1966 C10 Auto to Standard Transmission +Engine Swap

[0bad0boy7]

Hey Members,

I am hoping to get some wisdom about my plans for a 1966 C10 that I hope to make a dependable daily driver. Currently it has a bad 700r4 transmission and a 4.3 V6 that was taken out of who knows what (I should take photos of the homemade motor mounts it is setting in. WTF is all I can say about that).

My wife says that I can spend 10K max to make it a dependable daily driver.

So my thoughts are to buy a turnkey crate motor (about 5K from blueprint, jasper, or someone else w/ warranty) and a standard transmission (hopefully 2K or less with clutch and bell housing). I am not sure which engine/transmission would make for an easy instal that I can accomplish over the Thanksgiving Break.

I am sure that I will also need foot pedal assembly for clutch pedal.

Has anyone done an auto to standard transmission swap like this? If so what were the troubles you ran into, and what advice would you give?

Thanks in advanced for any help!!!

Mark

P.S. I saw Jocko has a nice post on swapping to a T-5 but it sounded like that was manual to manual transmission swap.