First pet the dog ..... he is keeping you active!!!! Then I would ask what is the issue here......putting a bunch of loose gears back together aqain..... in the right sequence...... or just "stabbing" that crash box into the bell housing/clutch plate???
If you need to re assemble the loose parts........ nothing beats having a spare tranny to take apart and redo the good one while it is fresh in your mind........ around here old crash box trannies are worth pennies and some times come attached to the 216....... if you were closer I would give you one.
If you need to do the stabbing part you may need a friend to work on the topside while you do the bottom side........ at times I have had to loosen all the bolts of the clutch pack and have my helper support the tranny from above will I shake the clutch disk from below...... a good short strap around the tranny held by a strong upper helper is a great benefit.......
The last job I did was on an old army (40 Chev) truck and the engine rear support partly covered the access from below...... so to remove the clutch remove the tool box frame mounted behind the cab, undo the cab from the frame, remove the floor plates and move the cab back 9 inches (help greatly by an overhead electric crane)......then get to remove the tranny, remove the shifting fork and the mounting pivot, then undo the clutch pack and slip out the clutch disc out than the pressure plate........ to re-assemble...restab the tranny in place....... I needed a 3 man team....two on top... me underneath and reassembled the clutch pack from the inside of the bell housing...... took a whole day...... BUT now I know why the military shop manual indicated to remove the engine/tranny as a whole assembly to change the clutch disc......and it finally worked!!!! I was too stubborn to follow the manual and refused to remove the top cover from the tranny for clearance.
