Pete M

you're not wrong. the amount of sweaty effort I put into those 2 trucks combined with a 5 hour drive home directly led to some very poor decision making.

at one point in time this had the factory rollbar, but that was long gone.

indeed they did. I wasn't able to snag everything I hoped (the interiors had been exposed to the weather for like a decade or more), but I got enough to make me happy.

status update: no change on the pain front. nothing much hurts until I move and then it's like I've been stabbed. got a couple bruises on my arm and back that are colorizing themselves. I've figure out how to get out of bed by using my left leg to essentially pick up my right leg by putting one ankle under the other and swinging it over the side. as long as I keep the right leg limp, it doesn't hurt much to move it. and the transisiton between straight and bent is slow and extrutiating so I try to keep it straight while sitting. no big shocker that I've decided I shouldn't drive right now, so my pop helped me return the trailer this morning. we'll see what tomorrow brings... what really sucks is that there's a 21 spline 242 at a local junkyard that I couldn't grab before the trip and now... I still can't...

@scaleless can you crop the new one? now that I'm sitting for a bit I'll have time to hammer out how this is all going to work.

that should be perfect.

up to 96 will work for you. a bonus is that the later years used a much better type of plastic.

what years were the clusters from?

well, did the seat arrive?

thanks! moved and updated.

found in a junkyard.

I absolutely love that gen GC (and its sister Durango). you're going to enjoy it

if anyone was curious, it's the pioneer bed that tried to kill me. not sure if that adds value or drops value.

so for a quick update, my hand looks more like a balloon than it did yesterday, my knee doesn't hurt unless I move (but holy cow does it hurt if I do the wrong thing like pivot while standing or try to roll over in bed), and I'm guessing I pulled muscle on my rib cage rather than cracked anything, but that's based on speculation due to what motions elicit pain. we shall see what tomorrow brings. I have a couple old pain pills left over from my gall bladder surgery so hopefully one of those will help me sleep. If I'm worse tomorrow, I'll go to an urgent care. if I see no improvement by monday I'll also go to an urgent care. my brother in law stopped and helped get all the beds off the trailer, so tomorrow morning I gotta figure out how to return that.

in the back of my head I always knew that dealing with giant hunks of steel would bite me in the butt someday... well today was that day. my brain is still exhausted from the last 2 days of driving and pulling parts plus I was in a bit of a hurry to get the trailer unloaded (so I could return it on time) and I slipped on the ramp and had a bed fall on me. fortunately my father was helping at the time and so the full weight of the bed didn't crush me, but I messed up my knee and possibly cracked a rib. ow. I've had better days, but this could have easily been worse so I figure I'll call it a "win" and a lesson learned. If my knee or rib turns rainbow colors, I'll share a pic. pain is high, but so far swelling has been minimal. I've got more swelling in my hand where that tiny ant bit me yesterday.

and this is what I'm unloading this morning. numbers 21-24. finally found a couple longbeds.

totally forgot to add in the return trip down the east coast. so these are numbers 16-20. all shorts

You know that's on the list of I ever roll it. even if just for a weekend before I start swapping parts into another KJ body.

The DIY master list (link in my signature) has a link with all the various stock shaft lengths. I recommend getting new one made. The aren't all that much.

Send me a private message with an address and I'll send ya out a couple club magnets and you can leave one with his truck.

You need to know what gearing you have now. Rules of thumb: 2.5+4spd=3.55 2.5+5spd=4.10 2.5+Aw4=4.56

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