For the sake of all those still wondering about this truck.
I purchased the HDJ80 from Snowtire in March. The old girl has been resting comfortably in my shop, while I collect front end parts. So far, I tracked down a set of JDM headlights...
I don't know why anyone would want to convert it back to full-time four-wheel-drive, but to each his own. That being said, I didn't do the conversion. It was done by OTM Cruisers, but I don't see it being that difficult. Just replace the lockouts...
For context, these rigs are known that the temp gauge is way off - by the time we are seeing a spike in temp, something has gone wrong. There are threads on this and people adding a resistor to the temp gauge which would make it much more...