Wednesday

Why you should label bolts during disassembly;

Gymnastics required to apply 105 pounds of torque to the flexplate mounting bolts while hanging from the engine hoist.

 

Bolted engine to tranny and noticed a big hole... oops!

  

Back together with the proper missing piece. This is long!

  

BTW-check your flexplate to converter bolt pattern BEFORE assembly to avoid panic. Turns out there is only one possible way to bolt them together and the correct way always leaves the converter drain plug accessible through this large hole in the flexplate. I also had to SLIGHTLY enlarge one bolt hole to account for a manufacturing error in welding on the nuts. Par for course.

 

Close of business Wednesday. Dinner was due and the hoist was running into the frame.