yesterday I spent almost the entire day working on cleaning up the garage... it's a huge improvement from before, I didn't take a before picture though9note, this isn't a "done" picture either)...
I had the intention of pulling the Gran Damn in and working on the brake lines, but I turned around and this showed up...
I stripped out the fuel tank, fuel lines, and drive shaft, I also pulled the rear wiring harness all the way to the engine, and cut the exhaust,
originally, I planned on shortening the stock DMAX driveshaft, when I got the truck in the shop, I quickly realized that it was dented and dinged pretty bad all over, and the rear yoke was in terrible shape. I'll either find another, or have a custom shaft made.
then I got distracted by a buddy who needed help picking up this rad Comanche
it's one of the few Jeep Vehicles that I WANT to own, I actually was going to buy it if he didn't, and he would have been a fool not to, it's easily a $3000 truck, he paid $1000! it's minty good, it's only downside, is that it's a 2.8 V6, and 2wd. both of those things can be fixed pretty easy though. it only has 119,000 miles!
I bought a new sawzall, this one, a Milwaukee, it puts my old craftsman to shame! Milwaukee has a repeat customer for sure.
it cut the stock body mount off in less than 1 minute, my old crapsman would have taken way longer, if it even did it without a fresh battery.
I planned to cut templates for the frame cuts on my plasma, unfortunately, it's not wanting to play ball... hopefully it's nothing crazy, but we'll see, in the mean time, I laid out the basic idea of what I want to do,
that's a 10" cut, 45 degree diagonal.
to fix the rest of the 23.5" wheelbase mismatch, I plan to move the rear axle forward, the drywall square represents approximately the new axle centerline, the rest of the frame should remain as-is.
I also got the tunable computer in, Dynamic EFI makes awesome products, they add a board to the stock ecu, that greatly expands the capabilities of the stock ECU.
In other news, I was able to trade the old duramax cab, bed, some scrap metal, and the electric shift transfer case, for a manual shift transfer case, They said they could have it pulled tuesday, so I'll pull the electric shift case tomorrow.