Parts to change/replace/modify/upgrade/whatever (in no particular order):
Transmission
T-case
Trans x-member
Rear Driveshaft (I ended up going custom)
Exhaust support bracket on passenger side
Front driveshaft
Front axle centersection
Knuckles, including hubs and rotors
Front brake calipers
Shifter console (including inspection cover, rubber isolators, and boots)
While your under there go ahead and get:
Calmini crawler gears
Calmini steering
AC lift
SLR Drop kit
SS brake lines
Revolvers
Manual Hubs
R200 LSD from a 300ZX for the front
AOR Springs
Rancho Shocks (soon to be Bilsteins or OME)
Then at least when you are done you have more than a factory 4x4. (oh, but it would look like my truck then).
Anything is possible. You want a personal anecdote. No? I didn't think so but you are going to get it anyway:
I was a college kid saving up like crazy to buy a new truck, but when the time came during Junior year my old truck was dying and was still thousands short of buying a 4x4. So instead, I bought the 2wd. Last year I graduated from college, got a real job, and decided that it would be fun to play a big easter-egg hunt and scour the country (literally) for parts to build up my truck. Why? Because I wanted to, get over it. I'll buy a Titan next year to tow this thing around so I can go all over the place and have fun with it. Isn't that the point though? Do whatever you want just as long as you are having fun along the way?
In retrospect, I do not recommend this type of work to anyone. You WILL get nickel and dimed for this and that along the way. I bought nearly everything used (including the Calmini parts) so I made out pretty good, just a tad over my target for the project. Then you have to sell your old stuff or plop it up on the mantle to be a constant reminder of why you ever decided to do that in the first place!
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