A couple of days ago I was trying to get the jammed CV shaft out of the transmission.  While I was tugging on it I actually managed to pop the inner CV joint apart, so I just cut the boot and pulled out the obstruction.  Today I went to O'reilly Auto Parts and bought a replacement CV shaft, rented the engine hoist again and gave removing the old block and tranny another go. This time I removed the front subframe member to give myself a little more room to move the engine around, dropped the tranny to the floor and pulled the everything out block first.  After a quick run to the store to buy a new 17mm socket to the replace one that I broke on the sub frame I worked at dropping in the new motor.  It took maybe 2 hours to fenagle it in the engine bay from the top and another hour and a half to have it secure on the mounts but it's in there.  I even managed to attach the driver's side CV shaft and a few electrical components.  By about 11pm I figured I'd call it a night so I mounted the hood (which is really hard to do when you are by yourself, for the record), packed everything up, manhandled the old engine off the driveway and called it a night.  Tomorrow is supposed to be another good day so I will connect what I can.  I figure I'll be starting it on Sunday or Monday if all goes well.  I'll try to get at least some pictures, hopefully a video of the first start.  Not Bad for an afternoon's work.

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