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Easy, crawl under the vehicle with a screwdriver and short it between the battery terminal at the starter to the terminal for the solenoid (purple wire, I think). What you are doing is bypassing all the wiring to the solenoid and giving it a straight shot to the battery.
It sounds like the starter relay isn't sending power to the starter solenoid. A fast way to find out is to take a screwdriver and short the battery terminal to the solenoid start terminal. If it cranks over, you have a bad relay or bad wiring.
Familiarize yourself with rust converter. It works great. Just sand the bad areas of the rust to get it smooth and the bad paint off then wash the truck, dry it and paint on the rust converter. There is some stuff called 1 Step that is about $35 a gallon.
Jeez, you ain't kidding. ****, it's nothing more than a stripped and modified Jeep that should have cost about $25k to produce!
And what kind of trailer to haul a 120 mm mortar and ammo that you can pull behind a Jeep sized vehicle costs ONE MILLION DOLLARS?
Most mid sized US built diesel engines will bolt right up to the tranny. You may have to fabricate the motor mounts. Also you may be able to pick up a NHC250 Cummins out of a US military M800 series truck and turbocharge it and turn it up some. You could easily turn 300 hp and 600-700 ftlbs...
I don't know if there is a demand for 2 1/2 ton Rockwell axles in Hawaii but around here you can get $1500 for a set of one steering axle and one rear axle.
It is not the axle you have to worry about but the Sprague transfer case. You will have to either drop the front drive shaft or replace the front tow mount or get an axle clamp tow rig.