May 21-22, 2020. I spent a bit of time sanding out a few hundred little nicks in my paint. I'm not sure what caused them? Maybe dust storms? They are all over the sheet metal and are about 1/16th of an inch mostly. I've been trying to get the lower part of my doors perfect, which will never happen. I'm going to "rino line" everything below the lower body line anyway. I'll eventually get a set of the costly chrome trim that goes along that line to hide the line between the rino and regular paint.
I finally quit putting off checking out my "no start" condition. I used a fancy troubleshooting guide from autozone's web site. I must have smoked the electronic widget that is under the timing advance mechanism. I also needed a new cap and rotor. I decided to buy a complete replacement distributor from autozone ($135) with a lifetime warranty. The cap and rotor were $35 alone. I didn't price the electronic module. At any rate, it fired right up (after I connected the power wire).
The grill is about half painted, nice an shiny white.
Last edited by Rusty Rod; 05/23/20204:09 AM.
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