Ok, here's what made the (hard part) so easy - unlike the picture I'm going to show I have the tail housing upside down and and less than one minute of help from my nabor to catch the input shaft as it came through and maintain a little bit of back pressure so the input shaft/4th gear held on the main cluster and didn't spill it's contents. My nabor did hang out with me for a few and actually provided the correct size piece pipe to slip over the input shaft to tap on the main front bearing.
ATTENTION !! -- I'm almost positive that you have to drop the cluster gear in the case to install an OVERDRIVE 4 speed and then pull it up into place after the main shaft is installed. I'm sure its because the overdrive gear (now occupying third gears spot) is to big to clear the cluster.
notice the upward angel ? Important ......
those are not my furry arms, I copied the picture from the tranny rebuild book (recommend) highly !View attachment 1714851713
