Well, if at first you don't succeed, try 500 more times. It feels like I've had the turbo off 150 times this weekend. The bad news is that I still have not completed the oil drain. The good news is that I think I have a path forward. I also have all the other lines fit.
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I ended up reclocking the turbo yet again so that that instead of coming out the back with the oil drain, it's now coming roughly out the bottom. Bottom line is that to use the AN fittings, there was just never enough hose between them to make the dogleg to the drain in the valley pan. The fittings only left about 2" of hose between them. Just no way to make that bend. So I reclocked and tried to fit hard line in there. Nope. Not enough give to make it. So I finally found heater hose fittings and figured out that I THINK I can get a piece of hose from turbo to drain. Great. Unfortunately the drain adapter I made is threaded for -10 ORB which means I need to either buy the special fitting or remake the drain adapter. I think I'll have time to remake the fitting and that will make it use something pretty standard.
If you look around in that pic, you will see the fuel pressure gauge is installed.
At this point, I'm grinding to a bit of a hault on the engine front because I can't finalize and bang things down until I get the trans back in. I'll make that call tomorrow to get an ETA.
So I started running around and putting bolts in holes so I can figure out what hardware I'm still missing. I need to get myself a paint pen or something so I can start going through and torquing stuff that's finger tight and mark it. I'll never keep track otherwise especially if I have to keep jumping around.
So I started digging out the core support stuff. Luckily, I think I found all of it.
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Here's some of it. Conveniently, I wrote on the one piece it goes on the passenger side. [emoji6] I still have the rusty one to look at. You can see these are fairly clean. Mainly just dirty. I gave them a quick blast to clean them up trying to leave the zinc on them as much as possible. Then primed them.
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So I've got stuff to paint. I'll probably mix up some enamel with hardener for these bits. Few more to do. Need to figure out if I'm going to refurb the bolts and clips or just clean them up. Once these are done I'll be ready for front sheet metal. Need to epoxy prime the fenders and such before I install them though.