swattin' mosquitoes and grindin' paint
While waiting for my fuel lines to arrive, I spent last night working on the driver's "unison seat" that I removed from the cab. I cleaned up the seat frame with a wire brush, and got most of the gunk off. The paint seemed to be in great shape. I cleaned the main spring for the sliding seat with some Marine Clean, and greased up the sliding mechanism with some synthetic grease. It seems to slide a bit better now.

I then took on the task of removing the paint from the "tray" that holds the seat cushion, so I can POR-15 it later. The POR-15 instructions don't really say that you should remove paint first, but it says that it bonds much better with bare metal, so I took that to mean that I should indeed remove the paint. With a combination of various wire, plastic, and sandpaper-type brushes for my drill, I got 98% of the paint off of the top of the tray until my girlfriend lured me away with steak and strawberry-cream cheese turnovers. I'll get the bottom of the tray tonight, I think.

My new fuel gauge sender arrived today from Chevy Duty. While the last one I ordered from them, 3 years ago, didn't have a filter on the fuel intake tube, this one does. This is a good improvement.