Ok, this has been a frustrating week. I got my Jegs crossmember as ordered and I like it. That`s the only good news of the last 2 weeks. We had beautiful weather but I was sick and didn`t get anything done.
This past weekend I finally had decent weather and nothing else to do so I jack up the car another foot to get room to work. laid out a tarp to lie on and proceeded to jack the transmission and remove the factory crossmember. Bolts were a little stuck but not to bad. Insert the new one for a trial fit, seems ok BUT!!!
1st bad news, the new transmission mount that fit perfect with the original x-member no longer fits the new one. The stud has an offset location and I now need one with a center located stud. Shouldn`t be hard to find just a piss-off that the new mount is now useless.
2- I remove the rubber isolators from the factory x-member to transfer them over only to find that the holes in the jegs part are not large enough for the steel sleeves to pass through. large drill bits are at work.
So I figure I`ll just use the lower isolator, with a nut and flat washer on top of the x-member. Dig through my nut assortement and find 4 nuts, slip the x-member in and ....Oh sh*t, the bolts are too short to go all the way through. Off to the hardware store for longer bolts :x Crawl under the car again, line up the x-member again, slip the bolts in on one side, go to the other side and......let out a vocabulary to make a sailor blush. The holes a 1/4 inch off and do not line up properly!!!! Not a big deal, I just need to hog out the holes a little. Where are my carbide bits? AT WORK WITH THE DRILL BITS!!!!! :evil:
So at this point I have removed the jegs x-member and will fix the holes at work this week. Other than a couple of doodads, I have once again made very little progress in 3 weeks time and my tarp under the car is now all wet because I laid it out before removing the original crossmember and my transmission jack is sitting on top of the tarp, preventing it`s removal.
Hopefully next weekend is nice enough to continue work and pick-up where I left off and maybe things will go together this time.