So, we got a tip from Pawpaw about bolting the engine and transmission together and putting them into the car in one piece. That sounded good so we decided to try it since we'd both struggled lining up bell housing bolts to mounted engines on other jobs. As it turns out it was the torque converter that drove us nuts today. It wasn't sitting into the transmission all the way which made it impossible to fit the transmission and engine together. After the 4th try, we finally got that figured out and they fit right together.
Then we figured we'd try to drop it in there. This actually went very smooth.
The idea was to have a pretty steep angle. It seems odd hanging from the hoist like that, but once you drop it in and begin lowering it, you "catch" the transmission with a floor jack and it all starts to level out. The transmission mount bracket went in like a snap and the motor mount bolts weren't much trouble either. A little wiggling was all it took.
Today cost: $0
Total project cost: $3113.67
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