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Been interesting times in Portland but the Mancini bolt kit is here so I can get back on reassembling the front of the engine. I've been working on a welding cart since I need to be able to haul the gas bottle around. Getting closer on that. Both the Honda and the Triumph motorcycles need a...

Back in town from a motorcycle trip, ordering more parts to keep any momentum going. Got the Mancini Racing timing set/water pump bolts as mine are really rough and I've already spent too much time trying to get a shoddy wire wheel from Lowes happy on my bench grinder to clean them up.

Fuel pump arrived, got some fuel line and it's all ready to get sorted out. In the meantime I cleaned up the corner of the garage I plan on using for metalworking so I can finish my welding cart: Sanded and repainted the timing cover. It's no longer "delete all my online accounts and run...

After struggling and using some bad words I've got the evap and fuel lines situated. I'm not happy with how it turned out but it'll be good enough for now. New fuel pump, fuel pump relay kit and other odds and ends have been ordered. (Yes I did snip off the tails on the zip ties :) )

Been slowly working on cleanup for the timing cover, it was in bad shape. I cleaned things up and knocked down lots of marring from previous people popping seals in and out. With Chevy orange I did a terrible job painting it and will need to try again: Probably the worst paint application...

Picked up some adel clamps to wrangle the lines where I want them. Will have to sort out a screw for the smaller size clamp for the evap line. The front seal on the timing cover was not interested in coming out without a long fight. Got it in the end and now the cover is ready for cleanup and...

These lines are a bit tricky to get into place. The engine side of things are fine but heading towards the back of the car things are rougher. Front, looking okay, loosely secured: Dogleg around the under side of the passenger seat. I don't know how to get a securing clip into the hole barely...

Fuel and evap lines removed. New evap line was a little different, it runs between the rear swaybar mount and the frame. I think that's what the bracket on the front underside of the frame rails are. But it got clipped into place. Removing the passenger side rear wheel and both rear shocks...

Every day I'm trying to do at least something in the garage related to the Duster. Today it was pulling the old fuel line out: The evap line is proving to be a bigger challenge. I looked at the factory service manuals real close and found there should be two screws holding the shield over...

Hughes Engines tech people got back to me, stating they aren't seeing a way to put a mechanical fuel pump on with the current timing setup. Side note: their email support was super helpful even though I haven't bought anything from them! :thumbsup: But this puts me at a crossroads: people with...

Asking Hughes Engines if their extended cam bolt setup can let me add the fuel pump eccentric. Specifically this one: https://www.manciniracing.com/huencabowa.html . If other folks have thoughts I'd love to hear them. Hoping for a street duty fun machine, but fueling seems to be a tougher...

And here's where I'm at tonight. Now to get advice on how to add a fuel pump eccentric to the shebang. :)

New fuel and evap lines show up in a couple days. Got the water pump pulled off, yanking the timing cover next to see what I have to work with for adding the fuel pump eccentric. All my coolant hoses are toast, gonna be replacing those while I'm in here. And probably the water pump because why not.

I've recently escaped spending all my spare time doing nerd stuff on a computer and am back on the Duster as a way to keep my sanity during these interesting times, The hack job I did on the fuel delivery system back in high school has not survived the test of time. I ran braided line from the...

Makin' progress. More garage work done. Ramps stored on the walls to free up space. Network equipment no longer precariously balanced in a window sill. Also got my desktop wired with cat5e again instead of a flaky USB wifi adapter. Every phone jack in the house is a home run with cat5e so...