Got a lotta chit accomplished over the weekend. Got rearend put back in and bolted back up. Most of my time was wasted searching for scattered bolts. Pulled a coupla all niters and got that effin thing done. Now all I gotta do as far as that goes is torque everything real nice and move on to the front end. Picked up detent cable and new vacuum mod. for tranny. No place in town sells prebent line. Internet sells prebent line, but it's hiway robbery. I will have to face the music and bend my own. Tools made the rear end go much quicker getting back together than coming apart. I had the RIGHT tools this time which helped. tranny jack and electric impact were life savers. I dunno HOW I would have gotten tank and rear aligned any kinda quickly without them.
Now waiting for summit return to process. Praying I will be able to get front end done. All I'm gonna do is put new cam, lifters, timing chain on engine. redo lines to new carb. New (IROC) pwr steering box. that stuff's a gimme. I'm hoping I will be able to get someone to do frt suspension for me on the cheap. Not looking forward to effing with body bushings and all that other junk. But am quite prepared to do without, if I gotta. After months of hemming and hawing, I think I'm gonna yank the a/c. It may still work, but it's over 20 years old, and I don' t wanna deal with the drama of working around it to pull those damn headers again. Altho, since those headers are now dimpled...here we go again
So, issues to work out: tranny lines, FUEL LINE, d/s rebalanced& new hardware, remember to get new water pump. vacuum modulater line. Actually not that much to worry about. The car WAS in running condition before I freaked and tore it down, after all.
Damn ebay. I knew I shouldn't have, but outta curiosity, I looked around for taco parts to fix the truck while I was there. It seems as if I might actually be able to fix the truck for MUCH cheaper than I thought. Problem is, unless I sell the truck, I probably won't be able to swing bills for this month. In fact, I'm pretty much HAVING to sell the truck, in order to pay bills. I may squeak by, but dunno.