Windshield washer bottle and holder.

Here is the very rusted windshield washer bottle and holder in the car.

All painted. At some point I will look for a new holder, this one is in rough shape... degreased, POR Metal Ready, and POR-15 black semigloss. This should keep it from rusting for awhile, the sun in the photo really catches the rust pitting, in the car, I don't think it will look so bad. I did not test the motor which sits in the bottle, I figure it's easy to get to and is the least of my issues at this time.

Throttle Position Sensor

Removed the Throttle Position Sensor (TPS) cleaned the inside up a bit and painted the metal and screws.

On the intake manifold...

Opened up. I'm not sure if that is the remains of dirt or an old gasket along the edges of the metal backing plate. I think it was an oil and dirt mix that creeped in over time; there are two notches on the left side of the metal plate which would prevent a seal anyway, so a gasket would seem not to make sense.

Cleaned and painted, I used the NAPA self etching primer over that just some silver colored spray paint. I think I will replace the two mounting screws seen on the upper right of the photo....

Valve Cover

Just finished (well, for now) the valve cover. Here are some before and after shots.. click for larger versions

Here it is after cleaning in Simple Green. Below are some close ups; I have read people's posts on the P1800 list serve regarding the flaking yellow so I thought I would get some good pictures of it up here. (8/6/10: I was able to confirm that the yellow is some kind of varnish, some of it remained on the back of the labels that were removed and it remained flexible, the fact that it was under the label suggests that it was original)

Two coats of POR-15 gray... I'm going to leave it like this for awhile, after the engine goes back in and things are adjusted etc. I will re-sand and coat it with a silver paint to get closer to the original finish, or better yet, just get it zinc plated... The POR is very tough and should be able to handle being taken on and off to adjust valves,  and all the other things that will happen as the car goes back together.