It never stops. Every time I feel like I am getting closer and closer in having all parts removed off the tub, I find something else to remove. Below are a few more items that I removed.
This is door post on the inside of the jeep where the door strap would latch onto.

This is the other side of that door post where the lower hinge of the door fits into.
As you can see there are more of those flat torx bolts. At least this time I knew how to remove them: PB Blaster, heat, and my new impact driver.

After removal of the hinge I found out that it all hooks together. I assumed the inside section, where the post was bolted on, was welded onto the tub. Obviously I was wrong.

The next thing I removed was the tailgate. This was not that hard minus a striped out torx bolt that I had to deal with.
Here is the cable that is attached to the tailgate and the tub on the inside of the jeep.
Here is the cable that is attached to the tailgate and the tub on the inside of the jeep.

The top part of the cable that is attached to the tub is held on by a large screw and a bolt on the other side. After putting a lot of force on the bolt, I realized that it was actually welded onto the body. I just had to take a screw driver to it and turn. The large screw came right out with no problems.

Here is the hinge on the left side of the tailgate. What do you know, more of those damn torx bolts. You can see in this picture that I had already sprayed them with some PB Blaster.

I was able to remove all of the bolts with no problems until I got the the very last one and it stripped out on me. Just like I did with the windshield, I used the craftsman easyouts that I had and it came out......kind of. As you can see in the picture, the top of it broke on me while leaving the bottom still in the tub. This is not a problem for me since I'm about 95% sure that I am throwing this tub away unless I can sell it.

Here is the tailgate and jeep after I removed the tailgate.

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