In my post about the engine removal FrankR mentioned that there are tricks to reinstalling the motor, specifically to seating the torque converter..

Frank what is that trick? Oh yeah I asked the shop to use a bottoming tap to tap the head bolt holes for me, and told them why and they said they could do that for me...

Everyone else, please chime in with any tips or tricks you might have as well, Thanks...

I talked to the machine shop yesterday and it looks like I will either have eveything back from them today or Friday..

To catch people up that might not know. My motor had 320K miles on it and was burning oil, that wasn't a problm untill the balancer bolt loosened up a little and sheared off my woodruff key causing the balancer to free spin, after that I decided to rebuild it. I have had the block bored and the machine shop is installing the rotating assem. And I am doing everything else. The heads had a few little cracks in them so I got remanufactored ones from clearwater, and I'm getting a lot of other new parts to include as well.
Off the top of my head:
New timing set, including pulleys and woodruf key
New Water and Oil pumps
New head bolts
New harmonic ballancer assem, with new style bolt and washer
New motor mounts (the originals fell off as soon as I started to lift the motor <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> )
And a few other things, too bad none are off road things yet...