Now for another funny story. I had the engine back in and fired it up. Felt so great to have it running again! Jumped in the car to pull it out of the garage to let the car get some fresh air and finally a wash after months of dust collecting. Wouldn't go into gear. Some pondering and forum searching later, I realized i put the clutch disc in backwards. DOH!!!!
So i pulled the motor once more (in about 90 minutes this time). Flipped the clutch around and had the motor in again in another hour or so. Finally drove the beast and have put around 300 miles on it since. So far, the motor is running damn good. Smooth, feels strong, just feels good.
Whew. Thanks for reading my thread. I obviously left out a million details as to the experience, but I think I've taken up enough bandwidth lol.
