Excellent! When I do this I will probably start a separate thread. In the meantime, I've started doing some research and will pick up my head in a couple days. I really wish I had kept the manifold ;/
So, today was a three steps back day. And zero steps forward.
First, I work on the AMC 20 Torx Bolts. I decide to try my manual impact driver, except I can't find my T40 bits that fit the thing. So I crawl under, take a wire wheel and clean the bolt heads and around them. (Someone saved what was left of the frame with some sort of underspray). Then I dripped some Kroil on it and smacked the bolts around to try to loosen them.
Gave up on that and decided I should fire it up. It hadn't run it maybe five months or six months now. I pulled the battery from my Wrangler, hooked it up - dropped some fuel in the carb, and tried to get it to run. It sort of did. For some reason my 100% awesome suckage from my fuel tank after replacing rotten softlines and a new fuel sender, decided to drop to about 45% suckage. According to the clear fuel filter that went from filling 100% up to filling less than half.
So I crawl under and followed the lines to see if I had missed anything. Nope. Checked the hookups and wires to the fuel sender. Looked legit.
And then the second step back showed itself.
I've installed my NP208 four times now. Because since I took it off to replace a bearing in the transmission, I have not been able to get a good seal between the two. This last time, I sanded both surfaces, tossed the new gasket, and Red RTV'd the hell out of it.
Now, six months later. It's leaking. Very, very slowly. It's been slowly filling the cross member up below it. So I never noticed until now when it looked wet.
Great. Add that back onto the list.
So, the lines looking fine, I unhook my return line from the new fuel filter I added -after- the pump. And plug it. Cause its the only thing that's changed since it ran before.
Same thing.
In disgust, I rehook my return line - and noticed my third step back - my radiator decided to leak some coolant on the top edge. Really, wtf?
Add that to the list as well.
Stinkin' thing is falling apart.