Lots of stuff done this week!

I finally managed to get the transmission apart and the casings cleaned up and painted. Next week I'll order a rebuild kit and put new bearings and gaskets in it so it's ready to go. Then I'll move on to the shifter, clutch and bell housing so it's all ready to drop into the car in the spring. There's still a lot of work to do, but at least I won't be TOTALLY covered in grease as I'm working on it. Notice the tailshaft housing has not been tapped yet for the shifter - I'll get to that next week and start restoring and mounting the shifter assembly.

In addition to that - Santa (okay, UPS) delivered part of the front end:

Yup! That's a Chassis Engineering bolt - in crossmember. I'll paint it this weekend before I put it in storage for the winter... I'm running out of good weather - and I'm afraid it'll be freezing by the time I get the whole front-end rebuilt, and even if I did, I wouldn't be able to drop in the motor yet anyway: I still need to do the clutch, bellhousing, rebuild the transmission, and then I want to give the motor a good cleaning and a fresh coat of paint. Maybe new valve covers, too.


Now I'm waiting on the Mustang II components, and the transmission rebuild kit...