Well for those who aren't on the Facebook or follow my build thread in the members section, I'll update. Trans took a dump on me on Monday night. Had to limp it back about 6 miles with only 1st and 2nd, manually shifting between 1st and 2nd, and with the transmission slipping when taking off in 1st. Tuesday I was able to order a "Monster In A Box" from Monster transmission, kit got delivered yesterday to the transmission shop. Went with the base kit and their stall converter. They tore into it yesterday afternoon, finished it up today around 1.
So I hitched a ride over with my boss and picked it up. I feel like it has a "beast" mode now. Casual driving at slower speeds, you can hardly feel it shift. Smooth as silk. If moving around 20 and you put the pedal down, it'll throw you back pretty hard, and if unprepared has the potential to give a small kid whiplash from just shifting. It's firm. Like...you know it ******* shifted. I love it.
At first I was disappointed as I was leaving for Utah tonight, and the truck has a bunch of stuff going on this weekend while I'm gone so I didn't think I'd get to drive it. Luckily (well kind of ha) my wife wound up getting called into work, so we're leaving tomorrow...meaning I get to actually drive the truck home tonight rather than wait until Sunday when we get back.
But tomorrow it'll get dropped back off at the locksmith next door to my work. I don't know if I mentioned it here or not, but everything is getting rekeyed. Currently I have 9 keys for this ******* thing, which consists of: Ignition/door, fuel door, gun safe, adventure box, swing case, master locks for swing case and spare tire, roto-pax, camper shell, and receiver hitch. I'm getting it condensed down to 3 keys. Master lock sells kits for a lot of this stuff, so I'll have 2 padlocks (swing case and spare tire), the camper shell, and the receiver hitch keyed alike to my ignition/door key. Then the lock on the swing case door, adventure box, roto-pax, and my fuel door will all have the tumblers replaced and keyed alike, giving me a second key. Then I'm keeping my gun safe key seperate for safety purposes.
That's all going down tomorrow. When it's done, my work is going to get the truck moved over to our shop, and my co-worker is going to start on it tomorrow night and hopefully finish up either Saturday night or Sunday morning with my front end, which is regear, ARB locker, compressor, and alloy shafts. Then Sunday night I'll pick it up from the shop on our way back into Boise from Utah and call it done for a while.