Well, today closes this chapter in my ownership of this truck. Good luck to Mark from Wisconsin in continuing the next chapter.
I'll leave with this final issue I had to resolve before Mark took delivery. 4 days before he is set to fly out to pick it up, the ring gear on the ACME flywheel comes loose. Come to find out its only a press fit, so out came the trans, clutch, and off goes the flywheel to my friend Rob Bonney Fabrication, to weld up the ring gear on the flywheel the proper way it should have been done. Anyone else with one of these, you might want to check this and weld it up proper. Mine was 3yrs old and roughly 25-20K miles on it.
Then off to my local speed shop to rebalance the flywheel. Just a few grams taken off and we're back in business as Mark showed up today, and packed it up with the goodies I had extra and off into the sunset heading East.