Bulldozer

Susan, started refering to my grace in the garage with the affectionate term "Bulldozer", since nothing is getting in my way. My memory was that it is an eight hour job to pull the body. Unfortunantly, my body removal notes weren't updated to reflect that I had left the bolts in the bottom of the convertible top well, bolted to the roll bar mounting pads. These eight bolts and my impatience will probably set me back another 3 or 4 hours of fiberglass repair time to fix the hole I blew in the rocker right in front of the rear tire well. Did I say I was going to have Eagleton drop the painted body back on the chasis? That was decided before this snafu.



Other than grabbing a neighbor to help me for 10 minutes to take out the 8 body bolts in the tub, it was a six hour solo job to disconnect everything and lift the body. It was about two more hours lifting the body, expanding my vocabulary, pulling out the chassis, dropping the body on the rotisserie frame, and rolling the chassis back under the lift.



Between work in the garage I talked with Cody at AAA Auto Salvage (http://www.aaaautosalvage.com/) in Quinlan, Texas and ordered up a L33 Aluminum block 327 LS motor and a two wheel drive 4L60 to mate to it. With the holiday, they won't get it on a truck until Monday or Tuesday, so it likely won't hit the truck depot in Buena Park until after the 4th. I'm getting a full drop-out package with harness, computer, gas pedal (throttle by wire) and accessories. The L33 is a baby LS6, a few cubic inches smaller, but the same great flowing heads. Plan is to mill the heads and put a a Carolina Auto Masters (http://www.carolinaautomasters.com/) designed cam and corresponding tune in it, get 400 crank HP, and call it done.





Despite the ouch, did achieve the day's goal of body off the chassis.