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Thanks hacked I'm really excited how its turning out. Got the pass side stepup done today, pics soon to follow. And as I was cleaning up my driveway this morning, I realized someone stole my transmission! I guess I won't be trying to unstick it from 3rd after all.... Fucking tweakers.

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Keep it up, you are doing great work! I remember when mine looked like that;

 

 

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Now it's done and I love it! All of your hard work will be worth it.

 

 

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Bob thanks for the encouragement! I remember reading through that build. very nice. It was my 5 speed dogleg they took. and now its gettin scrapped just for a couple bucks.... I do have a stock 4 speed but Im hoping to put in the 720 5speed when i get it. My new brake worked pretty good. got a few things done.

passenger side is done, forgot to grab a pic. but heres the driver side ready to weld in.

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I wont be running a bumper so i cut the mounts off to clean up the engine bay.

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cut off the torsion bar cross member. FUCKING COMMITED NOW! lol love it

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Also started to wire wheel the frame, its cleaning up nice!

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Thanks guys! I love having a build thread, everyones feedback and words are great. its keeping me motivated! I have to say, I do not have a mentor on this project and I have never done this before. I havent really even done much metal fab since high school, and I'm almost 24 now. I was super into it then. I just had the urge to do this and said fuck it. I'm gonna take my DD and CUT IT COMPLETLY APART and hope it works out. I'm just running off of a plan in my head and what I THINK will work. I really dont know what I'm doing. but it is somehow just happening. and it is fun. Anyways enough with that. I got more stuff welded in this morning before work. Plan on hitting it hard on my next days off. More updates soon!!!!

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Well all the pieces of the puzzle are put together, it just needs to be fully welded. Its mocked up back on the frame and I must say I'm very happy with the way its coming out! The roofline is what gets me, sits just over 52"

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no more exposed frame rails

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did all this with a shitty cold.

 

 

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