At this point I think "Project 350" proper is actually complete; the engine itself is built, everything else we have to do with it now is to do with getting it into a vehicle and working. I'm not sure what I'll call the pickup project itself, but today we got a little bit of a start on it, anyway.

It's very hard to install an engine in a front-engined vehicle if you don't take the hood off. :) We'll probably take the front fenders off as well, but we didn't have time to do all that today.

If we were young, fit men, we would just have unbolted the hood and taken it off by hand. We are neither of those things, so we used the gantry crane. :)

Having a place to put the hood where it'll be out of the way and safe can be a problem sometimes. But when you're workingon a pickup, well...

... the stowage location kind of suggests itself. :)

That was all we had time for today. Next time we'll probably do some more disassembly, including the front fenders and probably the seat. We don't really need the seat out of the vehicle to install the engine, but the electrical system in this old pickup is kind of a nightmare, and remedying that issue under the dash will be a lot easier without the seat in the way.

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