Yesterday I got back to work on the green Ranger. Undid about everything that I had tried to do Wednesday because I was second guessing it all. Bent another bit of 5/8” aluminum tube for the heater lines because what had originally cleared everything suddenly didn’t when I tried to set the upper intake down without a rag across the lower intake (I didn’t think it was that much thicker than the gasket) and I started to kink the tube trying to get it to clear. So after bending tubing for the nth time, redoing the clamps again and some other tweaks, the upper intake is finally bolted down. Still have to connect just about everything back up.
Oh, and the coil pack bracket that I had previously clearanced doesn’t fit anymore and my grinding wheel has wandered off somewhere. My Milwaukee M18 grinder, cutting disks, grinding wheel, and cup brush I’ve been keeping all together because I keep using them on this project and I don’t want to lose anything. Everything is there but the grinding wheel. I should have some spares around here but so far can’t locate them. I know I have a bag of that stuff with my corded grinders at my buddy’s garage in town but I was trying to avoid having to run up there for just that. Sooo frustrating. I was pretty irritable last night. Need my damn garage up so all of this stuff can live in one place.