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Thanks I'm going to try and find one of those retractable claws in a cable, with the push button spring on one end, and go fishing. Your right the best thing was walking away! Thanks for your kind words. Hows the highboy driving?

Tomorrow I'm taking it to San Lois Obisbo for our annual club meeting with the Bay Area Roadsters and San Lois Obisbo Roadsters car clubs. Tina's following me in her car She has such little faith. Her comment was "I'm not getting stuck in that thing"
Ken

Have a nice drive! Beautiful weather for it.

Isn't this stuff FUN Steve? Wish I had some tip to offer you to get that bolt out, but I don't. I had some thoughts about draining the oil, then putting a small diameter rubber hose (like 1/2 fuel line) taped to the end of a shop vac and running it down in there to suck the bolt up, but that would be a real shot in the dark.

If it's any consolation, the motor looks great!

Don

Thanks Don
I got one of those cable grabbers today, will give it a go tomorrow after the return from Dentist. Root Canal. Harley battery bad after only 1 year and connected to battery tender! Not my week. Main PC taken out by virus, everything gone, lap top infected with bug, took two hours to fix, bolt down the hole......On a positive note I'm off the next two days! My next engine thing is to find a way to hide the blue snot(RTV sealant on water pump, and tap gooseneck to get temp assending unit in. Then Friday modify transmission crossmember and bolt in place! It is exciting to be able to move foward. Expect lots of stupid questions in the near future!

Waded through the honey do's this week and got to the truck today. The distributor hold down bolt in the pan remained evasive despite many little retrieval devices, my favorite was a spring cable with retractable magnet which keeps magnet from grabbing everything every time you put it near metal.
So alas the old tried and true method of pulling of the pan worked. I got a new oil drain pan, so I could reuse the oil, since it's new and has a very expensive SFR oil additive in it to save the cam shaft lobes on start up!. I want to thank Techinspector for two things, one advice to the SFR, two for the one piece reusable rubber oil pan gasget. Made it much easier to do the reseal from under the truck!
Next I fitted the transmission cross member and jacked the tail of the transmission up level. It turns out it needs to be modified 3 1/2" back to easily attach to the frame, which I decided welding an extension plate to the cross member will do the trick. I went to Van Berbers steel and got a free peice of scrap 1/4" plate, 4" by 12". Then I hustled it to a local welder but missed him by one hour. So tomorrow, I'll take it to hem and hopefully be able to get it in this weekend! All in all not a bad day. I dreaded the pan and put it off, but it wasn't bad at all. The hotrod show last week was inspirational to get off my butt and get to work.

Steve that engine does look great quote on the exacto knife and some tedious work to trim it up .