Dang, it's been May since I last posted. A lot has happened, but not necessarily on the truck. I got my shop built, set up and truck moved in.
I started cleaning the inside of the cab a bit, trying to get the surface rust cleaned up. I don't want to strip it down to bare metal and have to paint it right now. I'm just using scotch-brite pads and CLR. It's working ok.
I picked up a new gas tank a few days ago and started running the new fuel lines today. I wanted to use the original tank but while cleaning it up I found a lot more pin-holes than I originally saw so I decided to go ahead and get a new tank. I found that the fuel pump in the older 216 engine is located differently than on the 235 that is supposed to be in the truck. The fuel lines were pre-bent for the 235, obviously. I think I'm going to just have to use some fuel hose line to get it to marry-up correctly.
So that's about it, not a lot of progress but not at a stand-still either.
