I took the Jeep to my brother's shop on Saturday to get the paint on her. I sprayed 2 coats. The first coat was a light coat that turned out kind of flat after drying for a half hour or so. The second coat turned out glossy in certain places and semigloss everywhere else. I know that it will flatten out as time goes on and the paint finishes curing. I have a few sanding scratches in the hood as well as a couple of dry spots (my fault - not holding the gun flat). Overall I'm happy with it.
I got it home after church on Sunday and started reassembly. I got a lot done that day.
Yesterday, I repainted the dash to match the rest of the Jeep (I painted it with the Behr latex last year - turned out to be a hard, durable coating, but took a LONG time to completely cure). I also installed my new steering wheel and the passenger seat. I made a couple of gas can carrier spacers out of a 1" stainless bolt, but had to stop when the stainless dulled (and finally BROKE) my saw blade! I will go get another blade today and finish making those spacers and install the carrier. I'm also going to install the driver seat cushions and install the seat, reinstall the gauge cluster today. I am planning on going to a friend's house either tomorrow or Thursday to install my 5 replacement tires and paint the wheels to match the rest of the Jeep.
I have one question, but a little background info first. I blew out the fuel line going to the carb (because I lined the gas tank, installed a new stainless in tank filter and gas line from the tank to the main gas line), removed the inline gas filter before the pump and changed the gas filter before the carb. I left the one before the carb to make sure I had all of the crap out of the gas line before I installed my rebuilt carb. Next, I primed the gas line to the carb with my hand held fluid transfer pump and fired up the engine. It was surging a good bit, so I went around and looked at the engine. Gas was "spurting" into the inline filter. I figured that the pump was bad, so I pulled the newly rebuilt (by Midwest Military) pump off of my other Jeep and installed it on this one - I got the same result - "spurting" into the inline filter. So last night (the last thing I did) I installed my rebuilt carb (the gas was clear with no specs of anything in the filter) and fired up the engine. I am still getting the surging of the engine and "spurting" of gas into the inline filter. I haven't checked the fuel pressure, but I would think that the inline filter should stay full of gas?