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Chuck came and helped today, spent most of the time cutting the crossmember out.

I have a bunch of grinding and sanding to do so the bolt-in crossmember will fit.

Ron Southern came by to help as well.

We are close to dropping the pan, I hope to have the pan dropped tomorrow, and hopefully it's nothing serious.

We'll know tomorrow!

Thanks to everyone for the comments and the help, especially Chuck and Ron (Who was quite the race car driver in his time).

We made progress, tomorrow the pan will come off.

Thanks again to everyone. I am completely stuck, not a position I am used to at all. It's always ME lending help, or money, and now I find myself in this position. I am not comfortable needing help, but it is great to know that help IS there. I can't thank everyone enough.

We still have to find out what's in the pump, so the story isn't over yet!

Stay tuned.