New Transmission  12                 Feb  2012

Here is what it looks like sitting my jack now. It's a little nose heavy but with the use of a clamp placed over the plate and jack, it sits pretty good. Without the clamp it wants to sit at an angle but it wouldn't fall off the jack because if you remember I welded a spud to the bottom of that plate.
 

 

 

I tapped a 5/16-18" hole in the rear block and then used a bolt on one side of the trans mount so it stays put while I'm wiggling it into place. The trans mount hole size is much larger so this bolt slips right through. Just a little insurance because you never know!
 

 

 

Here you can see the front block sitting between the casting ribs along with two 3/8" bolts holding the block in place. The rear block has the same size bolts and you can also see the clamp I'm using to hold it level.
 

 

 

I had to try out my new jack to see what kind of clearance issues I had and quickly found out the shifter was going to hit the chassis first. At this point the trans wasn't even close to bolting up so the first thing I did was remove the shifter from the trans. It's held on by six bolts along with some sealant and was simple to remove.

With the shifter out of the way I tried it again but it didn't go much better. I had all kinds of new clearance problems now so it's time for a different plan.
 

 

 

To help me with some of the clearance issues,  I made this cardboard replica to scale. I call it my timesaver because I can lift it into place and see where something might not fit and take care it without lifting the real one. It worked pretty good as I found a few places that needed to be hacked on.
 

 

 

It didn't take very long to make and if you look close you can also see four holes so I can fasten it to the scatter shield. With it bolted in place I was able to layout some areas that needed to be worked on.
 

 

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