Vacation is over back to work.

Me and the wife spent a couple of days on Catalina Island. It was a good time to get away from the truck. I was having a little trouble staying motivated. I get to the point I can't see past the little problems long enough to make any progress. I've got to walk away for a day or to when that happens. Cleaning up the garage helps too. My only intention today was to go clean up the garage. I didn't clean much before ideas started popping into my head. I think I have figured out how I an going to set up my throttle now. I'm going to use a cable. Would have liked to have figured out a linkage instead. But I have faith that my cable will perform nicely. I am going to fab up some brackets so I can keep my stock pedal. Today I also got my choke and fuel lines done. I've got my glass bowl fuel filter in. Looks good. Wish I had taken a picture to share. The fuel filter I have is not unique in its form. You can order then at any parts store. But my is "distressed". It's got probably 40 years of wear on it that you can't really fake. I like the patina. I like that back then parts didn't get thrown away. Instead they were rebuilt. Hardly anything on newer cars is fixed. It's just replaced. My other progress of the day was my clutch pivot. Ups brought me the correct ball and spring. So now there is nothing keeping me from getting my transmission in. Still looking forward to starting her up. All these little things make a big difference though. I like to let ideas ferment a day or two before I start building anything custom. For example, as I was typing this I just realized a great place to put my throttle return spring. I was planning on attaching it directly to my carb because that's the common method. But I wasn't happy with the size spring I would have to use. A short spring can be strong enough but would not be very smooth. Instead I will use a spring on the bracket I will be making connect my accelerator pedal rod to the cable. There will be much more room there. I don't know. I'll let that one stew till tomorrow. Also I started fiddling with my $50 welder. It's an Astro PowerMIG 130. I need some new tips. I'm not sure how well it will run flux core but I'm sure I will find out soon. Maybe tomorrow.