Good news!  Apparently the pieces of bearing that were found when we changed the differential oil were remnants from an earlier failure that Frank had fixed.  This is one of the few times I was happy to have done a lot of work for nothing.  The cover was darn heavy so I used the boom lift and the Ford 861 to help with the lifting.  Here's the cover, you can see the gear shift fingers sticking out the bottom.

 Here are a couple of pics of what it looks like inside the belly of the beast.

Some mighty big gears in the rear end

The Transmission

Upon inspection all the bearings appeared to be in place and intact with no more "spare" bearing parts laying about.  After cleaning things up a bit Fenn helped me put the cover back on.  It was a bit of a rush since a storm was coming and I didn't want to have everything open to the elements and of course it was a challenge to get the finger lined up with the gears and the cover had to slide down perfectly level or it would bind on the pins that aligned it.  We poured in the six gallons of oil and called it good.  That storm left us without power for about eight hours.  That was all yesterday; today I started putting everything back together.  Got the gas tank and the steering all back on as well as making a new breather tube for the air cleaner.  This was the tube that goes from the head to the air cleaner.  The existing one had a couple big holes in it and wasn't attached to the air cleaner because the part of the old air cleaner was missing (why I needed to get a replacement).  The old breather tube was made of steel but I made the new one out of copper which will not last nearly as long but was much easier to make.  The last thing I need to do is put on the "new" ampere meter box and connect it and the starter button then she should be running again.

Last week before the weather turned bad Stephanie's sister Stacy and her daughter Brittany came over for a pony drive.  Pippin was a gentleman and treated everyone well.  He seems to really enjoy his time driving.

Stephanie and Stacy

Brit driving the great beast

Stacy and Brit