To date, I have spent about half of my month's restoration budget. Not good, since I had done that by the fourth. Anyway, Sunday Mike and I went to the Webster Auto Swap over in Sumter County. I bought a new chrome valve cover and thermostat housing. Turns out the housing is wrong, so I'll trade it out for the correct one next swap meet.
Wednesday, I removed the fuel lines and cleaned out the steel ones. They seem to be ok. I bought new rubber line, since the old ones are all all rotten and cracked. I picked up another fuel filter as well. I also removed the carburetor (a Rochester Monojet) and messed with the choke valve. I'm going to have to fabricate some way to connect my choke cable to the valve linkage, since the Monojet is set up for an automatic choke mechanism.
I have made two observations. One being that I really need a garage. The second, and more troubling, is that every time I really spend time looking at or working on the truck, I discover that it's really worse than I thought.
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