When I posted this morning this was the picture of my stopping point last night.

The engine was still sitting on the bench looking like this.

and most of the small parts hadn’t been touched yet & most of them had a thick coating of baked on red clay mud. But with the aid of my beautiful assistant I was able to get it back together this far.

It’s been a long time since I have pulled a hard weekend thrash on any vehicle like this, the fact that I didn’t have to push so hard was part of the challenge for me. When I was younger I spent may a weekend or late night wrenching non stop just to be able to get back to work on Monday, and it’s really nice not to be in that situation any more. It’s also nice to know that I can still pull it off if I have to.

So far so good, now of to order the rest of the parts that I didn’t anticipate needing! Appearance wise this might be a 20 foot restoration but all of the mechanical bits will be in 100% working order!