Original trans (the one I bought the truck with) died. All of a sudden I heard some pop from underneath on a traffic light, and was barely able to pull over on its last breath. No front, no reverse, nothing. I was moving out of my hometown in a week, so I just left it like that.
Then I bought used 700r4 from some blazer online, but it wasn't working either.

So I've given up on idea of driving Typhoon to St. Petersburg in 2012, but kept paying rent for storage since then.
Now, after 10 years I've got a truck with engine full of unknown internals (and with no turbo), TC is literally welded back together from pieces after planetary exploded (there's a thread with pics somewhere around - its fascinating!) and doesn't have any output to the front. Body was beaten up even back then (but not rotten, so at least there's something to grow on). Cladding is also quite bad
Can't wait to start anyways.