71 Duster 360 (new project)

Today was blunderville..

Put water in radiator..turned on electric pump...everything ok..

put gas in fuel cell...had to tighten a couple of fitting that were dripping...turn on electric pump...nothing...

i remember i cut the wire to the pump because of the carpet....and i put the passenger seat in..and it is holding down the carpet and I can not get to wires to connect them...seat is gotta come out...

hook up wire...turn on pump...gas leak at the regulator..#8 45 degree fitting from the main line into the regulator has the drips....tighten fitting...still dripping...the dam swivel part is leaking...should have expected that since i was trying to reuse a old fitting...so off comes that fitting...have no #8 45s around...put on #8 90...it works...fuel leak fixed.

ok...going to spin motor over on starter for a few second for pump to pick up oil....no oil pumping up...wait...I never put the oil filter back on after I put engine in car...got plenty of oil on garage floor..ok...again...spin engine..oil pressure...plus all 8 cylinders are pushing compression...

need to make a coil wire to go from Hei cap to Blaster 2 coil...done......

got 904 dipstick tube installed...put 6 qts of type F in trans...

At this point , I would say everything is a go for tomorrow afternoon...to start car...will still have a few thing to do before it hit the track in 10 days....but getting closer by the day.