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Well, to compound the swap, I think I need to speedi-sleeve the crank. There's a noticeable ridge on the crank where the rear main rides.

That's what I thought, but I didn't want to go prying on it if that wasn't the right way. I have it all unbolted, the actual removal had me held up. Well, now bad weather has me stalled. I have a good paved driveway, but nothing over top of the truck.

I know I've just missed this in the TM's, but how to I remove the rear seal housing?

I might pick up one of those in the future, but in the meantime, my engine hoist worked great. Just so long as I can work on the truck on a paved surface, lol.

I didn't really think of it that way. I'm going to call a local clutch place about a flywheel. I'll talk to them about the pressure plate as well. Maybe I can have it rebuilt locally. If it's cheaper than buying a new one that is. Otherwise, I'll just get a new PP as well from Saturn.

I used an engine hoist and some chain. It was the perfect length. I just lowered the transmission straight down and set it on the ground with some 4x4's underneath it. I'm just going to rough up the pressure plate and be done with that. I'm stuck at the flywheel though. I'm replacing the...

Well, engine hoist through the passenger door was a charm. Took just a little muscle, otherwise the hoist did everything. Unloading the pressure plate levers was harder than dropping the tranny. I used my floor jack handle, a filed junk castle nut and some junk bolts. I got it unloaded and...

You take it to a machine shop and they do something similar to the flywheel as they would to plane heads or a block I presume.

I'm just going to use the engine hoist then. You have a lot of rep around here Recovry, I'd almost take your word as gold, lol.

That's what I was thinking of doing, but pulling the trans out if it'll lift that high. I was going to do a dry run first before hooking it up to see if it'd work. Maybe even just sit it on the passenger side floor board.

I have to get in there and change my rear main as well. I know that it's bad and I suspect that it soaked my clutch and made it fail prematurely. I'm also going to assume that the flywheel will need resurfaced, almost positive of it. I'm just hoping the pressure plate is in good shape. I'm...

Your second picture answered another question I had. I wasn't sure if I needed to unbolt the transmission itself or the "adapter"? from the block. How heavy would you guess the tranny is? I'm going to check Harbor Freight for that hoist. I don't have the money to spare, but I might pick one...

Well, let me begin by saying this is the first major wrench I've actually put to my truck. It was ready to drive other than putting fuel in the truck when I bought it. It threw the water pump belts about 50 miles into the pickup trip. Other than now, that's been all it's needed. I downloaded...