Last Friday and Saturday night I was in the shop tinkering away and actually got some nice work done. I wasn't happy with the rear transmission mount so I was in a local shop who only do USA cars to pick up some door/window handle retainer clips and asked them about the mount for a TH350. Sure enough they had one laying around so I bought it.
with a new mount, the cross member the PO put it, just could stay anymore, so I decided to make a new one. my pal thought out the design and I welded it together.. which was quite a task for me, but good practice.
afterwards I sprayed body protector stuff on it (body soot or something it is called?)
the square tubes are 1" by 1" and about 1/16" in thickness. the center plate is close to 1/8".
I'll make sure to take a picture of it mounted.