I have been making progress, although slow progress. Replaced the busted up flex plate and extracted two broken off exhaust manifold bolts.
Flex plate was pretty straight forward, however I pretty much figured out the reason the flex plate cracked was the missing alignment dowel on the driver side and the trans mount missing a bolt and loose.
The whole center was busted out, I can't believe it drove across town lol
I ended up using the weld method on the one that was broken off flush, it actually worked.
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