I bought a socket at sears as part of a set of large 1/2" drive sockets, thin wall, 1-3/16 works.
I use a pair of pipe wrenches on my driveshaft. Works well.
I just went through all of this with my seal. What a FPITA. I changed the seal in may, leaked out all but around 8 oz of atf. Went to change it to pennzoil syncromesh oil and it came out all that week, smoking off my pipes. I bought a sleeve kit and a new seal, installed, same problem. I did it again the next week, assuming that I screwed my sleeve up, same problem. I only got around 8 oz of atf out of the transmission and it was black as hell, and i had been noticing bearing like noises at part throttle, so i said Eff it, and bought a used transmission and installed it, along with a new clutch plate and disc. I used an orbital sander on my flywheel and although it showed some signs of heat stress in color, I was in no position to change the flywheel. It works very well now. No more leak, either. With 165K on my old tranny, it didn't owe me much more. I'm in no position to buy a new car, nor do I want to. This thing is the cat's ass and I continue to love it.
The transmission came from Brim's in Ohio, found on car-part.com. He had bought 5 of them from Ford 8.5 years ago and he had 3 left. Now he has 2. Cost me $600 shipped to NH. I easily justified that cost. I bought the clutch stuff from rock auto for $185. The transmission came with its slave cylinder/throwout bearing, so I just used it, since this unit was low miles.
Make sure to plug the hole in your throwout bearing if you sand the flywheel in place, then grease that bearing up nicely before reassembly. Ditto on the greasing of the driveshaft pilot boss pins.
I tried to get a new throwout bearing but ford only services it with the flywheel. For $700. I forgot to take a picture of the bearing while I had it apart, but I guess you could buy one from someplace else. It is a pretty different looking bearing, needles, locked into a larger plaster cage with a set-back into the rear part of the flywheel. It was white nylon cage with black print on the ring of it. Pleas try to take a picture of yours and report the number on it back here, i think mine is not as good as it used to be as the clutch is not releasing well in extremely cold weather to stop the disc while in neutral before being driven, although the clutch releases right where it should, pedal-height-wise.
I loved the way this car's linkage attachment to the transmission comes apart. I did not have that much fun with the starter bolts, but was luckier when reinstalling to discover an access path from the other side of the front K member with an extension for the top starter bolt. Also watch for the alignment dowels on the block. One of mine came off with the old transmission and took me an hour to remove.
Good luck.
I hate waiting.