Build Thread 1978 Mercury Cyclone. The pig is in the pen.

It’s the exact same length that it was before. Excepting the fact that the old driveshaft had the ford yoke with the failure prone harmonic balancer on the front, it now has the mega-chunky T400/4l80e 32 spline slip yoke and a greaseless u joint installed up front.

droopie85gt said:

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You don’t wanna know.

Sigh.......

Its almost like devine intervention. Some greater force keeps throwing obstacles in the path of completing this car.
This is like a really sadistic dark comedy. But nothing is remotely funny.

The pic of the driveshaft in place is only of it just sorta sitting on the pinion shaft nut. When you try to turn the driveshaft to bolt it up, it don’t turn.
It literally takes a pipe wrench to be able to get the thing to spin.
I called transgo this afternoon..Dude says that I probably have one clutch that didn’t index properly, and that is causing the force fit, which in turn is making the entire assembly impossible to turn. Where in the transmission that is happening will require a complete tear down to about the middle of the trans. And in order to be able to do that means that i have to remove that heavy pig. Then put it back on the stand, then flip it over, then remove the pan, the front pump, the valve body and the front pump. and then start lifting out clutch drums until I find the one that’ll have one friction disc that will be all bent to hell as a result of being smashed by the front pump.

The ONLY ray of light to this whole dismal fcking affair, is that the tunnel is still off, the trans is empty, and nothing else has been installed back. I should be able to remove the thing in 30 minutes or so.