Engine and tranny installed

With the help of a few friends, Jim Ellis, Bob Fusselman and of course Steve Gross whose heavy helping on the build, we were able to get the engine and transmission installed. Things went pretty smooth except for a few tight spots. We had to work at getting the motor mounts lined up but we finally got there. The space is fairly tight so we had to be careful not to bung things up.

We got the engine and tranny buttoned down and then tried to install the drive shaft without any luck. It would go into the rear of the tranny housing about 1" and then hit something solid. We tried for quite a while but finally bagged it for me to check with the tranny folks in the morning. The engine looks great installed.

Traudl was the photographer for the install, she wanted the heavy load : )