After talking with my friend at the welding shop, he said that he'd rather due an engine & transmission swap than trying to mess with welding patches on.
I have done a bit of research but most of the time people are either swapping the engine or the transmission by itself instead of both. I'm assuming it's not possible to remove the tranny and engine at the same time (I will have a crane to lift the engine out).
So basically the plan is:
1. Disconnect all wires, tubes, air intake, etc from engine/transmission.
2. Remove radiator and shroud.
3. Remove drive line components
4. Unbolt transmission from engine and frame.
5. Remove transmission and TC (is it easier just to pull it back, remove engine, then remove tranny from the engine bay?).
6. Unbolt engine from frame and lift it out using crane.
7. Repeat on other vehicle and then install in reverse order.
When transferring these components to the other vehicle, is it better to take the drive line components with it? On my other car I always marked the location of the drive components with respect to the tranny and diff so that I can mate them in the same configuration to avoid unbalancing issues.
This is an automatic transmission by the way..