65 Barracuda daily driver

JDMopar said
Great job! I wish I could help on the park cable also, but back in the day, most of the time I disconnected them with bolt cutters because I was adding a linkage shifted 727! Take the big bolt from the 90-degree oil filter adapter to O'Reilly's or Autozone, and look near where they have new oil pan drain plugs. They usually have a pretty good selection of copper washers and hopefully you can find one to fit. If they don't have one, check a NAPA store. They have bins with all kinds of fittings and oddball stuff. Also, I think you have the same type engine hoist that I do....lol. The legs fold up on mine to make it easier to store. Hang in there and get er done!

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Yeah, I think I should be able to find that copper washer. To look for oil drain plugs and washers is a great idea. By the way, I was able to get the park lock cable out without issues, but I need to get the housing out from the slant 904 to swap it to the V8 904. All bolts are out but it doesn't move a bit - even when tapping it with a hammer. It might just be caked in there. The transmission was already in a pretty bad shape when I bought the car 13 years ago, so it might not have been apart in at least 20 years. I'll have to try again - I'll have to drain the rest of the fluid out and put it on a bench and take another look. I got that hoist from my 80+ year old neighbor for free. It belonged to someone in her family who didn't want it anymore. I had to replace the hydraulic cylinder (about 60 bucks), but it works well! WE had the engine almost in when we realized that we had to take it out again and extend the beam to the 1/2 ton setting. I wasn't 100% sure how much engine and transmission together weigh, but otherwise we could not have gotten the engine in there with the transmission attached. And yes, it's great that the legs fold up, because my tiny 1920's garage doesn't have very much room to spare.