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Had a beautiful 55 degree afternoon to play with the Hornet a bit.

First job was to remove the old R4B and 3 barrel. It took longer to drain some coolant out of it than to pull that intake. Also pulled the valve covers to make life a little easier.

Cleaned everything and installed a NOS intake valley gasket. I have 7 or 8 of these left. AMC says to put sealant around all of the intake ports, but they didn’t from the factory with these gaskets and the book instructions are for reusing the old tray.

Installed and torqued down the UR18 base. Doing this was a little nerve racking because the new valley tray had to crush down and all I could think of was this manifold cracking. But everything lined up and bolted down nice.

Installed the new valve covers and dropped the distributor back in. This is where I ended for the day. I need bolts for a couple of adapters and things. And then I’ll drop the carbs on and see how much more I have to cut the hood for the grump lump.