Any Tips for Installing a Trans?

[FireSale]

Originally Posted by Run to Rund

If the car is up high enough, you can usually get enough downward angle to install the engine and trans together. I have done that with 4 speed manuals for decades. The only problem occurs when the engine oil pan has a big sump that is deep and comes very close to the crossmember. In that case you can have the bellhousing area against the firewall hump and the pan against the crossmember.

Yes, we pulled a 302 with the trans but it was a pain.

The piston on the old hoist decided to stop working with the engine just clear of the mounts. Luckily. the guy who was buying it (he sold me the car then bought the motor back) had a brother along who was prepared for stuff like that and pulled out a replacement. All this in February rain in Washington.

The headers complicate things. It makes three things to install at once and my head can't deal with that. Eight spark plugs is a challenge. Bungie cording the headers to the inside of the engine bay is just what I had in mind, so I guess I'm not nuts after all...

Got my parking brake handle installed. You do have parking brakes in your race cars, don't you?

Dale