No I did it in the car, when it broke on Thursday we had it apart in about 45 min.. I'm using a rear sump pan so it made it easy to get the pan down. This is in my race car so it's very accessable. Everything can be had by air wrench.
Good Job!
I remember when I was a kid doing it on a 70 318 dart. Had a rod knock with no cash to spare, did an in car repair. Took some time with the pan. Rod knock went away though 2 days labor and about 20.00 for the bearing and gaskets. That was a LONGGGGG time ago.