You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I went out and bought another set of ramps for the car to level it out. Now that it's up in the air - I wish I'd done this years ago. It's so much easier to get under the car and bending over the back to fiddle with the engine is easier as well.

 

 

Carburetors were taken apart, cleaned and I double checked the float gaps and bench set them once they went back together. I took note of the mains, airs and idles after confirming they were clean.

Overall, they were fairly clean given their limited use and I didn't have to do a lot of adjustment to them.

 

I removed the ~2 gallons of gas that were in the tank - had a look around inside (pretty clean overall) - not much noteworthy here (fortunately).

I checked the oil - it's still very clean but about a quart low so I added the quart and called it good.

The transmission fluid will be checked before I go out anywhere but I suspect it'll be in good condition as well. 

 

 

 

 

  

I bought a group 91 battery from work - sweet employee discount got me a battery for less than half of what Napa wanted for the exact same battery (same manufacturer, different stickers).

The group 91 was a little less expensive than the group 40R or 41. I'd previously used a group 58 battery - this one has a little better reserve and more CCA.  

I didn't get as much done this weekend as I'd hoped - I was looking to make the first attempt at starting it - but I chose a low stress, 'let's see where things go' approach. I am making progress but it's a lot slower than I thought it would be given how close I am to turning it over. I'm not sure I'll be successful at getting this thing to turn over but I guess I'll find out soon enough - maybe next weekend. 

“My sun sets to rise again.”

I spent a few hours in the garage today after essentially doing nothing for about a week - a sinus infection sidelined me for a week. I'm still feeling like trash but I'm up and mobile. And I'm tired of watching television. Weather has largely been shit with sporadic rain/blah weather so not much incentive to go outside.

I took down all the dusty bins full of parts and went through them one by one to figure out what's in them and whether I need the parts anymore. Turns out, I'd kept a lot of random shit I didn't need and I threw out about seven bins of random crap I've been hauling around for far too long. I also better organized and cleaned up the parts that I do need.

I started removing the steering column because a couple of weeks ago, I got in the car and couldn't remove the ignition key. I've since sprayed it with lubricant, tried tripping the column lock (it's not locking) - to no avail. So, looks like I have to pull the column to figure out why the key won't come out, then I can clean it up and put it back in the car. 

During the cleaning whirlwind, I found the stash of the iterations of the oil filter mount brackets. The only one that works is the one that's in the car right now. At some point, I'll be adding the remote oil cooler and the bracket will need to be changed. I wound up keeping these although I'm not entirely sure why just yet.

I pulled the five year old battery out - it's entirely dead by now. I will try to charge it before swapping it out but I don't hold much hope for life in it. Good thing is that I can order a battery through work for about half of retail.

I'm going to have to trace all of the accessory gauge wires at this point because I don't have a fucking clue which wires were intended for each gauge. I know it was close to being done when I stopped.

The rubber floor mat is very crunchy and will likely meet its demise this year...meaning I've got to find a carpet solution if I'm keeping the floor pan the way it is right now.

When this fell out from under the dash, I actually did laugh out loud because I realized that this belongs to the accessory gauge pod that I put together several years ago, although I have no idea which wires belong to which gauges. So, I'll get to pull this apart, sort out what goes where and then put it back together.

Still makes me smile when I look at the OG parts of this car - the doors are in great shape and function perfectly.

I can't wait to get the rest of the car in this shape as well!

I'm hoping to be in good enough shape to get back out tomorrow and finish pulling the column out for repair. 

I've got a few more bins to get through before I'm fully reconciled with the sheer amount of parts waiting for this car.