From a fellow Cheesehead, welcome to the 'bolt.

I would get it running, stopping, etc. all the safety stuff done first. Then drive it. Then take on each issue as a small project vs stripping it down, getting overwhelmed and then selling it as a pile of parts.

Scott

The problems we face today can not be addressed at the same level of intelligence we were at when we created them - Albert Einstein Or with the same level of $ - Me