Last night Mark and I removed both the block and transmission (Standing-in-engine-bay pictures coming soon!). My previous post stated that I think cleaning up the engine bay is going to be the worst part, but after looking over everything it’s not going to be too bad. Almost half of the bay is covered in black insulation, so really I only have to paint the other half (Fortunately that half doesn’t have too many hoses and wires either!)

Yesterday I ordered a new exhaust header, bolts, O2 bolts, clutch slave rebuild kit, flywheel bolts, rod bolts and nuts, and main crankshaft bolts. Today my crankshaft hopefully will arrive at O’Reilly. I believe my last part purchase will be connecting rods. I’m sure there are some hoses and vacuum lines that need to be replaced, but i’ll deal with that as I come to it.