Fancy screws!
For holding that lumpy bit on the bottom of there.
Another fine piece of work by the phosphoric acid! Bit of etch primer'll see that right.
Not sure how this ever worked... 
Maybe I don't have the alternator
bolted on correctly? ...but I think all the brackets are in the right
place. I'll deal with it later. It needs a different pulley anyway;
the one that's on there is for -- as best I can tell -- a Z section
belt (10mm), and the truck takes an A section (13mm) belt.
But I don't remember it being that far off before, and it never tossed/flipped the belt. Hm. Hopefully I've just got something assembled wrong.
Ah, so it was sky blue underneath the army standard gloss!
Scrub, sand, etch-prime, grey primer, realise I painted the whole lot of it and the mating faces need to be bare metal, sand off the mating faces (durability testing of the etch primer, y'see.), and oops it just fell on.
And now, a brief time-travel interlude...
If you'd just step into this police-box for a moment... no, it's okay, it's bigger on th... yes, quite. Anyway, if you'll just step into the police-box, you'll see the state of the flywheel back in 2019...
Quite grim, wouldn't you say? Anyway, if... 'scuse me... if you step back outside again...
Freshly resurfaced -- please pay no attention to the DA sander lurking
just out of shot... I said, pay no attention to the sander behind the
curtain -- and looking pretty good! 
ahem
A very light clean-up with a 60-grit disc on the DA shows it to be in
much better condition than it first appeared. The dark ring is
noticeable under the fingers, but certainly not bad enough to warrant
machine-work to the flywheel. I think a new clutch will bed in just
fine on that. I've got a line on a new friction disc, and a NOS
release bearing, so I'm pretty sure I can make this work. 
And I also managed to confirm that -- somehow -- when I added additional timing marks (10, 15, 20, 25 BTDC) to the flywheel, I got them in about the right place. So that's nice!
Next is:
- Waiting on my next paycheck to land.
Lots of things to buy... engine oil, spark-plugs, plug
terminals, thermostat, and other assorted bits. - Bolt the starter up. It still needs rebuilding, but that can wait. Right now, I'd rather it be in place so I know where I can't put the exhaust.
- Finish cutting out those exhaust flanges. Yaaaaaaay, more holesaw
action...
- Odds and sods of gaskets, hoses, etc.
Oh, and I think I've come up with a solution to having a reverse-light switch that isn't just banged into the dash! It involves a little magnetic proximity switch, and drilling a hole in the gearbox casing. Should be entertaining.
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38mm stainless tube, 38 mm stainless 90 degree pipe elbow.
Well, it's a start. Also, the bolts I ordered for the starter are wrong. Well, they're what I ordered, but not what I need. Starter bolts are 3/8UNC. I scrounged up some old ones temporarily just to hold the starter in place while I build the exhaust (and you see how well that's going.), and ordered some of the right bolts too.
Also, not totally overjoyed with the box section I got for the inlet manifold stuff, now that I've sat there and stared at it for a bit. Seems a bit thin. Mm, we'll see.
pollystag
One question. What's the point of fuel injection? Is it for fuel consumption and performance? And wouldnt the gearbox/diff's ratio's counter this anyway?
A bit of fuel efficiency, possibly a bit of performance out of having
a bit better control over the fuelling but I'm not expecting
miracles. And also I hate fucking about with carburettors.
I don't think the gearbox/diff ratios would make much nevermind, really. They are what they are.