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I'm not so sure that dropping a closed drive torque tube rear and rolling it back far enough to remove the transmission is any easier than removing the engine to replace the clutch & pressure plate as some folks profess. I recently helped someone remove their transmission from a '36 Phaeton by first removing the rear, so I am well aware of how much work it was and the time that was involved to do that. I can tell you I have removed the engine in the same year car a lot faster than it took us to get the transmission out while leaving the engine in place. Another 'gotsha' for deciding which way to go may be if you need to remove the flywheel to have the face reground when you have a one piece oil pan. You can not remove the flywheel on some of these early Ford V8's without first removing the oil pan. If you have ever remove a one piece oil pan with engine in place you will know how much 'fun' that can be. I'm putting a new c&pp in my Avatar car plus doing a lot of other repairs, and I am definitely pulling the engine to do all of these repairs. The rear may eventually come out though for a ring and pinion gear ratio change but that will not happen this year.