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We ain't getting any younger!

Moving along, isn't it nice to put stuff on after all this time!

My buddy is a slob, I could never work like this, he left in a rush the other day & I haven't been back there, geeze he could of asked me to clean up a tad!cleaned up a little, still in shambles but if he can work like that more power to him, I can't stand stepping over & banging into 4 million...

K it's true, it's in, now all he has to do is put 3/4 of the darn thing back together!

Don't have to leave town, but shit's getting weird , I had a dream last night that He got it in. Just got a call from him, the motor is in, he reset the chains AGAIN & got just the right tilt to get it in, I'm happy for him, & me too. I will agree with BBB's last post, I'm getting too old for this!

What a friggen mess, we decided to put the transfer case on first, rather than fighting it from underneath. Bad idea, as we cleared each step putting the starter & that harness inWe dropped it in enough to start the tranny cables & harness & that's about where we got stuck we are about 2 inches...

Somehow he managed to get the exhaust manifolds on, Friday he Had another friend over who had a method of removing the broken bolts, hold a nut over the hole & weld it to what was left, used every nut he brought with (was like 10 of em) on the first one & had NO LUCK. Moved to the other side...

Nice workaround, they lied us old dogs can learn new tricks!!!

Cut & splice!! Love when you change 1 thing & it affects 3 others!

Gotta ask a dumb question, doesn't moving this half of the cable system screw up the parts that hook up on the other end?

OK, had to move just about everything out there to get the old motor & tranny on my truck, he pulled the coil packs off before it went off to the scrap yard.While he was gone I moved just about everything out there again, to try & set up for the install He's now fighting with 4 broken off bolts...

Holy crap, I get out there this afternoon & he's got 1/2 the truck apart to get to some of the stuff underneath.Once loose we almost made it, but thr hoist got wedged on the last 2" of firewallDropped it & reset the chains, finally got it to clear Almost there Every inch we go more wires have...

Creative work arounds are part of this hobby, did you finally figure out the spreader bar? I can't think of any for the E-brake cable, maybe weld another hunk of metal in the right place, looks like room to clear the spring bolt?

Tools are building up, he misses his garage where everything was right there, working here has got to be frustrating for him, but heck at least I give him a place to do it!So what would you rather work on this spaghetti Or a proper engine bay!

I'll give him the suggestion, what happens next is up to him, I wasn't around today, but he has it jacked up now, assume he started loosening stuff on the bottom?

He's worried that with the tranny on, trying not to seperate it's too much for the little bolts?

Holy crap, He spent a good part of the day just getting the intake manifold off that thing, still trying to figure where to hook up the chains to the pull the motor, there's bolt holes in the back of the heads if he can get to them! He was thinking of selling the motor, but with all the work...

The shops back in action, Marks tranny started slipping & He ended up buying a motor with less milage & the trannyHis idea was to pull the cross member so he could pull it out the front with hood onGot that out but it was a struggle never go back without at least loosening the fenders, So last...

Found a good use for all that 1/4" tape I got by mistake, wanted to see what it would look like if I extended my stripe all the way to the front I actually like the green outline, so If I ever get bored enough to do this, I will buy green pinstriping tape & outline it too!

That I would assume, With 3 sons my cars were always mid (81 malibue) when the first was born & then the 87 caprice , all full size after that. They never would have fit in the cuda after they were 11 or 12, all 6 footers, all bigger than me & I'm 6'1" Even during the gas crunch I had the 66...