Actually made a lot of progress on the truck today. Hope to have most of it finished up tomorrow for those people wanting parts.
All of the sheet metal is off, cab is off and still pulling parts out. Toolbox / Batt box dropped, radiator out Bed is ready to come off the chassis, and then I'll be pulling the engine / trans out. Axles, driveshafts, and suspension will also be coming out tomorrow afternoon.
Only ran into one issue today that caused a few problems with the hardtop. Someone (not mentioning any names, but I was the only one working on it) forgot to disconnect the slave cable receptacle ground wire when hoisting the cab with the crane. Caused the cab to spring up, hit the bed, and jump the chains so they dented the hardtop some. OOps - hate it when that happens! Stripping this one backwards of the way I normally do (usually I pull the bed first), and at the angle I was sitting on the crane, didn't have the best visibility to that side of the truck. Lesson Learned: Once you figure out how to do something - always do it the same way. Changing routine gets you in trouble!
Found out the trans has a PTO on it, so I'll be pulling that off as well as I think one or two of you have asked for one. Builder77 gets first crack at it though since he is buying a lot of the other winch setup parts.
By EOD tomorrow (Sun), it will be pretty much down to the final pieces for people. Those who are picking up parts can get them Monday, Friday, or next Sunday.
Keeping the bed whole on this at this point. Hopefully someone will have a good use for it. I used a M35 chassis a long time ago with one of these 17' beds to make a killer tandem axle dropside trailer. Short chassis works great and wheels are in the right spot for the longer bed. If someone wants to make another one of those, I can share details as to how it was done.