My Duster Adventures

More progress today! (Sorry, no photos)
This morning, I got the rear suspension put all together for the last time (until I decide to pull the springs and paint them)
I then jacked the car up and put it back on the wheel cribs and started greasing the frontend before I had to head off to work.

This evening the first thing I did when I got home was pop the hood and promptly knock a 555 piece cotter pin set off the car and onto the concrete. :BangHead: Picked all those back up and sorted them by size, then my evening went much better from there! :thumbsup:

First thing I did was finish installing my heater box and controls. I’m excited to see how the heater works this winter now that the box has all new foam seals.
Next I finished greasing everything in the front suspension.
Then I filled the power steering pump with fluid and cycled the steering side to side several times to help bleed the system. Haven’t seen any leaks so that’s great!
I then got my wife to come out and help me set the toe.
I then installed the front sway bar. I’m super excited to see how the car drives and how much different it responds in the autox this weekend vs last year with no sway bar and the factory slow ratio manual steering!
After installing the sway bar, I decided “what the heck, let’s get the exhaust all hooked back up”.
After I had the exhaust buttoned up, I went ahead and drained the oil out of the transmission and put in fresh Redline MTL oil. The old stuff still had good viscosity but looked nasty! Kinda milky like.
HOPEFULLY my radiator hose coupler comes tomorrow and I’ll have to get a new heater hose and weld in one more bracket for the drivers seat, then I’ll be ready to take the car for a spin!! Definitely cutting it plenty close since Friday is the start of MoParty, but I’ll be ready!!