Thank you for the welcome Mr. Daze. I have read many of your tech articles over at Ford Muscle. I have enjoyed each and every one very much.
So where am I on this project? Like any good project the best kind involve getting new tools. In my case since this is going to be a big frame off project I need an A frame hoist for my home shop. I am going to make roll around stands for the cab and bed so I can stack them up (one roll around frame much wider and taller than the other) to leave enough room to work. I have the I beam, trolley, chain hoist, big caster wheels and frame work, I just need to weld it all together. And that is going to have to wait now because thirty years of dairy farming and then another 14 in a diesel repair envirnment have not done a congenital issue I have with my back any good, so two weeks ago I had back surgery. I am cooling my heals at home now, doing lots of research on this project and carefully buying some parts with some money I had put aside for this project. Friday I scored a new in the box t56 trans for $1500. They may have another one left, p.m. me if you want the vendors name.
The weekend before I had surgery, I made the effort to get the front and rear ends out from under the xj6 and and they are now stashed in an old Dairy barn waiting for overhaul. I am going to install a true trac or other quiet carrier and most likey a 4:30 ring and pinion, which will work nicely with the double overdrive on the t56 (.80, .62). I just passed on a nice Dana 44 detroit locker on craigs list because I had one before in a Bronco and remember the looks from people on the street when it would ratchet on corners if you didn't treat it just right.
I have read lots of pro's and cons on solid mount vs. using the Jag stuff, both front and rear, and have decieded that since this is going to be a 100% driver I am going to mount them up just like they came out of the Jag, the rear may be a stinker to do this way to get the ride height I want and still fit the whole cage in there.  Lots of frame work. That being said, I spent quite a bit of time last night on the Watts Link articles posted here. I had not considered that before...
As far as pictures go about all I have is the truck and donner car as they arrived on my trailer and the ft and rear as they wait in the barn. And to be frank I am going to have to study up here a bit before I try posting those.

Bruce

Daze,
The engine will be a 351C .  Austrailian heads by power heads, 2.19 intake, 1.71 exhaust, 60cc chamber ported, polished. The block is at the machinist now. I have spent hours on the Clevelands Forever site, which the more you read the more it looks like you need a degree in physics to put one of these together, finally I decieded to forget the extra oil line and oil passage mods. I am having the lifter bores bushed and that is that. Hyd roller, roller rockers. I am stubburn and since I was a teenager I have wanted a Cleveland. Because they were "Hot" in those days. And I am big on putting a Ford in a Ford, but after working with  GM 6.0's  at work I came extremely close to jumping camp and building one of those. Horsepower with those is like falling off a log. Anyway, the 351C will be stroked to 393 or 408, have not decieded yet. 60 cc chamber means dished pistons to run on pump gas.
I will be using a dana carrier and dana ring and pinion. I mispoke on the 4:30 ratio, 4:27 closest to that for a 44. Not buying anything for the center section until I have it apart  and know for sure what is in there.



Bruce

Thanks for helping out on the pictures. The body I think is pretty good, can't find a spec of rust on the underside, but paint can hide a lot. It looks ok at the distance the picture was taken, much closer and it becomes clear it was not done by a pro.
Great site, keep up the good work!
Bruce