When there is room - always!
Trick always seem to be to keep the crank from turning
The first times I put the transmission in I was working with the car on jack stands, so who knows it was long time ago now. But this last time was only a few years ago, we pushed the car across the yard where I rent and put it on a lift. Plenty of room, as far as I know I did it right. No problems for a couple years. Replaced them all with new ones and had my mechanic check my work. He happened to have a set of new ARP bolts on hand since he does a lot of work on FWD and RWD mopars. This is the same guy who built the headers - sometimes he'll let me use one of the lifts if things aren't too busy. This cropped up at the same time as the headers were to be done, so when the headers got done we went fot the source of the rattle in gear. Yould think I'd have recognized it right away - but it was a little different from the times I broke the flexplate - and besides, my mind wasn't allowing for that possibility...