slowly moving closer and closer

for those of us that mostly do projects on our own and typically aren't experts in what we're trying to do, it's amazing to see what can get done having help from someone who knows what they are doing.

my friend paul came over last night and we got some really good work done. first off, the passenger side brakes were having problems because the adjusting star was really cranked down on the bushing (who did that?). so we broke those loose, adjusted the passenger side and the brakes are set. and boy are they tight! 4 clicks on the parking brake and they are solid. put your foot on the brake and it goes down a little and just sits there like a rock. amazing!

we then moved to the engine. after poking around and figuring out that the nut i dropped wasn't in the engine or anywhere around the spark plug holes where it could drop into the engine, we decided to just leave it. we then spent a ton of time trying to get the fan housing back into position. what a pain! anyway, we got it back on finally and it's all in place. we then gapped and changed out the old spark plugs with new ones and called it a night. the intake is still apart but it shouldn't be too hard to get it back on then replace the cooling tin. i'm really hoping that this weekend it'll be back on four wheels and i'll at least get a chance to fire it up.