Project SportsRoof Update

Well it has been a while since I’ve updated readers on #ProjectSportsRoof and frankly there hasn’t been a lot going on.

As the regular readers know I do all the work I can on my car, when practical.  This work happens in my driveway, which unfortunately has a rather steep slope.

You’ve seen the videos of my work pulling out the engine and the transmission and putting the engine back in and attempting to put the transmission back in.

I few weeks ago, after suffering from a huge bout of guilt for not working the Mustang, I attempted one more time to get the transmission reattached to the engine.

This endeavor, required me to put the car up a lot higher than normal on the stands, to get enough room to maneuver the trans and the transmission jack around.  this was a huge mistake.  After a few tries I decided to pull the transmission back out for under the car and wait for some help later in the week.

Everything went fine and the transmission was safely strapped to the transmission jack and rolled back into the garage.  Since the car was lifted higher for the failed attempt, I decided to lower it back on to the ground.  As I lifted the car with my floor jack, so I could remove one stand one of the remaining stands slipped from its place and the car dropped about 5″ on to the tires.  This didn’t seem to be to dramatic of a fall until I noticed that the motor mounts had separate (broke to be frank).

That was depressing, to say the least and another set back.  Of course this depression was compounded by the fact that  I had very limited free time coming up to work on the car.  I am a full-time Junior High teacher and I had just signed on to coach our boy’s basketball team which was a lot of fun (we when 10 -2 for the season) and very time-consuming.

I purchased the motor mounts and was attempting to schedule a couple of relatives to help out.  That proved difficult.

So a relative mentioned a successful automotive shop that was opening a new location here in Tucson and I contacted them to see they wanted to tackle the engine and transmission re-install, build a custom drive shaft and add headers and exhaust.  They looked it over and we agreed on the cost estimate.

So off she goes to get the complete drive training straighten out and hopefully back on the road soon.

There is still a lot of work to be done and as I get ready for my summer break from teaching, I should be able to but more time into it!!!

I have a lot more coming up on #ProjectBeepBeep as well.

Thanks for reading.

Tim

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