Wow. Thank you. Never thought I'd have someone say that about my car!
Well, this is what the car looked like at 1am last night, except the rear apron wasn't installed.
At 1:01am this turned into the motor-clean from hell, as I went to go rotate the motor to TDC so I could check the valve adjustments. Motor wouldn't turn, locked solid. WTH? E-brake, off. Trans, neutral. WTF. I was already pretty tired from the previous nights early morning, but with time running out before the show I had no choice. The motor was stripped, dropped and checked again. Once the motor checked out okay, I discovered
someone hadn't tightened up the countersunk trans mount bolt enough when he adjusted the transmission mount. Sigh.
Back in when the motor, and the carbs, and the wiring, and the oil lines. Now I just need to adjust the valves, change the filter, prime the oil system, add the spark plug wires, swap the distributor and I'm good to move onto other parts of the three-page list.
Went to bed at 4:45am, considered staying up to watch the sunrise but the 3 hours sleep was probably a good idea.
-Dave