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Author:  burkey567 [ Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:25 pm ]
Post subject:  1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
Hey guys,
Just picked up this Light blue Datsun 200B Station Wagon from Shepparton area, the plan here is to get all the parts from dads old wagon and get this one back on the road, which would be awesome to have a wagon rather than sedan. Needs a bit of work esspecially after todays drive home, the car ended up overheating on me and the pistons must be stuffed because now there is no compression, so after flat towing the car from nagambie she now lies at home on the nature strip, where she will be brought back to life when funds permit.

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Author:  green200b [ Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
Spitting image of mine! Except mine is a GX.
Author:  Dato200B [ Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
green200b wrote:
Spitting image of mine! Except mine is a GX.
Sounds like some GX eliteism to me alistair.

Good score mate im suprised it didnt get you home. Usually 200B's are stuborn but never stop.
Author:  DATLOVE [ Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
thought 710's temp needle flashed when overheating!!! not seen one do it!!! good find anyway mate! go with bombed granny spec look!
Author:  unfamilia [ Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:22 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
its a 200b, its already a bomb! ;)

good score, where was all the rust that made it beyond repairs economically?
Author:  green200b [ Tue Jan 08, 2013 9:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
An L-series overheating, many a time I've been stranded because of that...I'm only on my phone here but by the looks of things there's rust in the roof, just above the gutters? I'd better copyright anything I do to my wagon now since ours are the same colour :p
Author:  burkey567 [ Tue Jan 08, 2013 11:07 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
HAHAHA, I'll convert it to a GX, I will be respraying it so your in the clear Al. I havn't had too much of a good look at the rust, when I got home I just went to sleep. Al your pretty much right mate, rusted in the roof gutters, on the roof only by a small bit, has a hole in the bonnet, a few fenders are rusted and a bit at the lower doors, great thing is, I already have the replacement parts, so that will be no trouble, as for the rust in the roof, after I get the car running I will find someone who can weld and that should fix all that. I'm not sure on what the chassis is like, hopefully all good. As for the overheating, she did about 100K's on an overheated engine and then all I heard was the engine crunching away as I accelerate, then in Seymour it just dropped in speed and we couldn't get it started again.
Author:  Dato200B [ Tue Jan 08, 2013 11:18 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
DATLOVE wrote:
thought 710's temp needle flashed when overheating!!! not seen one do it!!! good find anyway mate! go with bombed granny spec look!
710's might flash but 810's do not.
Burkey where you keeping an eye on the temp guage? Be a shame if it was just a dodgey radiator or hose and now your engine is buggered.
Author:  burkey567 [ Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
Yeah I was, problem was the roads I was on there was no where for me to stop and get water, and by the time I was out of the town it was too late. We made a fair few stops at as many servos as possible but it just kept dropping water out of the exhaust pipe, so I'm guessing bugged head gasket. The engine was running fine before it happened so I think it would have been a rusty radiator. Doesn't really matter cause I'll just put the other engine in when I get an engine crane and should be alright. I would have like to have been able to drive it, but it seems that its lost its compression now.
Author:  Dato200B [ Tue Jan 08, 2013 3:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
well if you have another motor thats ok then. Look forward to some progress then.
Author:  Brendan [ Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
green200b wrote:
Spitting image of mine! Except mine is a GX.
Is that my old 200b your talking about? one I sold Myaz?
Author:  Dato200B [ Tue Jan 08, 2013 8:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
Brendan wrote:
green200b wrote:
Spitting image of mine! Except mine is a GX.
Is that my old 200b your talking about? one I sold Myaz?
did you have a light blue GX wagon. Alistairs wagon is literaly identical to this one.
Author:  Brendan [ Tue Jan 08, 2013 9:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
Dato200B wrote:
Brendan wrote:
green200b wrote:
Spitting image of mine! Except mine is a GX.
Is that my old 200b your talking about? one I sold Myaz?
did you have a light blue GX wagon. Alistairs wagon is literaly identical to this one.
Yes it had 5sp trx wheels A/C it had a different front an early front bumper late rear

ps sorry for thread hyjack
Author:  Dato200B [ Tue Jan 08, 2013 10:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
i am sure alistairs wagon is all factory. 3 speed auto, stock hub caps dunno bout his bumpers. I cant imagine he went backwards to an auto though.

where is the Green200B?

Also sorry burkey.
Author:  dirty200B [ Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1980 Datsun 200B GL Wagon
good to see another 200B goon mobile!

long live the wagon
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