69 Notch Barracuda - Rebirth

Went in from top down (383 and A833... :wtf: is with the 3’s and the 8’s???? 4 of a kind and 2 of a kind) today.... damn I just love this stuff...

Lessons learned:

• Don’t fill your trans with fluid before installing in car (if top-down is your approach :wtf: :BangHead: :mad: :realcrazy:)
• Disconnect shifter linkage at nuts on trans before install (don’t try to OVER save time)
• Remove Hurst shifter before install (don’t try to OVER save time, since you’ll need every single 1/2” of angle when going from top-down. Shifter adds about 3” of height at the tunnel that you don’t want)
• Raise rear of car as much as possible
• Lower front of car as much as possible (let air out of tires)

Priceless:

• Prepwork, prepwork, prepwork
• Older brother with half of a free day on zero advanced notice
• Memories of watching older brother work on his car when I was a youngin
• Engine hoist with enough lift power, extension, and tilt assembly add-on (also.. I pre-lubed tilt threads)
• 2 troubleshooting brains
• Wife who puts beer on ice because you are too in-the-thick-of-it to think about your own well being (refer back to prepwork in future)
• Solid wheel chocks, stands, and jacks (tools)
• Original paint and no cares about ruining engine compartment paint, or engine paint
• Extremely Minor knuckle scufs, rather than trips to the er
• Minorness of lessons learned
• Fora(bc)bodiesonly founders and contributors

FYI... engine/trans were in after about 2 hours. Then about 2 hours of fiddling with engine position, level... beers, and reinstalling shifter linkage. Good times... good times.