Time Flies....

Can't believe it's been 10 months since my last post. Shows how lazy I am I guess.

I was finally able to bribe Tyler to come over and weld in the new pans. He's a talented welder and I'm glad to have him as a friend (gonna need his welding help again when I work on restoring the front seat frames).

Other newly installed items of note: new front-end, sway bar, new brakes all the way around, pedal cluster (rebuilt by yours truly!), shifter linkage, axle boots, lots of new grommets, rust protectant on the pans, engine lid spring (pain to install), new rubber everywhere, shocks, stronger clips for the throw-out bearing, etc., etc., etc..

Also had to drill out all the driver side pan bolts, as they all snapped when we initially removed the body. That was no fun. First tried an easy-out to get one of the bolts out and that snapped, making it very difficult, well, impossible, to drill that one out. I had to drill a new hole just off to the side. Ultimately I had to drill out all the bolts and rethread all the holes. I feel better now. That was a big hurdle.

There are only 5 more things I want/need to do before I put the body back on: replace the starter motor, install a new throttle cable and gas line (at the rear), lay down the new pan gasket, fill the new tranny with oil.

Once I get the body back on, I'll be installing whatever is necessary to get the bug in shape for towing back over to the body shop for a couple of things they missed.

Ginger will be happy that she can park in the garage again.