Really nice van/ Looks awesome with the white flares. Its cool you take your mom for a ride in it for some smiles, and sorry to hear about your dad. Just a quick idea but in the meantime before a trans swap you could try taking off the clutch return spring and make the clutch a little softer. I bought my van without it, put one and and could see why the last owner took it off. I'm a young guy in a bit above average shape and that clutch was so damn stiff I was starting to get some knee pain. Took the spring off and wham, no knee problems and no clutch problems in 15,000 miles. I like rowing my own gears so I'd like to keep it. And throw out bearings a lot cheaper than knees so I think I'll just leave it off in the future. Like I said though the bearing hasn't made any noises in 15k miles without the spring.
