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That looks great! I get ten days off after tomorrow. Hope to get mine installed and driveable during the break.

I have a question on those splines I'm hoping you can answer, please. Are they "keyed" somehow and will only slide into the right grooves or will it slide back up in the wrong position? I think I've got it back like it was but wanted to be sure. Thank you for any help. Cliff

I thought about adding Jelly to my "garage" but never did. Now I've got another one so maybe I will put both in there. I don't think Mike would mind. Who knows, the way the home page rotates through our pictures I might see my dogs on there one day.

Fortunately we're still here, but they're frequent. He's learning so fast, goes to the door already but I have to be quick or he'll leave me a "treat".

Is he like that cute dog on the Caesars commercial? My old boss, the GC I worked for had one for his daughter. Bella was her name, super smart dog. Merry Christmas Mr Tavish!

I found those at Lowes. I need another one now, maybe a good project for today.

My Vet calls him a Bullador. https://www.google.com/search?q=Bullador&rlz=1C1BOFA_enUS494US494&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj02IKcpOjJAhVDQCYKHZR9A58Q_AUIBygB&biw=1280&bih=620 His mother is a Chocolate Lab, I've met her so I know that part is true. Now whether the dad is an American Bulldog, I can't say for sure. I like him but my other dogs have been females so I don't know how stubborn he's going to be. Can't be worse than me though, we make a good match. A "Mexican Stand Off" for sure.

Is there pictures of the Mustang? I sure do want to see it.

Try your best to decipher my scattered brains this morning. Mr Zedyone_kenobi had a great thread about his motor swap, showed a crate he built for the motor. I built the crate, added some steel wheels. Put the tranny on my motorcycle jack and slid them up to each other, bolted them together. Picked the whole thing up with my engine hoist and put it into the car. The 2x is too thick to let the rear clear the board so I had to chisel out 3/4" of the thickness and went down about 2" so it will clear the rear board, picture #2. You could still use the 2x but cut that out before nailing together. It sat about 1/2" short before I cut that out. But for storage it would be fine. And you'll have to go 1/2" farther back for the oil pump cut out. Here's his thread, very informative read when you have a few hours, it's about 12 pages long. http://www.classiczcars.com/topic/43476-my-datsun-spirit-l28-build/page-5 Go to post #86 for the crate info. Here's mine ready for installation. Looking back at his, I used 2x6 wood his is 1x6. I would use 1x6 to avoid the problem with the rear not hanging off enough to mate the transmission. FWIW

I did the motor and transmission first, then dressed it up. I'm on my phone now but will post a picture of my set up. You need to build this wooden crate looking thing, I can get the measurements, to mate the motor (on the wooden thing) and the trans., on some kind of jack. If you're trying to do this by yourself.

On the header install, sometimes they barely touch against the bellhousing or transmission. Slight grind on the bellhousing is all. You'll see what I'm talking about.

That's what I've used on my 280s N42, felpro. I think my mistake was using antiseize between the head and gasket, it's got a slight "tick" other than the valvetrain. So to be honest, I haven't used that style Nissan yet. But everything ive read has been positive.

Buy one of these at your Nissan dealership.metal against the header. And yes you can install the header outside the car.

They're doing fine!

I would think so, that's all new to me though, I've always had the PCV working.

Seems like the small hose connects to that block under the coil? Or is connected to the air filter? Too lazy to walk downstairs right now, I'll know tomorrow.

Let me put my adult diaper on first.

I was putting all the steering stuff back together last night. When I got out from under the car the steering coupler thing with the rubber and the metal sleeves had slid all the way out of the fire wall. I've got it "eye-balled" straight for now but learned something, tie that sucker up next time.

I'll miss Gone's "likes". They made me feel better about what I'd done.

I had thought about trying that, crossmember and insulator already on the tranny, but I decided it would be something extra in the way. Maybe I'll try it though? Worked for you!

Or a long screwdriver. Cranked a few that way. Scares the bejesus out of me though.

I'm thinking you put the insulator on the tranny first, get the tranny tucked up in the tunnel then the transmission crossmember mount bolts up.

One of these day, I hope to get to that.