Test drove last night, ran and drove great!
I did notice a few things though...
Fuel gauge wasnt working, on either tank. It was pretty low when I parked it and now pugged out full so somethings going on. I figure it's gotta be under the dash, I haven't messed with the tanks yet.
I checked the wiring diagram, trans/gauges fuse supplies power and theres nothing before the selector switch that could affect both tanks indication.
I checked and the fuse was good, dang it. The dash has to come apart (again!). Just put it back together last night, and it seems like every time I touch it another piece of plastic breaks. At this point there are no longer any plastic supports intact behind the instrument panel, and the surrounding dash is getting worse every time I touch it. sigh...
I looked at the back of the selector switch and it seemed good. I wiggled it a bit and nothing changed.
I happened to mess with the wiring behind the guages, and the fuel indicator swept beck to near empty. Hmmm... loose wire maybe? I also noticed the GEN lamp flickering while I was digging around. I continued fiddling with stuff and narrowed it down to the pigtail on the back of the gauge assembly. I unplugged it to check for loose wires, but then noticed a loose pin on the gauge. Oh, thats not good.
I pulled the guage and took it to the bench. The pins appear to be crimped in, and have loosened up. Almost all of them have some play.

I don't feel like taking the gauge apart right now, and I'm not sure if I have the right stuff to tighten the crimps anyways. I try my hand at soldering the pins to the traces.
I need to get a finer tip for my solder iron, but I managed to goober some solder on them.
Some are better than others, but at least there not wiggling around anymore.
Put it all back together and it's working again. Yay!
Except I was doing a light check later and the RH turn indicator is inop. Dang it! I was able to reach it by only partially removing the forward dash cover and squeeze my arm in. I pulled the bulb, it looked fine. I wiggled the base around a bit with no change. Then I wiggled the pigtail. I got the light to work by tweaking the pigtail a bit, but it looks like there are loose pins there as well. Oh well, it's good enough for now, I'm not taking the dash back apart again for that.
Next is sway bar frame bushings. Mine are toast and I could hear them banging around on my test drive.
I have a set of energy suspension bushings I got from Applied. The instructions say to remove the end links and slide them over the swaybar, but I don't have new end links on hand and am not dealing with those just yet.
As you can see, the replacement bushings have a split and will stretch over the swaybar.....
So on they go. They were much easier than I expected.
Sunset a couple nights ago...
