[67ChevyRedneck]

After that fiasco was done, I went on to tackle some left over bits. Put the cross member back on, (you can see the offending tubular cross member in the 2nd pic right behind the hump in the oil pan) then it was time to fix the massive trans pan leak...

Whoever put the rubber seal on, used RTV and it was leaking like crazy. I removed it, replaced the filter, painted it black (it was blue and looked cool, but the only high temp paint I had was black), and put a new cork seal with NO RTV on and torqued it down correctly. I also put a new trans mount on. Old one was decent, not all torn up like the motor mounts, but it had "squished down" quite a bit.

*The rubber trans lines you see have plenty of clearance around the balancer pulley and sway bar, it's just the angle of the pic. That's actually factory for a 65 mustang. In 66 they ran the steel lines all the way to the radiator. The way the lines are horse shoed under the car, it would have been difficult to swap, so I just cleaned up the lines, ordered new stub outs from the radiator and put new rubber line on.