mummy cat

I got up early this morning and set to work mucking out the cruiser. It took most of the day and i got to find some pretty awesome stuff, this vehicle has been in the garage for about six years. So, in the interior is about six winters worth of mouse crap, about two and a half bags of garbage, and a mummified cat( i would have snapped a shot for you but it was far too nasty for my feeble camera ).

After I Showered and cried and held myself for a while I noticed that the back left door wasn't opening right. I went and selected the most efficient tool i could find and nimbly picked the lock( needle nose pliers and a hammer). With both back doors now open I could continue to rake out the back of the truck saving the malfunctioning latch mechanism for later. Now that the back of the FJ(yeah, lets call it FJ for a while for the sake of brevity, or until I think of something more witty) was clear of debris I got out the old shop vac and vacuumed some prety sizable holes in the floor.
At this point I started think back to shop class, how much pot i smoked while skipping that class, and how little welding I had done in my life, and the growing number of life skills i would be learning over the course of this project. So far on my Checklist of crap I know nothing about:

• Auto Repair(sigh)
• Wiring
• Welding
• What exactly is wrong with this car

I was compelled at this point to go and sit in the drivers seat for a while and see how sweet it would be to drive the thing. The seat, looking very much like a document containing proof of insider trading at a major public corporation, proved to be much to low for my liking( I like seeing out the window ), so i tacked that onto the growing list of "mods" i would have to do to improve the FJ. I began to think about my plan of attack and this is what i came up with:

1. Get the engine to turn over. This seems like a good place to start, and evolves becoming an electrician, a skill i have always been a bit wary of learning.
2. Remove the after market parts that are probably shorting out the questionable wiring.
3. Knock out the rust that riddles the body and either patch or bondo the undoubtedly sizable holes that will unquestionably ruin this automobile.
4. Start making it look sweet.
5. Drive it around and be fresh

Hopefully we will all learn a lot during this project, and a i hope you stick through it with me. At the end of each post i will document my mood and outlook on this project on a scale of one to ten. I hope it gives you insight into my progress.

Mood: 10
Optimism: 10
Difficulty of todays project: 3
Number of times I hit my head: 1


p.s. hopefully I will be learning to write and spell as well