With the summer in full swing, the temperatures have gotten to a point where its oppressive. The temps will be in the high 80s/low 90s and feel like its over 100, especially if you're in the sun. This is where the Scion falls. Since the car's sitting right dead in the sun, the first day I started doing work on the car with the steering correction, I was suffering. With that one time, I said screw it and we took time to set up our collapsible tent awning thingy over the worksite. With this thing, it will shade the car and the wider work area from the sun. While it won't do anything about the heat, it will at least stop the sun from sun baking me while I work on the car. With the tent set up over the work area, I pulled out the power winch to hook up to the Scion and to the S10 which was parked behind the engine crane, which is staged over the engine, and pulled the car up to the engine to get things ready. Of course, the tent was set up with it being centered over the engine so pulling the car pulled it under the tent where I needed it to be in the end. With the car staged, my next move was to get the transmission remounted on two of the mounts so I can at least keep it stationary while trying to get the engine seated to its bellhousing. In its current state, the transmission is flopping around and even with the thing on jacks, trying to get the engine bolted up would be troublesome. And who knows, even if I did get the engine bolted up, trying to get things lined up to secure the mounts might be problematic then. I don't know, I just figured that getting the transmission secured would be one less thing to worry about while trying to work with the engine. One of the things that I discovered while moving the transmission around is the idea that in the process of rolling the car back and forth and moving the transmission around, the driver's side CV axle twisted the boot and the axle separated from the half mounted in the transmission. All this means is that after I do get everything back together, I'll have to go ahead and pull the remnants of that CV axle out and replace the unit (luckily its under warrantee). Of course this was a bit of a problem as it involved using a modified axle removal tool that may or may not hold up to another beating with the slide hammer. Hopefully with this axle having just been replaced the removal won't be as bad as it is with something that hadn't been out in 15 years. At this point the front mount for the transmission is the only thing left but it needs replacing. Now, I could just temporarily weld up the mount to make it solid in order to just get the thing mounted, then replace it after everything is back together, or leave it be and just not drive the car until the mount is replaced. There's pros and cons to both approaches. Making a solid mount will take away the dampening effect at that point, putting undue stress on the transmission body, which could risk cracking the transmission body since its aluminum. Obviously driving w/o a mount will put undue stress on the other mounts, facilitating a replacement for everything even sooner. Obviously, welding the thing will just allow me to get things back together and running just long enough to be satisfied all is well before I replace the unit with the right piece. Either way, next course of action will be getting the engine in place and mounted to the transmission.
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