Today after an extensive cleaning cranked up the heater on the house, shut it down and painted in the basement... damn fumes still made its way into the house (wife was pissed) but I ended up with a nice looking cradle:

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Fitting the trans to the cradle:


WBODY Store PEM's Finally Arrived!

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My son putting on the manifolds



WCF tranny bracket (fit pic)


My daughter playing with the rodney dickman dogbone

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Axle fun today!

wow, 30 second install on the dr side axle lol
pass side, a little fun. since I was doing all the dirty work, my helper was the camera man, the rag man, the go to guy.

heres me fooling with the axles... wtf I look drunk in the 2nd pic?



heres the parts all lined up ready to be put together.

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Assembling the new axle:




Finished Product (except bands)

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quote Originally posted by BobadooFunk: GLOVES!! who uses GLOVES!!?? this is the only help i get!!

rofl - I rarely use gloves, but axle greese.... requires gloves.
cat is adoreable!

anyway, son was sick tonight and told me to go ahead and do some work in the garage, got alot done:

Trans and cradle with neutral switch, dipstick tube on and torque converter bolts ready.


new pic shows coated crossover pipe, 60' intake tube, couplers, slp 85mm maf, ac lines I just got back today (hope I had them do them correctly, if they are backwards I guess ill have a nicely cooled radiator!) bunch of new sensors and crap also lol

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