A few of us headed out to run PMF last weekend.

Early on Brian noticed my transmission and transfer case moving around more than they should.  Sure enough I had lost one transmission mount bolt and the other was barely hanging in there.  After a half hour repair session we were back moving again.

Coming thru the squeeze.

Brian crawling thru the notch.

The stretcher was as mean as ever, I nearly had it but slid in which put a few scratches on my shiny new body panels. About this point I noticed some new motor rattles that occurred when I gave it some gas.

Scott made it up the stretcher for what may have been the first time. 

This obstacle is pretty tough on narrow rigs as Brian discovered.  He had to winch it after his motor started knocking.

Towards the end of the trail I had a pretty loud racket coming from what sounded like the engine.  I limped it back out to the trailer and by the time I got there the noise was constant and sounded like someone tossed some marbles into the engine.  I was sick the next week and didn't get a chance to investigate the noise further but was pretty sure I blew the motor.  I had ordered parts to get my spare block up and running and was about to start taking stuff apart when a friend stopped by.  I showed him the noise he noticed it was louder on the passenger side and sounded like it was coming from the bell housing.  I had checked for a broken flex plate but after inspecting it a second time we discovered the torque converter bolts were all loose!  Most likely from when the transmission was flopping around.  Anyway nothing like discovering what you thought was a blown motor was something much simpler and cheaper to fix.....