money!!
You are so lucky to live where you do. There may be two or three of these trucks around here that where bought new here. They where bad for rust and most where probably off the road after 8 or 10 years.
That clutch slave cylinder was reverting back to ore!
Pretty awesome finds in SC. I'm in Rock Hill born & raised.
I Love the GMC Motorhome. Can't wait for the episode on it.
You mean the EM50 Urban Assault Vehicle!
I'd love to bring one of them Datsun 1600's back to life, so cool man
Those engines are amazing and run well over 250,000 miles. I had a 510 wagon with the same engine i sold at 257,000 miles running just fine.
Cool little truck my step dad had one when I was younger but his was a 4X4 with no brakes lol 4 low that's all the brakes you need is what he always said sure miss the good old days sure miss him lots thanks for bringing that old memory back great video enjoy watching keep the great work
Cool truck! Love old school Japanese. Love the brown!!
Back it the day some of those GMC campers came with color matched Yamaha Chappy scooters, cool looking for sure.
My first car was an 83 Datsun Nissan pu. Loved that truck
Surprised that it ran so well, all things considered. Enjoyed it!
Didn't even notice the bird until you pointed it out 😂 great content man, awesome lil truck, but not a fan of the doodoo color lol
Well done early datsuns utes are getting rare ive got a 1980 king cab in blue with blue trim paints not the bet. It's great to have great show take care from Australian.
i love that little truck had one way back in the day it was a fun truck
Lovely old truck, great to see it being saved!
Looking forward to the motorhome.
The Nissan is beautiful.. deserves to be rescued. And should be a fairly cheap rescue. Roadsters are amazing. :-)
must be good as the kids were not screaming to get out lol, you should get the GMC motor home it would make a great office and kitchen for the garage.
Cool old truck. Never seen that model before. Definitely worth saving. Loved your kids reaction when they sat in it & they mentioned the spider webs !! Lol
I had a 1985 720, these trucks were basically indestructible other than rust (and sometimes the motor would eat head gaskets, but mine never did). Very tough little buggers. They would literally haul anything you could fit inside the box and laugh it off. Obviously with 100hp and 132lb-ft toque (though the torque curve was basically FLAT) they werent tow rigs, but they would still attempt to pull anything you hitched to them and in many cases would succeed. I towed many big land yachts around with mine, lol!
You basically drove it wide open everywhere and it simply wouldn't break 😂
The Z24 engine was stupid overbuilt and with the restrictive smog head you simply couldn't blow it up. Put a rock on the gas pedal in neutral and it would rev to about 7000 if I remember correctly but it still wouldn't blow up. My father told me a customer ran one till it siezed from no oil after a change, they broke it free with a pipe wrench and filled it with oil, customer drove it home.
Mine still ran like new when i got sick of it (the only car this thing could beat in a race was probably a stock VW bus) and traded it. I regret that sometimes, it was a great little truck.
I believe it was still around bumping around a farm well into the 21st century....but yes, time was not kind to the bodies. I dont remember the last time i saw one on the road.
Lovely old Nissan pick up truck. Near where I live is a datsun/nissan workshop. Last month it had the same truck in there as well. Great stuff!
Great find! Hopefully someone will be able to use this for years to come
I didn’t see any smoke come out after you got it tuned up that’s a good thing way to go my go👍🏼
All that water in the fuel cleaned out the carbon 😂😂
Those stupid Z24 motor's literally run on anything that burns and this video proved they will try to run on stuff that doesn't!
My 1985 Nissan pick up was scraped due to hand hole in the frame rust hole. The scrap yard used it as a parts picking truck for 4 more years. It had a Union Jack painted on the tail gate so it was obviously mine.
My dad had the 82’ version of that truck which was officially referred to as Datsun until that year. In 83’ Nissan Motor Company decided to change the name to it and own the fact they were a Japanese company. Those trucks are indestructible and really fast when tuned correctly. I remember my dad raced a bone stock civic coupe in the 90’s and left it way behind!
Mike
That was a gret video I just live these old american cars and trucks in the uk they so different you have so much fun getting them going again wish I was there helping have a great week Phil in the UK
I like the pickup that you got running, but I would love to see how you get the two Fairladys going! Those cars are the prizes!!
At least your slave cylinder is outside of the housing...unlike my '98 Ranger, lol. Since I had to take off the transmission to get to mine I just went ahead and replaced everything from the slave cylinder, throw out bearing, clutch, master cylinder...even put in a new rear main seal since I had everything off. And yeah, mine has 8 sparkplugs on it's little 4 cylinder too, lol.
Great job! 👍 Now I look forward to you driving the convertibles! 😉
Now if you had found a Datsun 620 I'd be speeding towards your way with a stack of cash ! But hey good job getting that old truck running, them old Nissan's run forever.
Great work on getting them to run again!! Very educational!!
Driving the nissan with your kids reminded me of my childhood my father had one and it had a faulty reverse gear too crappy car but fun to drive
Love these videos, what a find of little treasures, can't wait to see those roadsters up and running, keep up the great vids 👍🏻
Very complete fix/star again old classic lady..oh yeaa
Those mid 80's nissan trucks in my opinion. The best small kingcab pickup trucks. I drove an 85 model factory lifted with a 4 wheel drive. I could not hear it when it was running idle inside or outside. The low end torque in the slower speeds, strong yet smooth for a small 4 wheel drive truck. It felt like a bigger truck in a small package. Nissan Corporation outdid themselves on that model. I thank👏 you for taking the time to save a great little power house 💪.
Great to see how the whole family support you .Great to see your progress
Nice little truck, it would definitely look better in the original paint color. I cant wait to see the datsuns, those are awesome little cars, i'd like to have one some day
Love y'alls channel! Subscribed! Great concept, and educated dudes! Keep it up
Those Datsun Roasters are priceless
I had one of those dots and Roasters in the early 80s AKA The Fair Lady is what their nickname is fun car to drive
That old GM bus is intriguing, those were great vehicles with amazing modern designs. Too bad she is probably tore up inside.
I had one of those Nissan trucks with exactly the same colour it was great
The plastic interior was so terrible
I wish I could put some pictures up for you 😍😍👍👍
That is the 2lt engine mine had the L 18 smaller motor
They were enlarged to a 2.4l by 1985, torque curve and rev range of a diesel without thr smoke lol
But they were basically indestructible
those roadsters for a while were considered classics! I was momentarily shocked when those were revealed. They were all over the streets for a while when they first came out.
Funny, my d21 came stock with a brass radiator hose coupler on the lower like that. Both hoses still stamped "Nissan" and it lasted like that for 27 years
That car is indestructible and extremely reliable.
Major kudos for bringing that baby back to life🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
A word of caution. Whenever I worked on something this crusty from underneath. I would jack up one side of the car as high as my jackstands would allow. Then power wash the bottom the wheel wells and the entire suspension front and back before repeating on the opposite side of the car. Then I could work underneath without worrying about rust cutting me up or getting in my eyes. All the best Mike
That’s an awesome find. Looking forward to the next videos. Love the channel!
there is nice bird i love the sound ...the Nissan looks nice
You do a great job of info, content, pace and editing.
I love the Will it run Videos. Good job on getting it running.
Those old GMC motorhomes are cool!
Great find. Thanks to share.
Good morning my good friend, well done posting
Wow you're gutsy! Turning that engine over with the wing nut hanging precariously over the open carb!
That engine would laugh at it 😂
Wonderful job on the little truck, can't wait to see what's next!