Thanks for all the suggestions, Guys! I did have the thickness of the flywheel wrong. I re-measured and it is approximately 1-1/4" thick. The old aluminum one was 1" thick. I have checked several measurements today and everything looks like it should work. This transmission has been in the truck already, but on a 37 it gets tight trying to get it in because the end of the body of the transmission barely clears the the underside of the floor when trying to install it. Some of this is caused by new motor mounts that have rasised the motor up and force the transmission to be pushed up at the rear when installing. I'm going to try it again tomorrow. If I can't get it in, I will probably take Hotrod Lincoln's advice and check it in steps. That seems like a good approach and I have found if you systematically approach this kind of problem, you can usually find the answer as quick as if you just haul off and try several things that are not necessarily in some sort of organized order.
Thanks for the input. It helped by causing me to go back and check my work and think through the process. The support and the answer always come form the Stovebolt and the "'Bolters".
I appreciate it very much!
Joe
