OK, finally got some time to post up the new pics.
Worked until 1 Thursday night, got home at 2, in bed by 3, up at 7 am and headed over to where the KJ is at the house in Toledo about 35 miles away.
Just as I turned the corner on to my street I see BugginKJ on his bike driving past so he turned around and came back and we opened the garage and set up a plan of attack!
We got things sorted out, made some room and set up the hoist. Pulled the engine on it's stand to the front of the garage
and started setting up the chains to lift it when we discovered that one of the chains we used when mocking things up was in my toolbox that I took to work! We were one chain short of being able to hook up and lift the engine!
He said he might have one at his house in the shed but I thought maybe Tom would have one so I called and woke him up!!
Told him to get some clothes on and bring one of his over if he could find one.
In the meantime, I saw Hart's wheels turning as he dug around my garage, he was looking at the ratchet strap on the roof of the KJ holding on my spare tire on the rack. I didn't trust that one after sitting outside in the sun for 2 years and went out to the XJ and dug one of my new ones out of it. He said "let's just use that" ....... so we hooked it up and lifted the engine off the stand, got the trans bolted up and sitting on the ground as a unit.
and then checked the balance of the assembly on the ratchet strap!
Sometimes it's hard to contain BugginKJ when he gets going so next thing I know we have the shaft of the trans sticking straight out, jacked up to height and sliding in to that beckoning opening in between my KJ's ........ wait this is a family channel!
OK ... we have the engine up and are pushing the hoist and engine in to position already when Tom showed up with the rest of the chain!
With the extra help of Tom
we finished getting it in to position and finally started getting the trans xmember bolted up.
(my view of the pass. side!
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(my view of the driver's side!
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It took about an hour of jockeying the engine back and forth to get all the bolts to line up for some reason. I know we have had that thing in and out at least 6 times before and it never gave us as much problem as it did going in for the final time.
So at last the engine and trans is bolted in and I'll be getting a dolly soon now to to bring it over to my new place so I can work on wiring and linkages and the rest of the build here. I don't have a concrete driveway though and it would have been a little harder to push a hoist around in the dirt!
And so the neverending build continues, stay tuned more progress to come.