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Well, lots of work done with no time to blog here about it. The time I spend on PPOT is generally a few minutes in the AM when I'm having my coffee. The car is virtually finished now and hopefully will start and be running tomorrow, then off to the alignment shop while breaking in the new rings for 100 miles or so. I'll definitely post tomorrow when it starts. (Fingers crossed for no complications).

I'm going to fast-forward through the last month or so, lots of pics with small captions. When I left you last, I was cleaning off old sound pad material. I had quite a problem with the replacement sound material sold for the car, it was absolutely not similar in any way to the original stuff plus the pre-cut pieces did not remotely fit. We decided to source some raw material and just make my own pieces. Redbeard suggested McMaster-Carr on my separate sound pad thread and we ordered their urethane coated material. It is not exactly original looking, (a bit thicker), but nothing was going to be correct so we went with functionality for a good price. I'm very happy with it. Here it is installed:


About that time, the car was removed from its long hibernation and actually moved outside for the first time in many months:



The car was leveled as well as possible in preparation for the torsion bar/spring plate adjustments:




The rear T-bars wound-up needing a lot more adjustment for proper camber once the engine was installed but I needed to start somewhere and had to install transaxle. A fairly involved job was installing the rear wheel bearing carriers with new bearings and seals. Have a look at the schematic on these suckers: