Been making a big push to get this thing back on its wheels again, and of course that is when things go wrong. Started bleeding the brakes and was all done with good pedal then I found out my flared connection to the stock brake line was leaking. Take it back apart cut and re-flare with brake fluid dripping all over me.    Get that all fixed then clean up my pile of tools bolt the rear wheels on and set it down. It sits pretty good with out the jacked up rear springs like before. Prime the fuel system and no leaks from my connections!  Kinda cool to hear the bubbles getting pushed into the tank from the return line. Then I find a little seeping at the bulk head fittings in the tank! 

I fire it up and let it idle a bit, cleaning up some more stuff and get ready to roll. I hop in and so does the GF, we roll 5 ft out of the garage and hear a loud noise like the brakes are hanging up... I go again and then back up, still lots of noise. Back into the garage and up in the air to take a look. Turns out my full hockey pucks to help the upper torque arm mount fit in the tunnel better is hindering me now. The drive shaft is rubbing hard against the bottom of the mount bracket. I have 3 options to fix it, lower the tailshaft of the transmission, remove the full pucks and wedge half pucks in, remove driveshaft and put my smaller diameter one in. Quick fix being the smaller shaft... Of course the Grannies shaft is nicer being larger diameter, but its also to long. So for the short term I will just swap in the old shaft. I will take the grannies shaft off to get shortened an inch or 2, also then lowering the tailshaft a bit to fit better.

I almost want to print it off and start checking off all the errors with a red pen like a 7th grade English teacher! I would run out of ink!

The whole ad seems to fit the average IQ of most DSM guys out there haha

What transmission will you be using?  You'll probably have to switch out to an LS1/6 Harness & PCM if you plan on going T56...

Not necessarily, you can use a truck PCM with a manual tune, and the harness just needs to hook up to the VSS. The truck harness would require modification already for other things.

Tons of First Gen builds popping up! Very nice work so far, fuel pump setup reminds me of how mine used to run. I love the drive by wire setup, first swap in a first gen I have seen with it.

Sweet! Gonna go with the F-body pan? Get ready to modify the steering center link.

*Edit* wait a min Breckenridge... Gary?
You those shorties I used to run would not work for you bud. The engine could not sit center with them.

found one of my old bookmarks for you

http://www.baselinesuspensions.com/instant-center.php

that site has tons of good info also

The stock lower links are 19.5' from bolt center to center. If you dont mind doing the cutting and fab work I would say cut the floor up to extend the upper links to the appropriate length.