They are removable but the tabs would remain.
Yea its heavy right now with the crank and cam in it was hard to get over the hump and the back door lol I'm still trying to find a good way to get it off the porch when I'm ready haha. I have a few ideas I'm not sure what is gonna work thoLookin good! Looks like you put the rear main seal in wopsided, like I've done the last 2 I built. Neither one leaked a drop, so it must work! That thing is gonna get harder and harder to get from the laundry room to the porch and back as you keep throwing parts at it....lol. Keep up the good work.
this one appears to be a pre 70 318-340 pan got the holes in the seal area. So I'm gonna have to go dig out my 360 pan and prep and paint it!
One idea I have is to back the truck up to the steps as far as I can and I have a set of those 2x10 four wheeler ramps, try and roll it down those into the bed. The other idea is to ratchet strap the hoist onto the bed of my truck and back it up and hope it goes high enough lol I'm not sure that it will tho.Do you have any buddies that work on heavy equipment? If you do, they probably drive one of those trucks that have a jib crane mounted on the back. They might be able to back up to the porch and reach and get it down into the back of your truck. A neighbor with a decent sized tractor that has a loader bucket could do the same thing. If those deck boards are regular ol 5/4 boards instead of full 2x6's, I believe I'd lay a sheet of plywood down to roll it out on. As it gets heavier, the wheels on the engine stand are gonna be exerting a lot of pressure in 4 spots. If your luck's like mine, a wheel will be sitting on a knot on the bottom side of the board that you can't see, and KABOOMYOW!
Sorry didnt see this earlier yes i put rtv down on the rear main base then put the cap down then put a bead between the block and cap and smeared it in with my finger. I did set the middle cap first i did the middle the two ends then then 2 and 4 all three times
One thing i didnt do that krazykuda did is I didn't put rtv in the rear main seal area before i put the seal in. I put it in dry and put a dab on the edges. I did offset them tho so Hopefully they will seat nice and tight and wont leak.
Everytime! Lol
And it never fails to be halfway through a job involving rtv and run out with no spares.
I have the same problem I'm spend 75 percent of my time looking for something weither it be a tool or part. My biggest problem is lack of space and storage. Everything just gets spread around wherever it will fit lol I'm hoping soon I will get a garage and be organized better. The other week I went to do my cam bearings and couldnt find them anywhere. I rent a storage unit to keep parts and everything in, so I drove out to the storage unit couldn't find it there either I looked for hours never did find them i was so mad and aggravated. The next day I was prepping the valve covers and all that stuff for paint and went to my paint box that I just got out of storage to get my engine paint out and there was my cam bearings in the damn paint box!
I do that crap all the time. A few months ago I looked for 45 mins for a caliper that was still attached to the rearend! 
