All parts needed for now are here and we're moving along quickly to engine start

We've now finally received the brakes we've been waiting for and got the incorrect drive shaft yoke problem sorted out. There have been many things done since the last post but several of the larger ones were:

• Steve has been plugging away at getting the wiring all sorted out and hooked up. We're trying to get done what's needed to start the engine up.
• Exhaust. Spent a lot of time getting the exhaust fitted and ready to go. I think we are mostly finished all but a few final things we'll need to do when we put on the body. Hoping that everything is tight and there are no leaks. Friend Bob helped a lot on the exhaust.
• Drive shaft. We had a problem where the yoke supplied wouldn't fit into the rear housing of the transmission. What we found was we had a wrong yoke and also a bad rear housing bushing. Somewhat frustrating but all worked out now. Drive shaft is now installed.
• Finish fuel line. Got the fuel line finished and looking good with help in cutting the braided line from my neighbor Jim, aka the tool guy. He's a life saver when we have a tool problem. So we have the fuel line now in place. I changed the carburetor lines over to a stainless look.
• Fluids. Filled the radiator with anti freeze and water mixture 50/50. Also put in the transmission fluid but made a mistake in doing that. Didn't read the instruction : ( It says engine should be running. I put in 7 qts without the engine running and the yoke not installed. Got some transmission fluid on the floor to clean up, but once the yoke was installed all was well, at least for now.
• Parts. I'm the head parts guy and it seems like I'm either making a parts run each day or ordering them online or both. Hope we're getting near the end of this.

I'm kind of getting anxious to start the engine, which will be a good bench mark on the build for us.

This is the rear tranny housing with the yoke in it. The yoke is the Y shaped thing at the top, which will hook to the drive shaft, it has a shaft on it going down into the rear housing, that wouldn't fit initially.

I changed out the coupling attached to the carburetor to a more chrome look.

 The braided fuel line we made ended up being a little too long so I needed to route it differently to not look so bulky up in the engine compartment..

              Rear tranny housing re-installed here ready for the drive shaft.

 Neighbor Jim has a really neat tool for flaring lines. Here he's helping me with flaring the fuel line I shortened to take up some of the extra amount of line in the engine compartment.

 
Here is the new and improved fuel lines in the engine compartment. The silver covering you see is just there to protect the painted firewall from being scratched. We'll take all of that off when we're ready for prime time.

Here's the drive shaft hooked up to the tranny. You can see a little bit of the yoke sticking out. The thing sticking up out of the tranny is the gear shifter. This is a 4 speed auto with overdrive.

                        Here's where the drive shaft is attached to the rear end.