went to gary's (mudrak) first thing saturday morning and ended up hanging out until about 3.30pm. it was gary's 45th birthday!!!!!
picked up my bumper from him (thanks again peesalot
) and a couple of other small parts and finally made it home around 5pm.
i had moved the d60 housing outside the night before to get ready to strip all the old paint, grease and dirt off. that took a good 4 hours between saturday night and sunday morning, but it's purdy now. gave it a couple of coats of paint and spent some time cleaning up the garage and moving a few things out of my way.
i soon discovered that i did not have all the parts to put the 60 together so i decided to work on the t-case insatll instead. i will be going with the stock gm cast adapter afterall. i grabbed one, chucked it up in the mill and slotted the one hole so i could use it with the atlas. only took a couple of minutes and worked out pretty well. after a quick test fir i bead blasted the adapter and painted it as well.
while that was drying, i got all my hardware and the trans jack ready for what i hope to be the final atlas install. i had to cut part of the tub (reinforcement rib) off so i could tuck the t-case as high as possible. that took more work than expected and i ended up having to use a cut-off wheel for most of it. what a mess.
next i bolted the adapter to the tans and then mated the atlas up to it. all that went without a hitch and pretty much killed the day.
ironpig70 stopped by for a few hours and gave me a hand with a few things. thanks again travis!!!!!!