Datsun 240 Restoration Part 7 - Rear End Perfection

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 Mo B Nick Houston NoLoneSurvivor Peter Cyprian Peter Pearson R.A. ReddDirt Scott Tomlin Shao Zhang 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 Hakan Uzunoglu Ivan Eugenio Jack Curry JacopoBello 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 repülő búgás Roan Fryer Robert Landrum Rupert Purcat Sam Sarah B. Scott Brooks Scott Marshall Sean Sands Spencer Kormos Stanley Dimant Stefan Heymanns Svenja Kuckla Thanny Tim Holt Timofey Lychik Trevor Kam Tucker Ifft William Максим Гусев 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