10/28/23 back at it today. Spent a couple hours wrestling with the trans and decided it was time to start over. Glad I did now. Seems I hadn’t installed the pilot bearing fully which was keeping the tranny from mating up to the bell housing by about a 1/2 inch.
Luckily I had ordered another pilot bearing as backup and it came in this afternoon. Also this time I had a real installation tool not a socket. Bearing went in fairly easy and got it to bottom out so all good.
Just finished getting the clutch installed and called it a day.
Doug
