You're welcome! No problem...
This was the point of the thread to get people to try this. On my end of the world a core transmission is anywhere from 100 to $200 and anywheres from 100 to $200 for a rebuild kit and the shift kit together. You could do it three times wrong and still not pay as much money as it would to pay somebody else to do it. Plus the education and the knowledge you get by doing it yourself and even if something goes wrong you probably know what it is because you've been inside there...
Anyways I'll post a picture of what I'm talking about here... I used a couple of these eyelet bolts that I had they had about a 1 ft shaft on them and I used them on my engine stand and had them stick out with the eyelids then used fat washers and bolts to hang my transmission from them using again my engine stand. I had to **** it sideways a little bit because the kale would touch the ground if I went straight down. But anyways once everything was clean it was an easy way to load everything down into it the transmission.
View attachment 1716043968 But this one I'll just do on my bench..
My bench was a complete luck shot as I was down at a local car show that was across the street from the machine shop where I get all my engine work and machine work done. They had moved but one of the owners would just standing out there looking at the cars across the street and I walked over and he said you wouldn't be interested in a workbench would you? I said sure let's take a look and sure enough it was his 8 ft long covered in sheet metal thick sheet metal.. high performance workbench. I met him there the next day with my truck and he loaded it up with a forklift... Totally feel lucky to have that nice workbench with a nice steel plate.. it was a 4x8 3/16 thick sheet of metal that was put on a press brake and bent down the front 5 in and it's 32 in deep and then up about 13 in on the back...