Finally got back at this today, goal was to get it back to the hangar. That didn't happen. I started with the washer stack behind the bearing plates, seems .150" was the correct stack up. I had some regular washers at around .100" each and the fender washers at .050" a pop, had to buzz the edge off to get them in.
Put the wheels back on, realized I forgot the center caps, remove/reinstall with caps, then see the caliper bolts on the bench and sneak those in. I was on a roll.
Next I turned my sights to the choke wiring. This started out great. I pulled the choke fuse and found this.
Not surprising with that harness chopped. Went out and probed the previously dead harness and immediately found the brown choke wire. Cool, now to get the switch in. Thought there'd be a 1/8" NPT plug behind the intake like the 350 and I was wrong. Up above the filter or lower front where the cluster gets its pickup. Both are 1/4" NPT. F me, I didn't bring any adapters. I installed my oil temp gauge sender above the filter on my dually with it on the ground and it was an @$spain, so it stayed on the lift for that alone. Plus a couple other things I was gonna write off to get the car off the lift. I also greased all the zerks I could reach. I got one ball joint deep last time when I ran out of grease. Of course the gun was a pain to get going again, but I got it all sans the inner bushings on the front LCAs. Now I could finally have all 4 wheels back on. Also got a pair of thick, square Unistrut style washers on the driver's side of the trans mount with longer bolts to match. I also realized today that I've had the trans full for a week or better and not a single drop out of the car so I must have addressed the leak. Couple questions: are these the nut plates for the seat belts?
And what sort of cross member used to go here?
It was also clear that I had too many tools to bring back in one haul with 2 kids hogging up the back seat. And I still want to rough in some sort of front alignment. Good thing the weather is looking nice this week. His yard is still a mess, gonna be interesting getting out with this open diff if it doesn't finish melting. I might borrow an open deck trailer to haul it back with. Could swing by the car wash that way too.