This was the second consecutive weekend of working on the car again after the long bathroom remodel hiatus. There were a number of Gilligan's Island three hour tours, finishing up reinstalling the radiator, replacing the power steering reservoir with one that the hood can close over, securing the 5.3L truck fuel rails on the LS1 intake, and even replacing the battery - new optima has a different top than the old one.
One successful modification was rev 2.0 of the transmission shift linkage arm. This has been done for months, but the dead battery restricted testing. Mutt successfully traversed from the lift to the driveway, engaged park for a well needed interior vacuum, and moved back to the lift under it's own power.
The power steering reservoir was a rev 3.0 - the original bracket for the old LT1 reservoir that ended up not fitting, then rev 2.0 and 2.5 for the new one prior to installing hoses, and a final rev 3.0 with the hosed installed. Fortunately, it's a simple bracket from a piece of .090 gauge aluminum with four holes and a couple mild bends.
The next fabrication is for the air intake. I've been struggling with that one - how to make the transition from one side of the radiator support to the other - with the larger track to the new LS MAF, the tubing is too close to the radiator to use a nice manderal bend. The solution looks to be to make a nice box for the transition with a tubular inlet, a radiused corner across from the inlet, and a transition on the adjacent side to a tubular exit. I'll fab it up this week and get someone to weld it up for me to solve this dillema.
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