been a while since i had last taken pictures, i cant entirely remember what i did over that while. Evidently form the pictures, i had gutted the interior completely, and put the hood back on (fearful of more blow-overs).
To say i simply "took out the seats" would be a bit of a misnomer. In reality, i more or less wrestled the seats free of the vehicle. To give it some perspective, it would be much like wrestling the nose off of George Washington on Mt Rushmore. The seat mounting bolts were so rusted that they had absolutely become one with themselves, the seats, and the body. problem was that all i could fit under the seats (for the most part) was a typical spanner and a WD40 stick. there wasn't enough room for a grinder to cut them from above, so i had to move below. while i was able to cut/drill out one of the mounts from below, the others were sealed inside one of the body rails, rendering them accessible from the top only. after a long time, and a dinky little hack saw, i managed to cut through the bolts by hand (which meant cutting through the nut first, making it even thicker). The seats finally relinquished their hold on the floor and gave way, though they weighed enough to hold themselves in place without bolts.
the seatbelts you see in the middle of the transmission hump are immutable; i finally gave up after breaking several T-55 torx heads, and will just mask them for the final floor painting.
Also, i narrowed my sputtering problem to a seized accelerator pump (in the picture, the little lever-actuated pump looking piece on the front of the carb), so i popped it off, and managed to work it free. some fine sandpaper and wd40 managed to clean it up, and the problem was solved.
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