^ ^ Thanks fellas.

A little more progress today, I can start to see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel...

New fuel filler cap. The 15 year old original rubber o-ring was nicely cracked around the perimeter, so with my last parts order I just got an OEM unit - got one for the m3 while I was at it too.

Old vs new:


After some light cleaning of the filler pot (rubber surround), I hit it with some 303. Just a gratuitous picture of it installed:


Ok, this one is a little weird, but progress nevertheless. When initiating the engine replacement my brother and I thought we needed to remove the hood for clearing the hoist arm, so we began to disconnect the windshield washer nozzle wires. Unfortunately, we cut a couple wires when unbundling the wires from under the tape. Bummer. but it can be fixed so I got it done today.

The bundle:


The cut wires:


The fix (crimps and some shrink tubing):


Protecting the other wires from the heat gun:


After the heat gun:


Taped up the bundle:


I guess I'll find out if I connected the correct wires to each other. I think I got it, though. Used a little deductive reasoning to match up which ones matched (basically, as I unbundled the tape I took note of which cut ends were closest to each other... you know, MacGyver stuff. lol).

That's it for now. Thanks for viewing; push on with your projects!