Howdy everyone! Hope everyone is doing well. Just updating truck project since I did some work this weekend in the strange 50ish weather. Anyway.
I started work on disconnecting the various electrical plugs that connect to the dash board. That was interesting and exciting. It turns out that no matter how hard you try to shall always miss some plugs. Got that all disconnected on Saturday but was stuck since we could not remove it over the steering wheel.
Hard to wait till Sunday and ask my neighbor for a steering wheel puller so we could continue. Once the steering wheel was removed the dash came out with no real trouble. From there the next target was the removal of the upper steering column. Had to remove the single bolt that held the upper to intermediate column which was a pain due to it being a locking nut.
After that bolt was out it was just four 5/16 size bolts and out came the upper steering column. From there I took a can of WD40 and covered the bolt that held the lower steering column to the steering rod arm. Waiting for a few minutes then went to work on loosing it.
Took a little while to remove the bolt then hard begin prying it apart with a screw driver. Will little luck I got a pry bar and went to work. That was stuck in there pretty damn good and my hands were covered in grease afterwards.
From there did some small odd things around the engine compartment but nothing to note worthy.
Finally I unloaded the Jeep Wrangle doors and soft top material out of the back of my daily driver truck/SUV. With that empty we loaded the dash board and front seat from the truck into the back. (limited space to store all this)
So that was all for this weekend other then some research for parts and what I can use from the Jeep. The plan is to get new rims and just take the 33x12.5 tires of the Jeep and use them on the truck.
Here is a picture of what the inside now looks like.
