Island Girl
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Little Update . . . .
Had me some fun today . . . . at least I keep telling myself that . .
Today I planned to move the little mouse motor from the run stand onto the smaller, rolling storage stand from Summit, so it would be a small enough package to move off the porch and load into my truck bed to move over to unload onto the concrete slab.
First order of business was to get everything that might be going to be In my way . . . Out of the way, so into the truck bed it went.
The diff housing skid went up o the porch wall.
So after un-tarping and rolling the engine on the run stand out into the clear area, it looked so sad and lonely, I just had to fire it up, and of course, It Fired Right Up, and about the same time as the headers cooled enough to remove them, my hearing started to come back.
GOT DAMN she sounded sweet!!! . . . Forgot how much I miss that lovely noise!
Once I got it lifted up and the run stand cleared away, I put the Summit stand in place, and for a change, all the effing bolt holes lined up and it fit over the dowel pins that locate the bell housing just like it's supposed to.
Lowered it back down with no issues and rolled the motor back out of the way and tarped it.
Getting tidied up wasn't too bad, moved all the stuff from the truck bed back onto the porch and snatched the diff housing skid off the wall and rolled it back out of the way.
Overall, it doesn't seem like a lot of work, but in this heat, it's taxing . . . . I work about an hour, then take a break for 15 minutes or so while I drink a bottle of water, and then get back at it. . . . Turned out to be a whole day's work.
I need to do a couple little things to the little car to be ready to install the engine/trans, but while I'd like to do them tomorrow, it may be few days, . . . . . pretty sure I'll be feeling today's "exercise" for a day or two to come.
Anyway, . . . here's a few pics of today's fun:
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Had me some fun today . . . . at least I keep telling myself that . .
Today I planned to move the little mouse motor from the run stand onto the smaller, rolling storage stand from Summit, so it would be a small enough package to move off the porch and load into my truck bed to move over to unload onto the concrete slab.
First order of business was to get everything that might be going to be In my way . . . Out of the way, so into the truck bed it went.
The diff housing skid went up o the porch wall.
So after un-tarping and rolling the engine on the run stand out into the clear area, it looked so sad and lonely, I just had to fire it up, and of course, It Fired Right Up, and about the same time as the headers cooled enough to remove them, my hearing started to come back.
GOT DAMN she sounded sweet!!! . . . Forgot how much I miss that lovely noise!
Once I got it lifted up and the run stand cleared away, I put the Summit stand in place, and for a change, all the effing bolt holes lined up and it fit over the dowel pins that locate the bell housing just like it's supposed to.
Lowered it back down with no issues and rolled the motor back out of the way and tarped it.
Getting tidied up wasn't too bad, moved all the stuff from the truck bed back onto the porch and snatched the diff housing skid off the wall and rolled it back out of the way.
Overall, it doesn't seem like a lot of work, but in this heat, it's taxing . . . . I work about an hour, then take a break for 15 minutes or so while I drink a bottle of water, and then get back at it. . . . Turned out to be a whole day's work.
I need to do a couple little things to the little car to be ready to install the engine/trans, but while I'd like to do them tomorrow, it may be few days, . . . . . pretty sure I'll be feeling today's "exercise" for a day or two to come.
Anyway, . . . here's a few pics of today's fun:
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