Well Norm, here it is.

I got the last of the pods in. These are the fresh air recirc ones in front of the heater core. I then got the heater core back in. It was really tough getting it lined up properly so all three pipes would fit well enough to start the bolts. It was also kind of tedious getting all the rubber stripping in place.

I had taken lots of stuff loose to get at the heater core including the cross brace, which I really didn't need to loosen and some stuff to the left of the HVAC box in order to gain access to the heater pipe clips. They had to be loosened in order to move the three pipes enough to get the heater core out.

Jim Yuhn said it would be easier to just pull the HVAC box and he might have been right except I just don't want to disturb my perfectly tight evaporator. I THINK that I could have pulled the box and even replaced the evaporator in the same amount of time, not counting r/d replacement, evac and recharge. Also my R12 recovery machine is not working so I would have had to break the law and vented it. I just won't do that.

The left side of my center vent had come apart, so I managed to get all the pieces in place. Now I have to decide whether to try and put on the instrument panel with the vent in place, or try to put the vent in the instrument panel first.

Tomorrow night I will give everything a really good looking over and glue something on the defrost lever to make it work with one tab broken. That one is hard plastic. The tabs in all the others are pliable plastic and I didn't break any of those. Luckily this one is easy to get to. Even if it breaks later I can get pretty good access through the glove box opening.

I will get the defrost lever fixed up tomorrow and let the JB weld cure overnight. That means I will take a break tomorrow night except for that and if I find anything else I need to do before going back on with the panel.

If I ever have to do this over again, I'm going to cut a deal with Jim Yuhn. I'll do an overhaul on his engine if he'll do my instrument panel.

My squirrel cage fan blowing through the passenger compartment is helping a LOT. Having the car up on the lift with the door opening waste high is helping alot too. There are a lot of things that are just more convenient to do standing next to the car rather than crawling inside. I have not yet had to work while standing on my head.

End of episode,