Excellent, this is exactly the info I was looking for. The way the car (70 Nova) sits right now the yoke is sticking out 1.125" from the housing but the car isn't completely assembled and the leaf springs are new (expect them to settle some) so I think all will be OK? I definately had the longer yoke when I sent this trans out years ago and it raised some question if the shorter yoke will work-Thanks for clearing this up.