Am I nuts? 1940 Plymouth Commercial Car (Truck)

After things have settled down from summer vacations, I have accomplished a few things on the truck. I took the cab off the frame one more time so I could do the manual transmission swap. I was a bit concerned that it wouldn't work as the ring gear for the manual flywheel is bigger than the automatic. I was afraid it would not fit in the bell housing, but it all worked since the starter is attached to the manual bell housing so gets held in the proper position. The things I did have to change was to install a big bushing in the crank for the tranny nose piece, get a new crank angle sensor since the automatic flexplate and manual flywheel position notches are a little different. I also had to fabricate a splash shield since my donor tranny did not come with one and the automatic one is slightly smaller. I searched high and low for a new one, but wound up making one out of two donors. I also had to modify the shift lever to decrease the rearward angle so it did not hit the seats in the smaller Plymouth cab.

I fabbed up the finalized cab mounts as we had to raise the back of the cab by 1/2 inch. I also had to malletize the firewall slightly to clear the distributer. The cab is now sitting in it's final position on the frame and now I am re aligning all the body panels. Next up is the position of the running boards and rear fenders. Hopefully I can get to that in two weeks when I am back in town.

I picked up a new drive shaft from Driveslines NW, so now the tranny is connected to the differential. Just need to order a radiator that will fit in the nose.

Oh, and I got the new "Plymouth" script for the nose from a guy back east who had sold his truck. I also got the nose trim straitened. Turns out it is chrome plated brass and not stainless as I thought. I had him extent the trim past the old hand crank hole, and now it is off at the platers.