I managed to wake up at 5 a.m. again today, which means I got an hour and a half out in the garage this morning. It's neat how much work you can get done when you have an uninterrupted block of time set aside. Fun.

The engine mounts are bolted down... sort of. I have bolts in holes so the engine doesn't slide off the mounts, but there aren't any nuts holding the bolts in place. I'll get those on tomorrow morning. I'll also mount up the transmission and driveshaft.

I have an electrical bug somewhere. When I push the ignition, the starter clicks (like it's not getting enough power), and then the battery gauge reads zero, as though the battery is completely drained. When I poke around the wire to the starter with my voltage tester, I've got no power to the starter. However, when I take that same voltage tester to the battery, I do have power... and then the power returns to the starter. Weird.

I think I may end up yanking the 10 wires I currently have and start over, beginning with the starter. At least that way, I can rule out a short in the sytem and determine if the fault is in the battery itself. It was a cheap $30 Walmart battery, after all...

Hopefully I can get the starter cranking properly tomorrow. Once I have that piece in place, I'll move towards the rest of the electrical system -- the coil, the tach, the auxiliary panel, etc. That, and with the starter functioning properly, I can finally get a compression test on my cylinders.