Your Build sounds like its coming along nice. On the bed they are not that heavy
I removed the one off my 91 sport by myself. By picking it up and sliding it off the back of the frame. Two people ought to beable to remove it by hand pretty easy. I have been thinking about putting a tunnel ram on my dakota. But then I get stuck and can't make my mind up if I wNt to build a 408/426 stroker magnum engine or a 392/ 426 gen3 hemi engine. I have a block and syeikee kit to build a 392 out of a 5.7 hemi. So what to do. Lol please keep the pictures coming on your build.