With the crane gone we can finally see what we have to work with and discover a few other things that have been done, like shortening the chassis by around 300mm and reducing the width by around 150mm, this I am not complaining about but I would like a full length chassis, anyway now to make things work as we would like.
Getting rid of the crane gave me a chance to do some 'horse trading' ending up with a set of free wheeling hubs, a pair of triple jerry can holders, rear steps plus some other missing bits, so all good and happy.
Big day today moving the rear winch from the front to the back, definetly welded to stay and took around 3 hrs of careful cutting to get it off, plus another 4 hrs cleaning things up, cutting extra steel, measuring heights and finally welding everything in place, once again it's not going anywhere! Also doors are insulated for sound and key locks fitted, so happy with the first steps. Now to get rego done, then it's long range tanks.