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Originally Posted by 99 to Life
only thing I can add is, the steering column is a biatch to remove from the steering box. Its just tricky and honestly if you're going to reuse the stock column (I think looks best) you'll have to cut it anyway. So that being said, I'd leave about 6" up or more off our box and just cut the column, there will be the outter tube and the steel shaft inside. Once you get your cab moched up on new frame, you'll have plenty of length on your steering column to play with. I like to push the wheel down from its stock location, but depending on your seat depth, you won't know where you exactly will place your column.
If you don't plan on removing the column because your going with an aftermarket column, you could pull the steering wheel off and lift the cab over that steering column (I'v done that when I couldn't figure out how to remove the column from the steering box) I'v figured out how to remove the column before, but normally I just have to cut them anyway cause I reuse them.
It helps to have a hand removing cab, two guys can lift it but more the better. easiest is to remove doors first. Just unbolt them from door and leave the hinges in cab. To take doors off spray some lube in the hinge area and when you pull the door toward you to slide off the hinge, sometimes they bind, so you got to wiggle them up and down and pull pretty hard sometimes.
you got two bolts up front on cab mount, and the shackle bolts in the back, pretty easy to remove even if you have to cut them. Don't forget to remove the ebrake stuff or atleast unhook the cable.
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I agree I ended up chopping the steering column after a hour of trying to take it apart and chopped the shifter so my cab wouldn't be 6 feet in the air. I couldn't get the bolts loose on the e brake stuff so i ended up cutting that also. I got impatient i guess plus it started raining half way thru and i was doing everything on my driveway.
I pulled the cab myself and I left the doors and hood on. Use 4 eye bolts thru the cab mount holes use a jack to lift the cab to get clearance to put the eye bolts in, then run 2 chains in a x pattern and use your engine hoist thru the window. It wasn't all that hard. Make sure to use decent quality eye bolts I snapped 2 cheap ones at first and then just roll the s10 frame under and drop it on. Prob not the best way but it worked fine and got the job done for me so that's all that matters.
Make sure to unbolt the clutch bracket off the block there's 4 bolts total 2 on the pass side and 2 on the drivers side of the block. I didn't notice the drivers side and couldn't figure out why the driver side of the cab wouldn't lift then found the bolts under 2 inches of gunk haha