It's either that, or he should drink waay more water, and much less wine when he works on that truck.
If by wine you mean Bud Light, then yes that could be a contributing factor. The other part is that my garage has been hovering around 15 degrees during this whole swap, so I am not exactly taking my time as much as I would be if it were summer. I have the shifter issue sorted out, and now only need a new output shaft seal on the tranny (original does not seal on my DS yoke and leaks), and the truck is done. I learned one thing during this swap, and that is that I am never going back to the trans shop I used for this. He is a really nice guy, but didnt know enough that I needed the two bolt starter to work with a windsor and charged me to swap cases, and installed the wrong output shaft seal and wants to charge me to swap them. I guess I assumed he runs a trans swap for a living and may have more knowledge about this stuff than I do, silly me.