More progress this weekend. A buddy came over Saturday and helped get the trans installed. That ended up taking way more effort then it should have. Figured 30-45 minutes and took us 3 hours. It was just not going in the last 1" or so. Finally got it to slip in completely. Installed the new driveshaft and fits perfect. While trying to hook the clutch linkage back up and test it, I found the PO totally jacked up this. It appears this block does not have multiple ball pivot bosses. The cobbled together a bracket and welded the ball to it. Only held in with one bolt and with all of the leverage of the clutch linkage, it would move around. Top it off, the threaded hole was just about stripped out. Man some people should just never work on vehicles...
Gotta solve that issue now. Also started patching the floor and POR-15.