Well, progress' although slow, has been steady up until today. I've been fighting the transmission install for a week now. I don't have a transmission jack and due to some medical problems I cannot get down on the ground under the truck. I managed to rig up a system using a furniture dolly and an old wooden cabinet. I picked up the 700r4 with the cherry picker and set it on top of my contraption. Then lowered the lift down slowly making adjustments as needed for spacing. I then took ratchet straps and slung the tranny from the frame rails for added safety. I had to lift the tailshaft up and over the torsion bar crossmember and slide the tranny towards the rear a bit. Then lowered some more adjusting and moving here and there. went back to it this morning and started feeling around for the clearance from the tranny to the floorboard and tranny tunnel. I had 1 inch of clearance and 4 inches left to raise the tranny. Yup, won't fit without changing tunnels or lowering the motor. Either way progress is stopped for now while I regroup and figure this issue out. Everything was going so well, this is a real bummer.
Martin '62 Chevy C-10 Stepside Shortbed (Restomod in progress) '47 Chevy 3100 5 Window (long term project) ‘65 Chevy Biscayne (Emily) ‘39 Dodge Business Coupe (Clarence) “I fought the law and the law won" now I are a retired one! Support those brave men/women who stand the "Thin Blue Line"! Hug a cop! USAF 1965-1969 Weather Observation Tech (I got paid to look at the clouds)
