The Lawn Dart

[Deceus]

Got everything back together tonight without much issue. Hoping the intake seals well as it was a little harder to do this time with the engine in the car and not having fresh clean surfaces to start with. Spent most of my time scraping the remnants of the old intake gasket off the heads and intake. Had to be careful and make sure nothing went into engine so I had to do it by hand. It seems I've lost my set screw that holds my throttle cable in the end piece on the carb so i didn't bother trying to fire it up yet. Fortunately I think Home Depot actually carries M4 set screws. I also need to get another jug of antifreeze since some of it wasn't useable. I think I had a bit of rust built up from filling and draining everything on the runstand and not hooking up my overflow tank right away. Hopefully it fires up without any issue tomorrow since it'll be a good day to take it for a cruise.

Gotta say, as frustrating as it can be to take 2 steps back more times than I care to count. It's really cool to be this fearless about a car. I wouldn't dare attempt something like this on either of my other vehicles but I wasn't going to bat an eye at removing my heads and stripping them down if I had to. There's really nothing on this car aside from the transmission that I'm not afraid to tear apart and fix ... which is good because next up I have to disassemble most of the front end and replace that k-member.