thanks for the welcomes!! I don't think I'll be building the deisel into a dedicated wheeler. prolly just some rear springs in front and blocks in back. just enough to fit some 31's nicely....and I have a 4.7 to 1 t case laying around I may throw on there. I just wanna be able to do mild stuff to get to a campin' spot or something. I seems real nice though so far! Not the peppiest truck out there but it does well. the good part is that I got it just like it is for 200 bucks!!