I pulled the powertain on saturday. it took a while because i didn't want to just cut everything off and I was working alone. I also labeled the harness, though I won't use a lot of it on the diesel, it will be helpful to know what was what incase I want to try and reuse any of it for a different application. Anyway, it took pretty much all day, but it came out without a hitch...
the start...
I got a little carried away with the work so I didn't take any pics during the pull, but here is the result....you can see where the battery exploded at some point...
and the garage after a little clean-up on Sunday...