"DAMN STEVE!! :what: That is just scary!"
Especially scary considering its final death happen at 75mph in the middle of nowhere.
I'll be interested to see if there is any internal damage that's hiding out of sight in that t-case.
not sure I plan to investigate this... but its sitting in the garage if you care to come tear it apart! 
case is toast, i should probably pull the gears and shafts as spares, I am sure the bearings arent happy due to being run dry for 40 miles, but the gears look good! In fact, the ones I expected to be destroyed (main tranny ouput gear - tcase input gear) looked just fine, and I know those we rubbing hard while I broought it to the new house. getting it on the trailer I had to start the engine, and those gears werent quite mated, and made a hell of a noise... but appear to be just fine.
Almost sounds like you need your Daily Driver Scout. Find another $800 stock one and just drive it as a utility vehicle and for fun. Most of the character without the stuff to put stress on stuff.
Glad its driveable though, even if its only only 75% of the way towards completion.
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