The Great Pumpkin - '71 Duster

I haven't made much progress on the Duster lately. I put on my new Pioneer balancer. I ordered an aluminum radiator which was ridiculously expensive but I did it anyway. I took the trans cooler lines off the trans and got new tubing and fittings to replace the old leaky stuff. Like usual, I over-thought how to mount the trans cooler up front and went through a few different attempts. Still working on it but I did come up with a simpler idea that I should be able to knock out when I get some more time. I also ordered a set of Hemi Dart style seat brackets from a local guy, I'm gonna go pick them up this week.

Spent a lot of coin lately on a car that's in pieces but I'm pretty much done with major purchases.

As I've said already, the hardest thing for me is to string together solid blocks of time to work on it. As a matter of fact, not being able to work on the car is making me a little nuts lately. For those of you that have kids, you'll understand when I say that I'm counting the minutes until school starts...

Tonight though, I managed to make the time to get out to the shop and got some more stuff done. I didn't do anything on the car itself because I had to clean up before I went any further. My shop was a disaster area. Stuff had been left out and was piling up for what seemed like months. I have a tendency to take out lots of things when I'm involved in something. Couple that with the bad habit of leaving said things out after I'm done with them and you have a royal mess in short order.

I was literally tripping over stuff. Plus, when the mess starts getting bigger, I'll push it out of the way rather than picking it up. I really wish I had better work habits.

The crux of the biscuit here is that I was losing sight of where I was. Working on multiple things simultaneously is never a good idea for me but somehow I end up doing it all the time. It's probably why everything takes me so long, there's so many different uncompleted tasks waiting for this or that. But that's how I roll I guess. And truthfully, everything you do can't be conveniently checked off in sequence or compartmentalized into tidy little segments.

It feels good to clean though and to put things back where they belong. It's like doing laundry after you've been wearing dirty clothes for a week. You wonder why you didn't take the time to do it before things got out of hand.

I'm not totally done tidying up yet but I made a pretty good dent. I even started sorting fasteners. I have no life.

Here are a few before and after shots. :shock:

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