[cwcarpenter98]

It's currently raining pretty good, so it's the perfect time to finish getting caught up.

On Christmas day of 2017, I spent a good six+ hours attempting to put the engine back in the Dakota. I ended up not being successful because for some reason, I could not get the engine and transmission to line up.

The next day, I went back outside and re-positioned where I had the jack on the transmission. I had originally put the jack at the bottom of the bellhousing because it looked flat. I didn't realize that there was a slight angle completely throwing off my alignment. I moved the jack to the tranny pan, and the engine and trans slipped together fairly easily.

The next couple of days saw a lot of progress to the engine, and by the end of 2017, the Dakota drove under its own power again after over a year and a half of sitting.