I have been doing other things that I have to do. My shop has an 8N tractor project in it that I reseated the valves and new carb to get it running. I got it with a blown head gasket. The main tractor is about 1/2 painted, everything works on it now. I also have my hardtail project on the lift in there. Mt 2500 Chevy is blocking the door with no transmission in it or gas tank. I took that apart then broke my wrist. Then this summer I spent catching up on things I had to get done that I couldn't do while my wrist was healing. My boss/friend gave my an 86 Dodge 250 Royal pick up and I spent some time on that so I could drive it. Junked to us for a blown engine and he gave me another 360 that I pulled out of a dump truck. Then when I went to swap engines I took the radiator cap off to start draining the coolant and noticed the rubber gaskets were gone so I replaced that and started driving it. It had a minor ignition issue that I fixed too. It ran OK but wanted to stall at idle. I bought an HEI distributor for it but found out it fit but I couldn't turn it to set the timing without cutting away part of the intake manifold. Turned out the gaps were wrong on the pick ups so I set them and been driving it ever since. I only got the HEI because Dodge in those days use the antiquated ballast resistor set up and the ignition modules were not very good. I may have HEI in my future. The truck in pretty clean inside and out no rust except above one rear wheel and has cap and bed liner. I want to clean the frame of the chevy before I put the tranny and gas tank back in. That truck isn't rotted either, it's a 96. Sorry for the long reply but just got logged back in after the computer crash.

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