Marching on...

Big evening tonight. No soccer game, so I hammered until 12:30am.

Torque convertor is bolted to the flywheel, exhaust is hooked up, A/C Condenser and radiator are in, fan and shroud, upper and lower radiator hoses, belts, and various odds and ends.

Then, I marked the distributor and pulled it, replacing it with pre-luber I rented from O'Reilly. A frustrating search for the chuck key for my drill followed, and then the fun began: priming the oil system.

I pulled the valve covers, and used a funnel to get about three quarts of oil into the engine (there was already a quart in the pan, plus a half a quart in the filter), then I hit the drill. Oil pressure shot to 60 instantly, and then I let it run. I was waiting for oil to start oozing from all the pushrods. I'm happy to say that all but three were flowing freely before the drill started to smoke.

13 of 16 ain't bad, and the three left were bubbling, so they were about to start flowing. I decided to not melt the drill or start a fire, and stopped. Distributor went back in, and the valve covers back on.

Tomorrow (well, today, it's late), I have to pick up a single bolt for the starter, hook up the electrical, fill it with water, and start it.

Yee-fucking-Haw.