So here it is in place:
and here are some of the transmission cross member you can probably see some of my concers:
^ with the camera prependicular to the yoke face of the front axle.
^ and from the just behind.
You can see the clearance was just barely there. Well the spacer I had in there between the stock crossmember (moved back about 2") and the transmission was a 2" x 3" .120 wall box tube. So I put in a 2" x 4" and picked up more. But there is only +/- .5" between the upper most parts of the TCase and the floor pan.
The extra inch also helped reduce the dirve shaft angles:
^ this was with the 3" spacer in.
Plus I ground down the rivets and removed on the upper TCase xmember seen on this photo:
So that's the up date. Next, fire the engine! I have never heard it run and it makes me a little nervous. Brakes: The MC and Hydroboost are from a 86 military truck and the ports are BEASTLY. plus I need to figure out where to plumb in a preassure reducing/ proportioning valve. And the Clutch.. Russell makes a fitting to convert the factory master/slave fittings to AN fittings. Very nice pieces.