Okay heres some pics:
Heres the axle, the night i picked it up!
About three hours after getting it in the garage we got it down to this:
Next day we started, wire wheeling it, and i picked up a 4" angle grinder and some cutoff discs and started cutting off unnecessary brackets and grinding it smooth. (85toy using the angle grinder)
Here you can see where somebody torched off a bracket before i got it and got a bit of the housing. Ill fill this in when i get my hands on a welder, this would be under the area where the upper truss will go.
After we got it all ground down smooth, to the best of my abilities, i gave it a few coats of primer.
Gave it a few coats of flat black paint:
