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Well it wasn't the committed weekend that I wanted, but some work did get done on the car so that's better than nothing I guess.

I decided to use ordinary construction adhesive to "glue" my hood skin to my stamped hood frame in the spots where there was originally a seam sealer of sorts which sets the height of the hood skin in relation to the stamped frame on the underside.

To do this I decided to use a pair of saw horses as support bunks and a wheel/tire as a weight to offer some downward pressure on the stamped frame as the adhesive sets up.



Here's a shot of the new rear bumper with most of the hardware transferred over to it from the old bumper.



Here's my best worker running the 90 degree angle die grinder with sanding pads inside the engine bay.









The exhaust manifolds are off.

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I will cut that shaft out of the manifold and plug the 2 holes it went through as part of my manifold refurb.

I'm really glad I pulled the manifolds, I did have an exhaust leak that sounded like hell under the hood before and I was also getting a bit of a coolant smell from a minor coolant leak on one side that was burning on the exhaust manifold. I see that I was missing one of the special long reach manifold nuts on both manifolds. So I'll be ordering a fastener kit for these along with my gaskets.