It's been a while, but I finally got it inside to get started. My work around the house is pretty well wrapped up, my shop isn't finished but I'm starting anyway. I hooked it up to my little Kubota and dragged it into my shop.
I went up to Ohio the other day to pick up a d44 from an 800. The fella that sold me the diff told me about the scout nationals and recomended a stop in super scout specialitsts while he was at work. The nationals were a dissapointment, but i was there on a Friday, maybe more scouts were there on saturday. Super Scout Specialists was awesome. That place is huge and the back room of parts is awe inspiring. It's going to be a great help with the odds and ends I'll need for sure.
After my visit to the show and SSS I had some time to kill before I could meet the guy with the diff. I grabbed a bite and was scrolling through facebook when this body popped up. It's a couple of hours from a friend of mine in CA, looks like it's in great shape and a great price. My friend was willing to go pick it up for gas money, but it turned out the seller needed to be in my friends area today anyway. I paid him a little more to haul the body for me. It's supposed to be at my friend's shop in a couple of hours and I'm an anxious mess just waiting for this deal to fall apart and lose my money. I think it's going to work out, but I've never bought anything sight unseen from such a distance before and this whole situation seems too good to be true.
I committed to buying the body, paying storage & taking a transcontinental trip with my truck and trailer while diesel is outragous all while my wife was at work with no idea WTF kind of calamity I was bringing into our lives. When she got home from work and I immediatly led off with "Don't be mad." I filled her in on the story and she got a big smile and said "that's awesome! When do we go??". I'm one lucky guy for sure.
Now, do I build two scouts or just make one good one? I guess time will tell what sort of bad ideas I get over the next few months.
