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Nothing wrong with that.

Some people buy $300 metal K-member stands to install their engines from the bottom. I used a home made wooden creaper. It served the same purpose.
 
I thought this was gonna be about spit shinin your transmission jack all clean.
 
That thing come with steel toes? I use a motorcycle stand to do trannys. Works like it was made for it. In the old days when I was a real man I just picked them up and slid 'em in.
 
Can you guys remember being young and dumb and much better shape. Use to have car on stands and roll the tranny up on your chest to man handle it up to install. M-21 and M-22 were easy as they weigh about half what a 833 weighs. Now can't even pick either one up. The golden years suck and make you work around our limitations. What ever works and it keeps you from hurting yourself is good. =D>
 
magnumdart said:
That thing come with steel toes? I use a motorcycle stand to do trannys. Works like it was made for it. In the old days when I was a real man I just picked them up and slid 'em in.
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67cudafb said:
Can you guys remember being young and dumb and much better shape. Use to have car on stands and roll the tranny up on your chest to man handle it up to install. M-21 and M-22 were easy as they weigh about half what a 833 weighs. Now can't even pick either one up. The golden years suck and make you work around our limitations. What ever works and it keeps you from hurting yourself is good. =D>
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I remember doing it with automatics, but that was a little while back.:D
 
67cudafb said:
Can you guys remember being young and dumb and much better shape. Use to have car on stands and roll the tranny up on your chest to man handle it up to install.
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I did this about 8 years ago with a ford c4 in a 64 Falcon with headers.
 
First time I pulled the A833 out of my 69RR I made the mistake of not having a jack. Fortunately, we had a huge old floor jack which worked well for "back in."

First time I made that mistake was changing a clutch in a Ford. Had no idea they were that heavy, I'd been used to Chev 3 and 4 speeds until then. This was at the auto hobby shop at Treasure Island in 68/69

One "trick" I learned with 4 speeds was to put the box into reverse and any forward gear. This locks up the box, so you can wiggle the case and the input shaft follows, allowing easy alignment to the splines.

I believe this might be the hobby shop in the far right corner of this photo, this was taken in the spring of '70 as I was "driving through" south to San Diego. This was my last "Chivvy" before the 69, the '70 RR

http://www.qsl.net/w6cp/k6ncg/k6ncg.html

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I can remember doing the chest bump putting transmissions in at the track so anything that make your life easier is a plus. Work smarter not harder is my way of doing things now. Nice job is it time for a patten number on your new multi. function tool.
 
Whatever works! I dropped an 833 on my hand while trying to install it when it slid off one of those mini hydraulic jacks. It bounced off the silver ring I had bought in Mexico a year before. That ring sure saved me from a broken finger. Mashed the ring good, had to pry it with a screw driver to make it get back over my knuckle. Had a silversmith fix it and wore it another 10 years. I need to invest in a better method than a ring for safety.
 
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