More progress

So I pretty much made it through the list of things that I wanted to get through, with one major exception. This weekend I completed the following: I vacummed the accumulated dirt and rust that was hidden underneath and behind the gas tank

While the tank was out I also decided to take out the seat rails for the bench seat and clean them, with the intent of getting them moving easily again. When I pulled them out and tried to move them about a pound of sand fell out. It was like coming home from the beach after walking around with tennis shoes on

After blowing out the rails with the air compressor and some liberal use of WD-40, the rails were moving again.

I also cleaned out the gas tank, installed a new flexible gas line, installed the new sending unit, and put the entire fuel line back into the truck

I recharged the battery and after turning the engine over for a while, re-established fuel flow to the carburetor. Once we had fuel, Sharon helped me get the truck started and running. With the choke most of the way closed the engine idled consistently, if a little roughly. I let the truck warm up and was excited to try out my timing light and get the truck well-timed, but either my 6V battery won't run the light, or the timing light is broken (burned out bulb, etc).

I will have to wait until my next free moment to try the timing light on my car to see if it will run off of a 12V battery.