Oh Chris did you manage to get your speedo cable to connect up around the cross member. I've heard of people drilling a hole in the crossmember to fit it better?
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 16 September 2002 19:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: L20B into a Datto 1600 yeah gday, did you use the oil pickup and sump off the L18? As they were probibably the L16 ones as the sump is smaller and the L20B one may be hiting the cross member and preventing the donk from sitting on the correct angle. As I have a L20B in my 1600 and it is fine with the L16 sump and pickup. Cheers Chris W > Stuey, > Welcome to the List. I've heard of this problem before, although when I > did the same > as you, my bonnet cleared the L20B -no problem. In my case, I had to > use the L18 rocker > (cam) cover, only because the one that came with the L20B black motor > was broken. > So perhaps the L18 cover is shorter in height? I don't know. I did also > add a 240K 5-speed > box at the same time and this seemed to require 25mm thick spacers > between the gearbox > crossmember and the bodywork. The net effect of this tilted the front > of the motor even higher > than normal which should have made the problem worse, yet I was still > able to close the bonnet > fully. Weird huh? > Someone on the list will know a way to do it for sure, as this is a > common complaint. > > Regards, > Rob P > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stuey Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 4:50 PM > Subject: L20B into a Datto 1600 > > >> Hi there, my name is Stuart Roberts and i have just put a slightly > modified >> L20B into my 1972 datto 1600. I bought the car with an L18 in it and >> have used the same mounts and cross-member that was in the car. The >> problem > that >> has arrisen from this is that the front of the motor sits high, which > means >> that the bonnet will not close? How can i rectify my situation? Do i >> have to replace the mounts in the car with L20 mounts, or change the >> cross-member, and which Datsun can i source the right >> mounts/cross-member from. >> If you can help me it would be greatly appreciated.. Thankyou >> >> Regards, Stuart Roberts >> >> >> >> _________________________________________________________________ Chat >> with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com >> >> > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
