John S's Journal

Today wasn’t as productive as I had other things going on but I did manage to get the underside of the bonnet all painted. Much cooler this morning so I actually had to wait for it to warm up a bit. It rained a bit over night which was a welcome sight. Not enough to squelch the wildfires but I’m sure it was helpful to some degree. I’ll look at the bonnet again in the morning to see if the coverage is good before I unmask it and set about gluing the liners in place.

I started putting some things back in the engine bay but my OCD kicked in again and I found myself cleaning everything that bolts to the inner wings with 400 or 800 grit Emory cloth. Coil bracket, coil, screw and bolt heads, starter relay, P-clips, etc. so things slowed to a crawl. In for a penny, in for a pound they say. I’ve gone to so much trouble to paint the engine bay that I can’t attach something all grungy looking, hence the slow progress. I’ll get to the finish line someday but for now I just try to get something done every day no matter how trivial it seems at the time.

I’m cleaning up the wires as I reattach the loom throughout the engine bay. I had to move the fuse box down to accommodate the strut kit that I installed. The wiring is in remarkable, unmolested condition so it’s just a matter of wiping the individual wires clean and running a small wire bore brush through the bullet tubes and applying a little dielectric grease as I go. Tomorrow’s goal is to continue to string all of the various branches of the loom back where they belong and to clean and paint some brackets.
Horn brackets, charcoal canister bracket, radiator core support brackets and probably some others that need to be cleaned, sanded and painted.
Like I said, someday I’ll get to the finish line…