If you're not running 9's Id continue to use the blanket.... I don't have an early B, but something I'd highly consider is to get your hole saw out and cut holes in the floor board to access the bell housing bolts. We ran the Lofgren blanket for years on both cars..... if a blanket is causing your trans to heat up, you have much bigger probs in my book...

In my conversation pertaining to my A body in which the shield wouldn't fit with the 727, Big Dad mentioned that he too had to cut the floor in his old B car to get the sheild to fit.