trans input shaft will not slide onto clutch

harrisonm said
I see that now. So the OP is trying to install the engine into the engine bay and slide it back onto the transmission that is already in the car??? That is a backwards way to do it. If you read his first post, He says, "install this 273 onto a 4 speed trans". I assumed that it was just poorly written. I assumed he was trying to install a transmission the usual way. He didn't give us much information, did he?

Yeah somewhere in the thread he says the trans is still in the car. Be better off pulling the trans, bolting it up to the motor and then stabbing it in… My next thought is how the heck is the trans sitting in the car without the motor? Just by the drive line and crossmember? Killing the trans rubber mount….. twisting and bending the crossmember?

Makes you go hummmmmm? :realcrazy: