I ended up picking up a C4 trans with all the stuff to mate it to the 4.0 OHV motor, a new OHV motor with an unstripped harness that I could do myself and spares for spares. We stripped the truck of all its wiring



Couple more lights and real gauges.



Carbon fiber dash to replace the sheet metal one that we cut out.



Ended up selling the stock motor I got and bought another 4.0 from a friend who went to a V8. Luckily this one came with a stripped harness, tuned and chipped computer, JBA headers, bigger throttle body and other misc bolt on stuff. I dont want to build it internally yet, when it starts to get tired I have pistons, cams and some other stuff at the ready.



Mounted up a new Ron Davis radiator and other misc stuff like an overflow.

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Last weekend we pulled the fuel cell out to weld up some misc stuff that isnt welded 360 degrees.

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At this point in time, we are working doing the usual out with the old and in with the new type of work. The new motor is in, has all the wires ran and the computer is mounted. The new radiator is 100% mounted. This weekend we should be able to get the welding done and get the cell back in and hooked up besides the breather that we need to replace because it is too slow. Im guessing that the 90 degree fitting and small tube is to blame, so it should be an easy fix. If we have time then the wiring should start to make headway and hopefully have the ignition done with the new push start and lay out all the switches on the dash. The big hurdle will be ordering a second trans cooler because the C4 likes to get hot behind a 4.0 because of the small bellhousing. Two 11x18" Griffin coolers should do the trick no problem.

There was a lot of work, swapped 5 speeds, late nights and things like that I passed on posting, but from here on out Ill try to have everything updated whenever we make some headway.