Update

I still wasn't convinced that the tranny pan was the cause of the fluid leak so I put the jeep up on ramps today and crawled under the pan while it was idling. With a flashlight and an inspection mirror, I was able to tell the pan was okay but the tranny cooler return line was leaking. Most of my other work has been in the evening and the light of day really helped to see what was going on. I tightened the fitting hoping the leak would stop, but it only tore the hardline more and started to gush fluid. The fitting was in pretty bad shape (looked much like the power steering did) and was leaking where the tubing and nut joined. No hope getting a replacement on a Sunday so I'll swing by the local Parker Hannifin hose dealer and pick up a fitting tomorrow. The oem fitting has a hard line that follows the contours of the tranny, but rubber hose will be more than adequate for our purposes. I found a pic of the tranny online pre labeled by someone having a problem troubleshooting leaks of their own. They labeled the diagram, so don't blame me for the spelling error. The fitting in question is all the way to the right towards the rear of the tranny.Since I couldn't run the truck with the return line removed, I started to tackle the rear window. My dad came over and helped repair / rebuild the bottom track of the window with some high performance Belzona elastomers and supermetal. The window looks much better and is much stronger but I haven't bonded the guide pieces on yet. Hopefully that will happen tomorrow and the window will finally be checked off as done.

After that, I ripped out the glove box and stock radio and installed a Sony CD/MP3 head unit. I was lazy and didn't want to hack saw out the stock radio location, so the Sony sits in the glove box area pop riveted to the bottom of the stock radio. Looks pretty awful but it works great. Had to remove the glove box door but it will all go back together when we remove the headunit at the end of the rally. Also installed the rear 6x9 speakers on top of the rear wheel wells. Amazing what a difference four decent speakers and a digital tuner make! No speaker boxes, just sheet metal screwed into the body. Actually sounds pretty good. More pics tomorrow.