I left the misconception I did the work on this conversion by myself.

 But fact is, I did not do this hands on by myself. I'm crippled up and
after a lot gnashing of teeth over people promises to help, mechanic
friends who turned out to be not so much, parts lost in the melee, a change
of vans from manual tranny type to auto tranny type right in the middle of
the project, a neighbor who lived a couple of blocks over and had done
several of these conversions, who is a member of this list, volunteered to
help. My thanks and kudos to Mr. Matt Yester for getting this done. Without
his help I don't know if it would have ever gotten done in my lifetime,
really.