Spent a good 4 or 5 hours on the end of the orbital sander in the weekend getting off all the glue squeeze and the bigger high spots in preparation for board sanding. I haven't finished yet, I'm guessing there is another hour or 2 to go. From there its board sanding. That will probably occupy all of this coming Saturday.
Its taking a while, but it looks pretty good. I have found a area on the chine up toward the bow where it dips away a bit. I will need to do a bit of filling and fairing before starting the next layer.
The engines diet continues. Tonight I took the torque converter off. I thought that was going to be a tough job, but it turned out to be pretty easy. I then tried to fit the new bell housing but the exhaust manifolds foul. So off they came as well. Was planning on leaving them on until I could get the new manifolds but never mind.
So now nothing fouls the bell housing, but the old bolts are too short so I gave up on that.
The engine wiring harness is looking pretty good. I have got all the unused wiring out, and labelled up the things I am not certain off. All of the tape on the loom is stuffed, as is the rubber tubing that a lot of the loom was in. I am going to have to replace that with something. Its on the to do list.
I still have a large number of wires to sort out, these are ones that go into the computer, but don't come from the engine. I have quite a few drawings and things seem to match up so its looking ok.
I'll try and remember to take some pictures during the day in the weekend
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