I started off today planning on getting the dirty work done. The exhaust, the drive shaft, and tighten any loose bolts that I have " temped", so I can be done with that crap.
That plan went to sht just as soon as I tried to stick the driveshaft yoke into the transmission.
It wouldn't fit. And it wasn't going to. Something in the tail shaft was restricting it.
That required that I remove the tail shaft housing, and see. I knew that it was gonna be the bushing. It was. The thing was so tight, I'd have never got the freakin thing to work. I beat out the bushing and measured it. It was exactly the same size as the yoke. And it wouldn't slide over the yoke,...it had been crushed too tightly.
Now I gotta find a new one. That was easy. It still cost me an hour. I get home and check the fit, slides over the yoke with ease.
I install the bushing, and try to slide the yoke into the tail shaft housing...won't fit.
I end up having to hone the damn thing with a brake hone before it'll fit,.....but finally I manage.
Whether or not I have fcked it up by doing that is another wait and see....I replaced the old bushing because the tail shaft leaked, and the worn out bushing may have allowed the drive shaft yoke to wallow around. After I get it going will be the tell tale.
After getting the driveshaft installed, I move on to the trans mount. The bolt holes are 3/8" off to one side. I can manhandle the tail shaft over enough to get the bolts in, but something is wrong, and I gotta fix it. The culprit has to be the engine mounts, I have to have them backwards. So I put a jack under the front of the engine, unbolt the mounts ( no easy job with that damn header in place)
I attempt to swap them,....no way in hell. I put them back.
I get back under the car, check the bolt alignment of the trans mount,...it's still off.
Again I remove the mounts...I think maybe I'll pull the tail shaft mount into line with the bolt holes, and maybe the mounts will swap.
Again,.....no way in hell. I put them back,......again.
This time around, I pull the tail shaft into line, bolt it up, tighten the engine mounts, and let the engine settle into place.
I ain't messing with it anymore.
I bolt the driver seat in. It's in for good.
I have to cut 1/4" off the end of the studs to get the wheel to bolt up. I do that, I round them off so the lugs will start correctly, and I bolt the wheels on.....Again with a blind eye turned directly at the new wheel. It takes twice as much weight to balance the new wheel as the one I have that I was able to keep. I'm also done fcking with that.. If this wheel is bad I'm quite sure I'll blow a gasket to the point of heart failure.
The shifter is gonna need adjusting,....there isn't a positive " click" in every gear...I hope that I haven't made the shifter boot too tight that it restricts the full movement of the shifter...id hate to have to hack that thing up.
No reason for pics,...it's everything that you've seen before. The cars still in the air, I'm still not done, and if I keep having to redo sht, it'll take for freaking ever to get that way