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Message: [QUOTE="Matt_P, post: 1162079, member: 277"] Thanks! Im really anxious to get it done and see how they like their first truck! Well at that certain time it was a corona in her mouth Thank you! Yeah I couldnt pass that deal up, especially when it only took about two hours tonight to make the truck four wheel drive Its definitely a lot of fun to be able to do this for them after everything they have done for me! Thanks, Ive lived here since august, your not far at all then. Finally got the truck pulled in the shop after work tonight and started on it around 530. Got the cab pulled first and the engine torn down. Overall the engine looked great! The EGR cooler was blown as expected, and whoever had the cab off before did a hell of a hackjob with missing turbo bolts, oil filter housing bolt, and other random bolts missing as well as a broken ICP pigtail help together by zip ties. Oh and cross the dummy plugs and stc off the list, Im an idiot and forgot this was an early 04 truck. Got the exhaust all ripped off too. Then it was on to the 4wd swap. Got the transfercase and rear driveshaft bolted up. Im still waiting on the CV joint rebuild kit for the front driveshaft to show up so it hasnt been installed yet. Then after that it was on to ripping out all the 2wd crap. After all that was out and the coil towers popped off we wheeled the dana 60 in and the the leafs off and put the add a leafs in. Then went to work on getting the shock mounts and front and rear shackle mounts bolted on as well as the track bar mount. Then the leaf packs went on and then got the axle rolled up and set the leafs down on the axle. Got the u bolts tightened up, drag link bolted on and at 11:00 we called it done for the night with the four wheel drive swap done minus the trac bar which will go on once the cab is done. I still need to go through the brakes and everything and replace one broken wheel stud but not a bad nights work for a couple of us. Heads go to the machine shop in the morning and hopefully the engine parts and exhaust and all that will be here in the next couple days. Here are some pics Cab up [ATTACH=full]148304[/ATTACH][url=https://flic.kr/p/qM1mnP]Untitled[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/108611673@N04/]mattpopiel[/url], on Flickr Transfercase and driveshaft on [ATTACH=full]148305[/ATTACH][url=https://flic.kr/p/q7qxPu] [/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/108611673@N04/]mattpopiel[/url], on Flickr Engine tore down [ATTACH=full]148306[/ATTACH][url=https://flic.kr/p/q7D9FD] [/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/108611673@N04/]mattpopiel[/url], on Flickr [ATTACH=full]148307[/ATTACH][url=https://flic.kr/p/qM1qVM] [/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/108611673@N04/]mattpopiel[/url], on Flickr Scrap [ATTACH=full]148308[/ATTACH][url=https://flic.kr/p/q7DcrZ] [/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/108611673@N04/]mattpopiel[/url], on Flickr 2wd coming out [ATTACH=full]148309[/ATTACH][url=https://flic.kr/p/r28XfA] [/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/108611673@N04/]mattpopiel[/url], on Flickr Its gone [ATTACH=full]148310[/ATTACH][url=https://flic.kr/p/qLRhUA] [/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/108611673@N04/]mattpopiel[/url], on Flickr [ATTACH=full]148311[/ATTACH][url=https://flic.kr/p/q7qA8C] [/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/108611673@N04/]mattpopiel[/url], on Flickr [ATTACH=full]148312[/ATTACH][url=https://flic.kr/p/q7qBxS] [/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/108611673@N04/]mattpopiel[/url], on Flickr And 4wd installed [ATTACH=full]148313[/ATTACH][url=https://flic.kr/p/r4haVx] [/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/108611673@N04/]mattpopiel[/url], on Flickr [ATTACH=full]148314[/ATTACH][url=https://flic.kr/p/r4rfoB] [/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/108611673@N04/]mattpopiel[/url], on Flickr [ATTACH=full]148315[/ATTACH][url=https://flic.kr/p/q7DaTi] [/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/108611673@N04/]mattpopiel[/url], on Flickr [ATTACH=full]148316[/ATTACH][url=https://flic.kr/p/q7D9WP] [/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/108611673@N04/]mattpopiel[/url], on Flickr [/QUOTE]