We have been busy the past couple of weeks, but we want to give a shout out to Deirdre and her dad Homer who let us borrow their engine lifter. We would have given them their props sooner, but we didn’t take any pictures of it til now. So here it is! It’s even pink! Thanks again! Hopefully we’ll be done with it soon.
And today, I finally got around to removing the whole engine and transmission. That thing is heavy as @#$%! It took a while to finally wiggle it out, and Andrew and Jackie helped a lot as well. I had to take off the hood and some really really greasy hardware near the very appropriately named oil pan. And the flywheel was pretty stubborn too. Sometime this week I’ll degrease it and start to disassemble it even more.
I found a lot of other little bits that we will need to replace like the U-joints and a few more gaskets I didn’t even know existed. But it’s OK, judging from all the oil everywhere, they probably weren’t doing much gasket-ing.
