I couldn't stand it any longer. I just had to pull the engine. This was Saturday morning. The intent was to get it out of the truck. Check. Take the tranny off. Check. Put the engine in the back of Heavy D. Houston, we have a problem. OK, so it seems that I managed to sheer off three of the four bolts that hold one of the casters on the engine crane while performing this task. Happened once before and clearly the bolts I used were cheapo crappo. So I tucked the engine up against the front of the frame, which gave me plenty of room to close the garage door. At least a half an inch to spare. I figured I'd go to Lowes and pick up a few grade 8 bolts to fix the caster, which I did on Sunday morning. But then it decided to rain. Not fun loading an engine in the truck in the rain, so there it sits, on the floor of my garage.
Since it was raining, I decided to take a closer look at the driver's firewall/floor. Pulled the last of the carpet that was still stuck to the kick panel and firewall, revealing - that's right - more rust than I thought was there. It doesn't really change my plans at all, just a little more metal to cut out.
Sunday we're hosting a getaway luncheon for Diane's family reunion that is this weekend, so nothing is going to get done before next week. Oh well.
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