It took about an hour but I finally got the trany in! This was the toughest mating of clutch/ piolet bearing/trany I have had to do. Not that 1 hour is really bad.

I was using a old input shaft as a alighment tool, however, after wrestling with the trany for a bit and it not going the last 1/4-1/2 " the light bulb went on. Maybe the pb/clutch/hole in bellhousing are not concentric. Sure enough, I put the old input shaft back in and measured from the shaft to the edge of the opening in the bell housing and I was off about 1/16-1/8" to the left and down. Gave it a few taps with a dead blow mallet to even thing up. Gave it another shot and Wallah!

It is amazing when you use your noodle how things go so much simpler.

 

That's got to be the slickest looking T-5 I've ever seen!!

Good job dude...

 

i think your engine block want PCed too

That is awesome....

 

sweet.

 

sure looks good but it's going to be hard to see or show off

 

Is that a stock T-5, just powder coated

 

Yup..