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[RMS]

I never would have thought a bad fan sw would lead to a head light swap.
in prepping my 91 loyale for winter i noticed the fan failed to kick in. i jumped power to the fan and it worked so the problem was the thermo sw. i had just changed the coolant:banghead: being lazy i thought i would wire in a push fan from a xj6 that i ran in my 86gl. the xj6 fan fits great but interferes with the grill. i had a datsun 510 grill hanging around and it fit nicely between the stock lights. a buddy came by and saw what i was doing. he said why don't you stick the datsun lights in while your at it. hating the candles in jam jars that pass for head lights on the loyale i thought i would give it a try and see how they fit.
the width was perfect now the fun part how to mount them? being a 510 guy i have lots of spares kicking around and i took a complete rad support and with a couple of cuts i had mounts for the light buckets.
it took a little bending and some nylon spacers to get the hood to close and the lights to stop pointing at the sky. the hardest part was figuring out how to wire it all up. I ran leads from the stock light sockets to relays and they work like stock.
if captain hindsight was around he would have let me know that it's much faster and easier to swap the fan switch.
now what do i do with all the spare suby headlights and my stone guards from AU

[VaporTrail]

nice!

[Subaru_dude]

I think you should replace the Datsun badge with a Subaru badge... just so people can tell. OR you could go ahead and leave it and stick a Subaru emblem on the other side of the grill to confuse people.

[TOsborn]

Wow, looks great.

[tractor pole]

Nice Power Wagon! recently I helped a friend of mine pull the motor in his M37 (the military version of that truck). I really would like to have one one day.

I also agree that the stock loyale headlights are garbage.

[herb]

that actually looks pretty decent.

[RMS]

thanks McBrat,TOsborn and herb

I think you should replace the Datsun badge with a Subaru badge...

im down with confusing people, i will go badgeless or make my own Dats.A.ru badge.

Nice Power Wagon! recently I helped a friend of mine pull the motor in his M37

the pw looks good @ 5ft but she is ruff and is only a parts truck for my 51 B1 pw. the m37 is a far superior truck. one of my m37shttp://www.g741.org/...php?f=10&t=5162

[rpholz]

That's killer, I love outside the box thinking!

[BratRod]

The decoding of "datsaru" dats a ru. Otherwise known as "Thats A Roo" I like your thinking my friend

[RMS]

exactly man:D "Thats A Roo" and its best said in Scooby-Doo's voice

[tractor pole]

Nice M37!
My friends is a radio truck version. the hard top is really cool too
Ben

[RMS]

 

added some hub caps

[mikaleda]

Cool I like the way that setup looks

[O.C.D.]

It's so wrong it's right?!

[RMS]

thanks guys

 

what do you think about dropping the stock mirrors and mounting some  fender mirrors. JDM style

[peacewize]

I think it might not look bad with that front end. Try it wouldn't take much to put back to stock

[RMS]

all the loyals ive seen have two mirrors is there a stock blank off for cars with one mirror ? and was one mirror an option in righthand drive markets?

[peacewize]

I have a blank off for the right side you can have

[RMS]

thanks peacewize pm sent.    

 

easy mirror blank off found now on to the hard one a left side blank off from a right hand drive market

 

what mirror would look better on the Datsaru? 

[herb]

if you plan on keeping the grill chrome, I would stick with the chrome mirrors.  Myself, I would plastidip the grill black and go with the black mirrors.  either way it looks sweet man.

[88wacaroo]

Looking at it straight on in the Pics it looks like a old citroen-meserati somewhat which is odd since I owned a couple of old 510s!!! Yeah I agree the GLs headlights Blow in the dark  At least now you can put some CIBIE"s or HELLA"s in there W/80/100 Watt bulbs and see in the dark  !!! Go with the short chrome mirrors-Like the saying goes....If it don"t go chrome it!!