might be needing an engine stand soon...

Pulled the fan, alternator, coolant and heating hoses, disconnected the power steering pump, pulled the coolant reservoir, disconnected the wiring harness from a bunch of stuff on the firewall, scrubbed the master cylinder off with my wire brush good...  looking like a good amount of room in the engine bay now.  DIRTY stuff down there, I wish I could wheel it to a coin-op car wash again... 

That problem rear tire was deflating again, looks like the aerosol patch can didn't take.  Then again, it does say on the bottle to drive the car home and then get the tire fixed immediately... <shrug>  

I tried to pull the radiator, but the transmission lines are not cooperating.  I think I'm going to have to just assume that I'm getting new transmission lines, especially since I already bent/crimped one of them while trying to disconnect the line from the radiator.  

In lieu of pulling the engine right now, I'm going to get a couple of tubs ready to put parts in and start taking the front clip apart, starting with the lights, grill, etc.  I'm hoping the fenders are salvageable.  I'm also considering a trunk-mounted battery kit for the 'end game'... I already need a new battery tray which is like 40 bucks soooooo.... might as well spend $150 to mount the battery in the trunk and help with handling and understeer, right?  :-p

I took a bunch of pictures, but I'm tired and hungry right now, so... later....