Connecting engine and gearbox...!!! Grr!!!

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Spent about 2 hours last night trying to get the engine and gearbox into my chassis...

Chassis completely bare and up on axle stands about 18 inches off the ground.

Put the Ford Type 3 box in first with an axle stand under the bell housing to hold it up. Nice and easy - did it in about two minutes.

Dropped the Pinto in using the engine hoist. Also nice and easy - hardest bit is pushing the hoist forward on the rough concrete floor of my workshop :-D

Could I get the damn things to line up so that I could bolt them together? Could I hell!!!

I reckon i'll resort to putting them together outside the car and lowering it all in in one piece. Which is considerably harder as the chassis has to be moved around by one (or more) person as more helping hands assist with dangling the engine/gearbox downwards then lifting it up as it is threaded into the tunnel......!!!

Any tips before I resort to this?