You need to assess your situation from outside of the box you're stuck in. First, yes. Try the valve body. But if you need to pull the trans again, change what needs to be changed to get the trans out on its own. You have the skill, the equipment and the time to do it.
You can't tell me that after all you've been through, that it would not be worth some extra time to make things easier on yourself.
Sorry for the tough love, but damn...
That ISNT gonna happen.. I would have to cut the WHOLE interior
out and start over.. plus I would have to cut part of the
dash(lower part) then cut out my seat mounts and the drive
shaft loop and the X-bracing on the chassis... I built this
thinking I wouldnt be pulling the trans... IF I could move
the whole interior I wouldnt have room for myself.. hell I
had to move the engine/trans over 1" to the right to give me
just a bit of room..... so NOPE none of that is gonna happen..
if needed I'll pull the engine/trans one again.. but I
will find a trans dyno to test it before it goes back in..
I can see you have never built a SMALL car... I deal in
.010" for clearance on a lot of the stuff
