Well finally got the tranny out, TC replaced, and mounted back in and she LIVES! It wasn't too bad only took 3 bottle jacks and 3 floor jacks and a couple of ratchet straps. Oh and it only took me 7 hours... good think I don't do this for a living.
Ended up using one jack on the front oil pan with a block of wood and then two more on the ends of the cross member to balance and rotate it. It took long because I was figuring things out. We pushed the truck forward to separate then dropped all the jacks together to get enough room. Once the New TC was on we lifted it up to where it looked like the bellhousing to block guide pins would line up, we put a ratchet strap on the rear bumper connected to a d ring in the shop and slowly pulled the whole truck back to mate with the transmission. BINGO!
I think I overfilled the transmission a little so I need to drain that out and also need to check the gasket on the pan anyway from supporting the tranny there. But She starts up drives and shifts. It is shifting a little soft in the 2 miles I drove it and is shifting a little late, I recon that I need to adjust the vacuums modulator etc.
There is still a subtle interesting ticking noise coming from the bell-housing area, Unfortunately I believe it is most likely the flexplate which I inspected and thought was fine. At least that wont be as terrible to change...
Once I get some free time After maple sugaring is over I will tear into the old 6.2 which suffered a terrible death.
