Earlier on in the year, I booked off from the 18th up 'til when work closed for giftmas, figuring that'd give me -- on top of extending the holiday nicely -- plenty of time to tinker with the truck and maybe run out to a coupla places to grab parts as needed. Well that sure didn't work out! Thursday the 7th: fuel pump dies in my car just as I get

The truck's service brakes are air-assisted hydraulic; they'll work without air pressure, as fully manual hydraulic. (And they work fairly

Wednesday, my air--pipe -- and some of my fittings -- arrived, so I put a bit of time into running more pipe, and connecting up a few more things.

Told you :3 It'll still want a second coat, at some point, but it's a lot better now than it was. Other progress today was getting the bottom of the vent duct welded

Today's gentle fun: Remove the old air-tank. I'll have to find my little borescope camera and check out the inside of it; maybe it's still okay enough to reuse, but the little tiny bit I can see doesn't inspire much confidence.

Not particularly much to report since last. I did some more rolling around on the floor, connecting air-pipes up, and ended up taking an hour-long nap while I was there. Last weekend I couldn't really find the motivation to do some more bodywork, so instead I decided I'd take the front tow point off that ... crude crossmember.

Wasn't really in the mood for much today (so I thought), so I started stripping... Two hours of peeling paint with a razor-blade...

Cooling system has antifreeze in it now. Which is good, because by the time I got around to plugging into the ECU and getting ready to start testing stuff, both the air-temp and coolant temp sensors were reading -1°C, and there was definitely a chill in the air. There certainly wasn't a few minutes after firing the engine up, though: Air temp sensor -- slung over the engine hump back panel, down by the gear lever, because there's nowhere in the carby manifold for it to go -- was reading 25°C in pretty short order. I suppose, much like the song