So the issues! The rear heater lines are rusted out and lifting the body made them leak so had to put a bypass in place for now.
Looking at the exhaust to decide where to put the o2 sensor, I see the front drive shaft cv is gonna bind at droop. Also see I cant raise the cross member up and remove the tcase drop cause the pass side exhaust wont clear the crossmember. So now need to redo the exhaust on that side to solve a few issues..raise tcase back up, and install the long brace rod back on.
Looks like I will be getting a tubing bender!
Still need to clerance the the front CV to keep it from binding under droop. And gonna need to order about $250 of steel braided hose to fix up the rear heater, but that is down the road a bit.
So what is on the list now? Well I put the new oil sending unit in, hooked up the vacuum line for my Vac gage, and the new sender for the trans temp. Still need to weld in the bung for the O2 sensor, install the electric pickup for the speedometer, and build a harness to connect all the gauges nice and neat. Then put the gas tank back in and pull it out the garage. Then start doing body work.
Got a long road ahead and going back to work on Monday dont help the schedule, but helps fund the project so guess I have to.