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Before I saw anything else I must say that my wife is THE BEST!  I have been working on the heat and A/C but the Dakota heater plenum is HUGE.   It will not fit.  This is where my wife/banker comes in.  She OKd the purchase of a Vintage Air system so I will be ordering that soon.  That should make the heat/air option fairly clean and easy.


These are pics of the steering column.  The new firewall will be shorter so I had to cut out about 4" of the perforated metal you see and then I rewelded the mounting plate closer up the column.  Later I will likely have to modify the shifter mechanism but that should be pretty easy.

Steering column shortening

I recently cut out the Dakota tailgate skin and used paint remover to get it ready for its installation as a new firewall for the IHC.

Tailgate skin with paint remover in action

 I tried to use the Dakota floorpan and tranny bump but that was going to be obnoxious so I bought some tubing and am fabricating a new floorpan and tranny bump as we speak.





New floor pan/ tranny bump skeleton