Well... Lots of iron's in the fire. I really gotta learn to do one thing at a time because I never seem to get anything done!
Today is my last night for school before summer break. That gives me a solid week to try and get progress made on many fronts. The goal for this waggy is to get the fuel injection installed and functional. Then hopefully finish the stereo stuff. To that end I have been making slow progress on the sub box. Fiberglass is proving to be both expensive and slow! I have pretty much completed the inside/back portion of the box. Now all that's left is cutting the MDF for the sub and working on the front part.
As far as the fuel injection, I went by a couple muffler places yesterday to try and find someone to weld in the O2 bung. Midas and Mineke were swamped and wanted 50-80$ to do it. I started to think I'd have to just go down to ft Carson and do it myself until I ran across a small muffler shop. What caught my eye was this beautiful restored CJ in their tiny parking lot.
I go in and they had a ZJ on the lift. I ask the guy how much he'd charge to weld in a bung and he looks at me. Then he looks at my shirt and says "You in the military?". Yessir... Army Reserves now. He says "Awesome, pull it inside". I ask again how much since I don't have money to spare and didn't want him to do it and then charge me something crazy like $100.
He points at the wall which is full of memorabilia from soldiers and says "Your money is no good here".
Spend a while talking to them and eventually the bung got welded in. Yea! While they were working I went next door and bought them some cold cokes at 7-eleven. While looking around the waiting room I saw something that made me chuckle. A small toy of the very first new bicycle I ever owned.
It said coke on it so I guess it's part of some collector series or something. I gotta find one of those someday.
Walter seemed to like the attention.
I had planned to start on Walter today but I'm not gonna have time. One of the kids at school asked me if I could tow his truck back to his house today. Have to unload the trailer and help him out.
With the bung in, my only other concern is the gear on the distributor. I had hoped to park Walter and set him to TDC. Pull the dizzy and take it to school to swap gears. Hopefully I can do it without being at school.
From there it will be just a matter of installing everything else. Hopefully all goes well and I can be done by Sunday. I'd like to spend most of the week getting my storage unit squared away.