May 10, 2001
Now that the engine is out, the fun really begins. Certain parts (like the intake manifold upper and lower) need to be removed and sent to McCoy to be worked over, while everything else needs to come off so that it will be ready to swap over to the new engine when it arrives. I also need to get the transmission ready to travel, so when my stuff arrives from Brian Hartman it can all go to the shop to be rebuilt.
Remember how hard it was to get at those transmission cooler lines? With the engine out and the transmission on the jack, it’s a piece of cake.
Getting the transmission out from under the truck was another story. I found that I couldn’t jack the front of the truck up high enough to clear the top of the bellhousing with the transmission still sitting on it’s zippy little jack, so I had to carefully (clunk!) slide the transmission off the jack and onto the floor, then drag it out from underneath. Of course, the 45 gallons of ATF the tranny spontaneously generated all came out through the dipstick hole and once again soaked the shop floor.
