I haven't yet sorted the isolators, but I do have my brake hoses on. Also found the source of a rattle/rubbing from the left side of the car. Something is rattling around inside the driver's rear hub cap. So it's nothing that is going to cause failure, but it's annoying, and I'll have a fiddly time fixing it, I'm sure.
Also found was the driver's side sway bar link was broken. Ordered two from Rock Auto, and I'll replace them as soon as they come in.
More inspection under the car revealed more leaks. In addition to the power steering box, the rear main seal leaks, as does the trans pan. As long as I was ordering the links and a filter/gasket for the trans, I also bought several bulbs for the courtesy lights, and the PRNDL light. I figured it's winter, and we will probably get more than zero precipitation this year, so I bought some wiper blades, too. I looked for a listing for the piece on the cigarette lighter that's in question, but didn't see one. I'll take a better picture of it and post up a question.
There's a new swell coming in tomorrow, so I'll spend my afternoon surfing. It's supposed to be double-overhead by the end of the day, so it's a bit nervous-making since I haven't been surfing much lately. But Sunday I'll crawl under and see what I can see about those isolators. I have found a place to rebuild them, but they need my cores. Maybe I'll get lucky, and I can snug them up, and make it better while I search for some rebuildable cores. If timing works out, I might try to clean my power steering box to see where the leak is coming from, and buy the seals to fix that, too.
New carb is on, but I'm not quite happy with it. Really bad off-idle stumble, and it starts much harder, too. Once up to speed, it drives nice. I'm not too worried, though. It will get sorted.
Oh, yeah: before I pull the driver's side exhaust manifold, I'm going to try torquing down the offending exhaust port, to see if that gets me anywhere.
The pendulum is swinging back to optimism. If the rear main seal is leaking, and it's not burning that much oil, it's a much smaller problem. I need to stop procrastinating and do a compression test, and maybe a leakdown.
