First, thanks 36 Sedan for the PVC tip! I had a foot long piece of 1/2" SCH 40 PVC and tried that, pushing the aluminum into the PVC then once through using a push/pull and it works pretty slick! It's not perfectly straight yet, but probably good enough for what I'll need. I was going to cut 5 wheels out of wood.... You saved me a bunch of time!
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I had been going through my stash of miscellaneous "stuff" that the PO had picked up at various car show vendor booths (like 5 different types of tubing clips for 3/8" tube plus a bag of "quick mount" plastic clips for 1/8", 3/16", 1/4" and 3/8" tube), and one thing that I'd scratched my head over was this High Zoot Moroso Balancer Bolt. Why does a guy, who's picked up a complete Chevy ZZ4 engine from the local dealer, come home with a High Zoot Moroso balancer bolt? I've got to admit I wondered about it 4 years ago, and it still made me pause - Why?
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The crank pulley has been mounted forever, I believe by the PO but for some reason this morning I grabbed a flashlight and looked in the bore..... NO Balancer Bolt!
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That got me started on a look & learn since the bolt is 2.25" long and the bore in the crank is only something like 1.25" deep. Also, the super heavy duty washer from Moroso is about 3/16" thick, and too large to fit in the balancer bore by a large overlap. I had not remembered that the crank pulley goes on before the balancer bolt, but a YouTube video on how to install SBC balancers the right way gave me the answer when the guy got the balancer seated using the threaded tool he said, "Now the crank pulley has to be installed before we install the balancer bolt....." So the pulley went back on with a dab of LocTite, followed by the Balancer bolt torqued to 60 ft-lbs. Gotta love the well done, technically correct YouTube Vid's out there! Just gotta be smart enough to ignore the trash.

Now I don't know if the PO removed the stock crank pulley to put on the fancy chrome one he'd bought, and just didn't replace the balancer bolt, or if he didn't have a torque wrench but it's scary to think of lighting off the engine and having the balancer bounce across the shop floor.... Divine Guidance! Thank you, Lord!
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So the rest of the day was taking things apart. I did another tweak on the exhaust, passenger side near the tranny with a pair of wedge cuts to increase pipe to tranny clearances and added a little gusseted tab off of one rear hanger mounting tab for the gas tank rollover vent. It's not much higher than the tank vent, but on a roadster there's not much higher ground so it'll do.
Got the LOKAR shifter pulled, the headers off, and the steering shaft pulled. This thing is starting to look bare again!
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Our heat index is just nasty these days! Humidity is 41% with a measured temp of 99F which is a heat index of 111F or so! And no, it's NOT a dry heat! For an old guy it means booking it towards the house around 4pm or so, and thinking about what's next.

I'm about ready to pull the engine & tranny, split them apart and get the engine on a stand. I've got an old engine stand that the PO gave me with the engine, and I think I'll get another one from Harbor Freight to use for a chassis rotisserie - just need to level out the support tubes so it doesn't go wonky when it spins like the '33 did...

That's about it from here. Thanks for putting up with my ramblings.