I was finally able to make some progress today. I got the driveshaft in and while cleaning up the bolts for the drive flange, I noticed the threads from the crank hub adapter whatchamacallit were still on the bolts. I decided to drill the 1/4-20 holes larger and tap them for 5/16-18, then drill the driver and flange. It worked out well. I made sure to loctite the bolts too.
I decided while it was mostly warm to go ahead and put the motor back in place. While working that the dogs started acting weird:
I'll be damned if Delia didnt kick a mouse up. It came out of the blower housing, ran right in front of me, back toward the trans. To make things worse, it had 3 babies attached. I dug out some of the nest and pushed it outside. Pupper was still on rodent lookout
I never found the mouse. But the good news is I had it running on ether. I had to jump the solenoid and the starter was acting weird, but it ran good for about 10 seconds. Im really excited! Need to do some electrical digging and see why it wont start with the key. To be continued!