Man, and I thought I was the Lone Ranger. I have been doing a SB/BB swap going to the 454 and it has been a long road. Started out not being able to find motor mounts for the BB because I was a noob. And the small block motor mounts that were on there kept making the balancer hit the front cross member, so I had a shop weld up some steel box looking mounts that would raise and push the motor back, so I would have room to be able to use any headers, brackets or fan that I wanted. Then I started messing with the old wiring, and that became a nightmare. And mind you, the truck was in pretty decent condition already. I had driven it daily for a couple of years. I ended up replacing and basically rebuilding the harness that goes through the firewall by replacing the spades and receptacles in the plug. Then I put the motor in, and found out that my Moroso oil pan was hitting the centerlink when you would turn, so I had to pull the whole thing back out and remove the oil pan and cut a back angle on the pan and re-weld a piece on there, then re-grind and re-paint the pan and then re-install. After installing the motor and trans, I had the driveshaft built, but that was all for not, because a couple months later I bought a TH400 and that was another driveshaft. Recently I went ahead and installed the shifter and cable, and that was basically smooth, except that I had to patch the floor because I had a three speed before and it had a huge hole cut in the floor for the shifter and linkages. So I patched that and then tried to get some carpet for it, and couldn't find one upholstery shop that had a 14X10 inch piece of black carpet. Finally I went to AZ and bought a piece of black carpet for 10 bucks and went with that. After all that, I tried to put the driveshaft in, and I'm done, right. WRONG, the new one piece driveshaft wouldn't fit through the crossmember with the carrier bearing brace, so that had to come out. Took the sawzall to it and voila!! The driveshaft went right into the tailshaft splines of the trans, and then, the dang U-joint was the wrong one for the rear-end, it was too small. SHOOT, I had to take it back out and take it back to the driveshaft shop for the 4th time. The guy said there are only three u-joints it could be for a chevy rear end, so go figure I had a one in three chance of getting that right, and still got it wrong. But after that, I finally got the driveshaft in and was good to go. I have actually taken it around the block now, and washed it too. But thanks for bringing it up, it actually made me feel better talking about it and knowing others have the same issues. I don't know where we'd be without this board. So A HUGE THANKS to all that offer their information and experience on here....Good Luck and Happy Cruizin........
