I have been working on this bird for almost four years now. Not a long time compared to some others, but seems like forever to me. It seems that everything I've done, either was a lot more complicated than I thought, or if it was easy, I had to do it over. I've developed a tendency to overlook the obvious. For example, I have finally fired up my engine, after adjusting valves and playing with timing, only to have it start and run for a bit then not start again. After resetting all the valves, rotating the distributor back and forth, pulling the plugs, checking for spark did I finally realize- no gas left in the tank. Okay, I was tired, dirty and p***ed off. Good excuse. But what about when I did the same thing two days later? Can it be the various and assorted fumes that I have been breathing has really killed enough brain cells or the fact that I've passed the half century mark or is it just the nature of a FGF'er to look for the big problem first and eliminate down to the actual cause? (I don't think it's the age, I remember pushing my 66 Barracuda, with a bad starter, along the Long Island Expressway on my way home from National Speedway, with my baby brother popping the clutch probably about a quarter mile before I decided to turn the key on.) Okay maybe it's just me.