The Great Pumpkin - '71 Duster

Wow, been over a month since my last update. The holidays suck, I've had absolutely no time to myself for weeks. I got out to the garage a few times here and there but not for any extended amount of time.

I did however manage to sort some things out though, mostly in regards to the electrical stuff I did. Pretty sure I did an OK job rewiring the car, no major problems, fires, explosions etc. I needed to replace a couple bulbs and fuses here and there and change some connections around but it was all pretty easy and it's finished.

I have not started it yet though so that is the last thing on the electrical punch list. I was waiting on an oil pump priming tool before I fired it up. It's been sitting for a while so I thought it was cheap insurance to get one of those and make sure I had oil in the right places before ignition.

Got some new 'resto'/detail type things also to spruce the car up - a new dome light lens, glove box liner and a trunk mat.

The only things left to do at the moment are to finish trimming the right side of the new carpet, install the passenger seat, install the new resto pieces, calibrate the A/F gauge, bleed the brakes, prime the engine, check the valve lash, install new spark plugs, fill the fluids and fire it up.

Once it's running, it's on to phase 2 which is tuning. It will need to be aligned before I drive it though which may not be until the spring. Right now there is too much salt on the roads to even consider taking it out, even around the block. I will be happy when the car is running though, I'm tired of the build part.

No pics of anything right now. More to come in the coming weeks though.