Here is the new one piece drive shaft in place. It is a beast.
Now the weakest link in my drive-train is the rear-end. I will address this after the build is done and on the road. It is a good open 12 bolt rear-end with 3.07 gears. I will eventually put in a posi. I may keep the 3.07 gears if I feel the motor has enough torqu (which I think it will for this super light truck), but we will see.
I also addressed another issue today with the power steering. I took my old power steering lines to a shop and had them make me up an adapter. I may need to adjust the location/angle of the lines, but now the '70 power steering box is hooked up to the '09 power steering pump.
I also sourced this chart for cutting your own bed wood from the forum (I am mainly dropping this here so I can remember where it is later!!! hope it helps someone else too). I will be cutting my own wood when I get to that point.
Today was a lot of lets see if this fits and then take it right back off. That is how I learn and since this is my first swap, there was a lot of that going on today.