Bitch of a weekend, Changing input shaft seal Options

[DNHunt]

Spent Friday night until 10pm, Saturday morning starting at 4 until 8, Saturday night from 3 until 10 amost of yesterday working on the car. When I got the tranny off the old seal was hard as a rock and starting to break. SOB refused to come out and I had to drill holes in it and screw in screws to get it out.It had been done before as there were some nicks in the bore. I cleaned it up as best I could and put in a new seal.

Cleaned up some other stuff. Dragging right rear brake (adjusted venting) clesned up cable runs, cleaned grounds, new hi torque starter.

Put the engine and tranny back in and it wouldn't fire. Fuel pump ran, but no fuel.
I checked the wires and I had made the same mistake as the last time I dropped the engine. I HOOKED IT UP BACKWARDS. The red hot lead has a black connector crimped to it and the black ground has a red connector crimped to it. DOH, stupid CO (current owner). Took a while to prime but then it went.

Wife was pretty upset about Mother's day but, she's got a little time to cool off before WCC and she doesn't want my son and I to have car troubles on the way down. (Ya, right is that possible?)

Dave

[DNHunt]

I'm Sweating the nicks in the bore. If I had had a known good tranny to put in I would have. But the extra I have is coated with oil inside the bell and I have never driven it so I don't know about the internals.

Luckily, the nicks are all in the outside third of the bore so the seal has a good 2/3's toward the inside of the tranny to seal against plus most of the outside between the dings. The old seal ran for a long time against that bore. I have no record of having it replaced and I've had the car since 82. I deburred everything. The seal felt like a nice solid fit so we'll see. I know I'll be wondering whether I'm gonna have a big puff of smoke and leave a patch of gear lube on the road to California. Best I can do for now.

Dave