Never realized that O'Reilly bought up those other stores. They have still been my best bet for finding folks who know what they're doing around here these days. I seldom have a simple "look up the make and model" part that I'm after but no mater what I'm looking for the ones here seem to have the folks that can at least look up part numbers and find it in the back no sweat.
Side note. Cleaned some grime off the transmission to get some pictures to be ready to sell it and noticed a part of the casting on the "bellhousing" indicating that both halves need to stay together and be installed together (the upper and lower parts that I was initially confused over before you pointed out that the 30 bolts on the converter needed to come out). Thought that was interesting, I suppose that makes sense if they were machined as a set but I wonder if that was the same for all or something unique to the military applications like the motor / trans I just removed...
Anyway, last parts store quip I'll share since I feel like I've taken this very simple thread way off topic... My first trip to a "proper" parts store, the kind with big and little boxes stacked to the roof and a guy behind the counter who know what every single one was for was with my grand father. We were getting a 66 Nova, car I still have, back on the road and needed wheel cylinder rebuild kits for all 4 corners. I still cannot express how amazed I was that we could bring the old one it, tell the gentleman a few words about what it was for, and that he could grab a couple boxes and be right. I was astounded... Things I never thought I'd miss.
