[USMC302]

Yeap, I know exactly what you are talking about, we could not for the life of us get a tranny to flush up to the block, bout a 1/2 to a 1/4 inch away and thought, well, the bolts will pull it the rest of the way together, but we kept trying and eventually got the input shaft lined up right by tilting the motor along with the tranny and everything snugged up. Sorry to hear about the unfortunate event, sucks doing the swap in the first place, but sucks even more doing it twice..