last weekend's progress.

["Davis" <martin-davis@xxxx>]

 Ok,
during the week I took out the gastank. Sanded it and painted it 
with SEM rust controll. I emptied it out and let it air out. Saturday 
I spend most of the day going from store to store to find fittings 
for my 1/2 inch fuel line and special coated 5/16 tranny line, and 
the right U joint for my newly shortened driveshaft. couldn't find 
anything but the U joint, that will be in somtine today. Bill gave me 
the shortened driveshaft, all welded up looks good. 
so we got back to the Gremlin and got the starter and header 
installed, what a pain, and I have the mini starter. I also finished 
installing the traction bars. We installed the MSD distributor. I had 
the wrong wire ends so I got new ends and Bill changed them over. 
Sunday I brought my tank, 1/2" alum. fuel line and my original fuel 
pick up to Bill's and we looked into where to install the new line. 
No room on the pickup so I decided to put it in the tank with a bung. 
Went to home depot, they didn't have the right 1/2" fittings. Went to 
Nappa they had the correct fittings in a box of fittings not put out 
yet. We used a 1/2" tubing bender and bent up a piece to go inside 
the tank. Then I washed the tank out again, drilled the hole for the 
brass fiting and rinsed it out again. Used red silicone sealer when 
installing the fitting. Off to my house.
We put the tranny cross member in and Bill figured out what to 
fabricate for a mount. It will be a solid 2" chunk of aluminium. 
I cleaned under the car where the tank goes and painted it SEM rust 
controll black. I removed the original fuel line, vapor line and 
return lines. Installed the gas tank. Ran a new starter wire, mounted 
the MSD pro coil, installed the oil fill tube. We figured out the 
best place to mount the holley Blue fuel pump and mounted that. Then 
we installed the new CE 3 way adjustable rear drag shocks. Plumed 
the fuel pump to the gas tank. Bill took my holley 650 Dp home to 
rebuild. 
So I got alot done but I still have a long ways to go. I start work 
tomorrow after being out since nov. So in a couple of weeks I will 
have more $ for the gremlin but no time. I am hoping to fire it up in 
2 weeks. 
Thanks for reading my long post. 
Davis