So I'm done with work. Maybe a bit of a story about that sometime later. In the meantime, let's stick to the car.

Again, the weather has conspired against me and I haven't had as much opportunity as I would like to work on the car. We had another snowstorm two days ago (OK, more of a sleet/ice storm) and it has been too cold to even work in the garage. My architect was here today measuring household dimensions in anticipation of plans he will be drawing up for some work on our house, including a new 3 car garage with workshop. Unfortunately, I don't think the construction will be completed in time to be highly relevant to this particular project. Oh well, planning for the future.

Mostly, the work I have gotten done in the past week or so has been more grunt-variety dirty work. I have gotten one of the front wheelwells mostly scraped of undercoat (they are bigger than the rears), and the big achievement for this afternoon was removing the gas tank. Yes, all the rubber collars, seals, bushings, etc. in my car are completely shot, as I had feared. The lack of solid rubber seals on the gas tank were probably contributing to some of the "gas smells" in the passenger compartment. They certainly weren't helping.

The good news on the tank is that it isn't too rusty. OK, it does have some surface rust, but peering inside with a flashlight, it doesn't look bad. Some grit and varnish-crud in there, I will get a tank treatment and clean it. The worst area is the filler neck. Quite a bit of surface rust in there. I don't think it merits the full-on gas tank sealer treatment, though. If people know otherwise, please tell me.

The fuel cock looks like hell and definitely needs to get rebuilt. There was some leaking at the junction between fuel cock and tank, and the gas seepage over the years, combined with road tar and undercoat, formed a nice goo that I had to spend about 1/2 hour scraping off the bottom of the tank. Helped preserve it though!

Now that the gas tank is out, it is easier to look at the front suspension members (torsion bar tube, sway bar, tie rods, steering box, etc). They are all very greasy. A combination of gas, grease, undercoat, and road muck combined in a sticky black mess that will be a pain to clean but it needs at least some attention. I mean, it is sometimes hard to make out individuals nuts and bolts because they are so caked with crud! Pictures will follow.

Tomorrow I should have a bunch of time for the car. I'm going to hopefully finish scraping all relevant undercoating. If I get that done, I'm going to work on gauge removal, and then I may return to attack the door frames once again.