tranny adaptor for floor jack

[DonaldSmith]

I used my floor jack, with a short handle I had fabricated, to remove the transmission. It worked OK, until I discovered that I had strapped the emergency cable to the tranny. When I released the strap, the tranny rolled off the jack.

When I reinstalled the tranny, I strapped it down really well to the jack, but the tranny hit the exhaust pipe and rolled off the jack.

Harbor FreigHt, help! They have an adaptor to fit a floor jack, but their adaptor would be too high. This called for a trip to Ace hardware.

I removed the swiveling thing from the top of the jack, and measured the diameter of the shaft that fits into the jack.

I got a cast iron coupling for 1/2" pipe, a close nipple, (now, guys...) and a floor flange. After trial and error I ground down the coupliing to fit the hole in the jack, and screwed the floor flange to the underside of a chunk of particleboard, which served as a stable platform for the tranny.

It worked well, considering the usual grief in aligning and slipping in a tranny. The jack raised and lowered the tranny with precision, although at one point I had the tranny too high and the bolts turned hard. The transmission is in place now, leaving only the various things to re-connect. I took a lot of "before" photos, so that should help.