I finished some more stuff, like my front steer end take off rack and pinion setup:
a little movie:
VID
messing about w/ gauge placement:
hard to see but this is a C4 dana 44 in place of the original diff
it has an integrated cooler pump mount (I will mount a pulley on the pinion yoke, this pulley will be a sort of brake rotor at the same time, I'll mount a spot caliper there so I can use it as a parking brake and do away with the junk stock system that never works)
and I'm going to redo the IRS (I had already built a 5 link), swapping to double a arms and custom upright and laying the shocks w/ a pushrod setup
I've already started building it.