| Well, got some help from a couple friends today pulling the tub off. Everything went so quickly with four people working on it that we ended up doing a bit more than just pulling the tub. Basically taking the tub off is simple enough. All it really involves is disconnecting all the wires and cables going between the boday and the frame. In my case we cut the wires with some left on the frame side so we sould rewire em easily. We also just cut the parking brake cable as its still the origional cable and was quite stretched. Other than that the only difficulties we had were some slightly rusted bolts, a while soaking in WD40 solved that easily enough. The other sticky spot was pulling the steering linkage, that took some time and some leverage to remove the center linkage. We didn't bother taking the seats and roll cage out of the tub, with 4 guys it was easy enough to lift off. |  |
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Once we had the front clip off and the body mounts unbolted it was a matter of muscling the tub up and over the shifter (to remove the shifter we would have had to pull the cover). We had to take a short break after we lifted the tub over the shifter. Besides, it was a good time to take a short one and grab some drinks and food. Once we got the tub pulled off completely we started removing everything that needed to come off to box the rear frame sections. The gastank had to go as did all the stock mounting hardware (shock mounts, shackle and spring hangers etc). |  |
| So we started with the gastank then pulled the rear axle out from under her. That was probably the easiest part of the day, pull four bolts, lift up the rear section and pop the shackles and springs out. From there ya just roll the axle away to a convenient location till later. When that was done and we were satisfied with the stability of the rear on the jackstands we pulled the front axle. |  |
Once all that was completed we started removing the old mounts. The previous owner had welded all the shock mounts and all the spring and shackle hangers to the frame so this took a lot longer than expected. This would have gone a lot faster if I had an air chisel. By the time we completed this we'd lost the light for the night, so it was time for a nice long break. |