Trip prep

As the last few weeks roll by before we depart for Thailand, I am realizing that we are well prepared and ready to go. School is finishing on a great note and it has been a productive year. There has been a big shift here from working on the Datsun, to getting ready to leave for the summer. I am a new person preparing to leave on such a huge trip. Everything going through my mind is in reference to last year's trip. But thins time, it's a totally different area of the world. I wonder what will be similar with travel and what will be different.

I will be using the iPad as my main connection to the Internet, but I had some issues with it last summer. One, is picture uploading capabilities to the blog. Facebook is not a problem, but uploading to Blogger is a little different. So, I am in the process of testing Blogsy. The reviews say it should do what I need, but the dive hut in Phuket is not the best place to learn software. Two, is how to get photos from the SD card to the iPad. Luckilly, the gen 2 device allows camera still shots and video, but I went ahead and got the Mac adapter for SD to the iPad port. Last summer I took almost 5k photos at the highest .jpg resolution and it was 6 gigs. Thats fine for stills but when you go to shooting HD, it's a different story. There will be 3X16 gig cards and 3x8 gig cards making this trip. To protect it all, I will be storing the SD cards and IPad in special Pelican Cases.

I will go ahead and post just to try what it's like from the Blogsy app.

 

Dash OUT!

Last weekend was another success!  I started in the morning stripping all parts off the doors and then pulled them off.  Everything cam off nicely.  The driver's door seemed to have a little work done on the main bend on the outside of the door.  There were a few drill holes and some Bondo.  That was the forst place on the car that I have found that has had body work!  I can work with that.  Everything else is REALLY straight and will be a pleasure to restore..... Except for the the floorboards!  I have a bit of rust down there, but nothing that can't be cut out and replaced.

After the doors cam out with the windows, I took all parts upstairs to the Z's bedroom.  The room is quite full and much more still needs to get loaded in there.  The baggies are working nicely and my labeling methods seem to be holding up.  We will see when I need to locate an item for refinishing and installing on the new body.  

The day ended with the dash coming out.  This was no easy endeavor.   Richard, Chuck, and I worked all around the thing removing screws, bolts, hose fittings, and a lot of pulling.  Most of the problem lied in accessing of the fasteners.  The serpent of a wiring harness weighs more than what is in the rest of the car!    I have no idea how you could get in there to replace a gauge with the dash still in the car.  As it came out, so did years of dust and crumbling foam.  This all just added to the the historic smell of the Z.  Just like good whiskey.  

The rest of the week looks busy with orchestra, but the weekend should turn out to be another productive one.  More pics and stories to come.  Gotta jet to work:(