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Today I was waiting for the delivery guys to get rid of the two breather caps and replace them with an oil fill plug and a PCV connection so I started cleaning up my splash aprons. They are getting pretty close, but not quite there yet. Ran over a full tube of spot putty backing out into the sunshine kind of like stepping on a ketchup packet...
Took it out for a shakedown cruise yesterday after getting the alignment set up and the wheels/tires balanced - the weather was simply too nice to be working on the car indoors. What a hoot!! I pulled out onto K10 (4 lane divided, 70mph speed limit about 5 miles from home) and quickly accelerated up to 65/70 and dropped it into 5th. It did fine, but you can feel that it really likes pulling at 2500 to 3000 instead of 1950rpm I did a big loop, putting about 50 to 75 miles on it and it did great. I told my wife that I think the smile on my face is stuck there permanently.
Got the new parts on late in the day, and earlier replaced the pan gasket to eliminate that from the source of the oil leaks, along with bagging the breathers. Tomorrow will be another cruise, and hopefully the oil leaks will be gone.