Hornman wrote:

 I had prepped to pull the old three speed out of my 66 fastback and as I was taking out the last exhaust pipe I happened to shine the light on the motor mount.  My immediate thought was somewhere between "That doesn't look good" and "S***". So instead of pulling the tranny, I pulled the motor mounts.
 It's not supposed to be two pieces.

When I pulled the right motor mount I found that the two bolts holding the mount to the block also had Adel clamps for the power cable to the starter:



Probable near the end of its life span. 

Then while I was standing there looking up at the starter cable I looked straight ahead and saw this:



Which led to this:



Chasing parts and repairing the WYAITs killed two weeks of what I hoped to be progress.

I did get the three speed out yesterday and there are a couple of stories that go with that job, later.

 He is still there...waiting...for the next step...   I hate it when that happens!

Now bet doing mantaince Tubo style. Why have one thing on your plate, when you can have an extra helping of WYAIT.

Tubo

Rudi wrote:

As time consuming WYAIT is you end up with much more reliable, nicer vehicle and as a bonus you get to detail those parts that otherwise would stick out like a sore thumb.

Yeah, but its killing my schedule.