Ugh. It feels like it's been forever since I started this project. At first I scoffed at the adage that a car rebuild/restoration "always takes longer and costs more than one originally thinks." I thought for sure that I would be the one to throw that notion into the garbage bin that sits in the same driveway as the Hondamatic. Well, I was wrong. So wrong.
I called the machine shop yesterday just to check up on the status of the head there. The conversation went somewhat like this:
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Me: Hi, I was just checking on how my 78 Honda head that I brought in about 4 (?) weeks ago is coming along.
Machine shop guy: Oh. Well we have been waiting on the block. We thought you were going to bring the block in.
Me: Oh... (pause) yes. I am going to bring it in.... (another pause) Once I figure out how to get it out of the car. Were you also waiting on the fuel pump gear?
Guy: Yes. We didn't want to start working on the head and then get the block and find out that there was something wrong with it. It wouldn't make much sense to have a good head and a bad block. And it's the oil pump gear.
Me: Of course that's what I meant (I always say that and get oil pump and fuel pump interchanged in my mind). Ok. I'll, uh, figure out how to get the block out and bring it over. Sorry it's taking so long. I don't know how to get it out.
Guy: No problem.
Me: Ok. Thanks.
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Man. I have got to get that block out of the car. Argh!!
Nice of them though to not work on something that's over $400 and then absolutely useless to me if the block is bad.
Collin and I are going to a wedding today and we have to leave in a few hours. I have a few light chores to do, but I was hoping to crack open the degreaser I bought and clean up some of the parts and nuts and bolts we took out already. And maybe wipe down the engine compartment. Too ambitious for today? Maybe. Gotta go. Parts don't get degreased on the internet machine.
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