Faults:

Engine Glow-plug system is defective.

5-Speed Floor shift / The gearbox selectors are mushy even after rebuild.

Windscreen seal and side-window rubbers need constant attention.

General Comments:

I have become very attached to the 720 series of light utilities.

Very reliable and conventional, so they can be repaired beside the road.

Replacing the standard seats with Datsun sports seats was a good move.

Extra-long, wheelbase and after market canopy gives safe storage.

Faults:

My intake manifold corroded, allowing coolant to get into the combustion chambers. I have got the engine pulled apart at the moment (only top end).

The Alternator light started to come on, but this was only a set of brushes.

General Comments:

I have only had the car a few weeks and have already had a few problems. But it is a old car and you have to expect something to go wrong. After I repair it, I don't think it will be a bad car.

I am also planing a engine swap in a year or so. I have a SR20DET and gearbox to put in it. A friend of mine has done a V8 conversion, A holden 308. The suspension has coped well, but he has blown up a few diffs.

I use it as daily transport and for some off road driving. I don't have many complaints as I realize it is an old car, you get what you pay for.

Faults:

Head gasket at 240 000 km.

Spring in the front driver's seat has gone.

Water pump at 340 000 km.

Fuel blockage in the carby at 330 000 proved very difficult to locate and eliminate.

Rust along joins in the front RHS firewall.

Radiator core at 200 000k.

Alternator at 300 000 k.

General Comments:

Served me well over past 11 years.

Only let me down twice.

34 mpg.