REAL good idea, McV.

When I dropped my engine back in, I had no alignment tool and thought maybe I'd get lucky and shoot it in there. Well, I heaved and pushed and pulled and cussed and bitched and moaned and finally...FINALLY...walked in the house and called the nearby Autostoned.

To my surprise, they had one in stock and it was three dollars.

Kicked myself in the ass all the way to the parts store.

The moral of the story when it comes to alignment tools is "if you ain't got one - get one."

I removed the head on mine to uninstall as it was shot anyhow. But, I put the new engine in with the head on. I had the machine shop that did the block work bolt it on and use their torque wrench. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Getting to those upper bellhousing bolts is a futhamucker with the head on, but it can be done. A 12mm wrench is not the ticket (as someone stated above). It's a 14. Get a good Craftsman or Snap-On with the same size on both ends but with the closed end having a bend in the shaft. You'll be able to get on the bolts past the firewall that way.

Slowly but surely wins that race.