Seems like everything I do lately has to be redone.
Fuel pump has been removed, mounting plate installed, and the pump reinstalled.
Ordered a new heater hose nipple for the intake. After its installed, I see that hose is 5/8" not 3/4" like the other.
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Picked up a 5/8 nipple, installed it and the heater hoses are connected.
The bracket for the throttle cable and TV cable mounted with two bolts to stabilize it on the original carb. Edlebrock intake doesn't have the second bolt so a bracket had to be fabbed to get a stable mount. Welded a piece to the original bracket to let it also mount on a second bolt on the intake. Somehow that got screwed up and didn't fit. Had to redo it.
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Its now soaking in the Evapo-Rust. I'll paint and install it tomorrow.
Got WXO's seal remover in too far when pulling the rear seal out of the transmission and scored the bushing.
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Discovered my error when the drive shaft wouldn't go in. Removed the tail housing, cleaned up the burr with a fine chain saw file, reinstalled the tail housing, replaced the seal again and I think it'll be fine.
Now, on to the hacks by the previous owner. I wondered why the left exhaust pipe was not tight to the header. Now I know. When the exhaust pipe is tight to the header, the pipe is jammed up against the shift lever and the shifter will only go into P thru N. I knew part of each exhaust pipe would have to be redone because of the hack job on them and to take advantage of the replacement, dual exhaust X-member but wasn't aware of the interference with the shifter. The loose exhaust pipe will get me to the muffler shop to get the exhaust system fixed up,
The fuel lines, both supply and canister, have to be redone. There are original-looking rubber sections that are soft and some of the original, rusty lines have been bypassed and left in place. I'll remove all the old stuff and replace with new lines.
Some front brake lines are hard up against a header. Wish I'd noticed that before the engine went in. I'll have to re-route and replace some of the lines. Had to reroute the Lincoln front brake lines because of the headers but I did that while the engine was out.
Not the previous owner's fault but the fuel gauge isn't accurate or consistent. The sender will be replaced. Have to drop the tank to do that. Decided to replace the 17 gal fuel tank with the optional 22 gal tank and get the matching 22 gal sender. New tank, sender and straps are arriving this week from RockAuto. Then the entire fuel system will be new.
Doing things right the first time is a lot more fun than recovering from mistakes and fixing other people's hacks.