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I've always envied people with acetylene torches who can heat and remove rusted fasteners with ease. Changing out rear sway bar bushings, with somewhat limited access to the top bolt that wouldn't budge with PB Blaster and arm power. Today I tried my Harbor Freight Butane Micro torch. Costs about $13 when on sale and waddayaknow... 2000 1760 degrees (?) of butane heat alternating with PB Blaster and it did the trick. May not be enough heat to conquer ball joint rust issues here in the northeast but It gives a real fine tip of concentrated heat to the flame and I will keep it in mind when working in close quarters near rubber bushings etc.

3500 RPMs is just getting to the powerband. And it's fine to cruise at those RPMS If you need more power up the hills, use lower gears and let the engine rev out at a light throttle, rather than using a higher gear and having to struggle even with throttle wide open. It can take 4500 all day.

Oh.....think we have lost you now

It is a pain to get those wires through the rubber. Attach a piece of dental floss (I am a retired dentist ) to one broken end of the shortest piece and pull the broken wire back out of the gaiter. Make the splice connection and then reattach and use the floss to pull the spliced wire back through and connect to the other side.

yes, relay is under dash to left of steering column, in a bracket that holds 4 relays. It will be the one with a big fat Green/white wire in it. Not sure but I think it's a Blue connector. The pushbutton cassette only has 2 sets of contacts. 1 that closes at any position other than "off" that activates the power to the fan. the other set is for the A/C "on" All the other switching of blend doors and such is done with vacuum, not electronics. The dropping resistor that controls fan speed is in the air duct above passenger feet. That resistor controls the GROUND side of the fan wires.

Alright boys, last update for a little while on the engine, waiting on parts to arrive and attempting to find a decent oil pump and TRYING to find new cylinder head nuts for it, someone decided to clean the garage while i was at work and now i'm missing 3 head nuts and washers, in any case...i'll be stripping down the suspension and driveline here in the next few weeks so i'll post pics of that, in the mean time...here is the current status of the engine, mostly assembled.