John S's Journal

…for the last year. After the grandkids went home I decided it was about to flip the battery disconnect switch and see if there was any issues with the electrics after having hooked everything back up since the engine went back in. Quick check for smoke. All good. Key on to see if there were any fuel leaks. Yep. Float bowl lid. New gasket on and another check. Another leak and a bigger one. This time it was at the main line junction in front of the heater box and it appeared to be a pin hole in the line itself. Fortunately, I had saved everything off of my ‘70 donor when I dismantled it. Got that on so it was time to turn the engine over without the plugs to see if the oil pressure was good. I had replaced the pump and had coated it all in assembly lube but it seemed like it took awhile and the electric gauges aren’t always reliable. It started to climb however after a couple minutes of cranking the engine. All good. Time to put the plugs in and hook up the coil and plug wires. A couple CCW adjustments on the distributor and after a little coughing and spitting, she ran again after all the work that I’ve done! Then I looked under the car and saw oil.
Fortunately it was the oil cooler hose connection at the oil filter that wasn’t quite snugged up. All good. I got it to run well enough to run through the gears while it was still up on jackstands but there is some fine tuning to do yet and a tiny coolant leak to find and remedy but it’s a happy day!

Some pictures of the work to get to this point seem reasonable as a reminder of the journey.