With the seats in, and the engine assembled as far as we can get it, all that was left was to hook up the wires for the temp and oil sensors on the engine, the plug on the distributor, and a few other odds and ends. I had already hooked wires up to the oil and temp gauges and routed the wires out through the firewall to the engine in preparation for when I did get everything together so I can finish the hookup of those wires. I had to crimp the terminals on the wire ends to hook them up so with that, I was able to hook things up once and for all. As is usual, I always have to run into some kind of hurdle. The hurdle in this case is the fact that the metal port at the back of the engine that holds the oil pressure sensor is 1/4" NPT thread and the thread on the oil sensor that came with the gauge is 1/8" NPT. While this is minor due to the fact that I need a 1/4"-1/8" NPT bushing, when one doesn't have said bushing in hand, it goes from a minor inconvenience to a full blown hurdle since I can't screw in the oil pressure sensor to finalize the hookup. So for now, I just have the oil pressure sensor sitting on standby on the intake with the plug attached to the wire so when I do finally get a bushing in place I can just screw everything together and plug it all up. For right now I just have the wire hooked up to supply power to the distributor. In the future I will hook up a tach which will of course require another wire routed through the firewall to the distributor. That will of course be well into the future. Another thing that I wanted to take care of is covering up the carb port on the intake so water and/or other foreign matter doesn't end up in the intake ports. I also covered up the thermostat port since I still need to install a thermostat and its housing. Again, these things are part of the next and hopefully final installment of the work on this car. After getting all the other final stuff done that was directly related to getting the car more complete, I took a few moments to clean up in and around the car. I cleaned out the bed of different material as well as some other little parts such as the emblems, which still need to be attached, but won't be until some body work is taken care of. I also had the old plastic seat bases from the original seats, which obviously aren't needed so I may as well see if I could sell them. Only other option is tossing them out. I also took time to clean out the interior, removing the containers of extra parts I had and combining other containers of parts and hardware into one container. Most of this hardware will probably not be used as its just random nuts and bolts and the like. All of the minute assembly that needs to be done has pretty much been done, now its a matter of getting the bigger things addressed on the outside of the car. With the interior done I don't need as much of this extra shit. The stuff that needs addressing are the brakes and suspension, will not require little bitty sheet metal screws and the like. I'll probably clear out more of this shit when I do get around to messing with the car again after I get more parts. Hell, most of the hardware I need for the brakes and suspension are either already in place or will need to be replaced due to their uniqueness, such as the hollow bolts for holding the brake line to the calipers on the front disc brakes. Until then, the Elco is put back onto the back burner so we can focus on one of the other cars, most likely the DOB, since I need to run this thing and tune it, do a final check on the brakes, then put the truck through some heavy test driving to confirm its functionality before I drive it back to its owner.
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