Anyway, as the story goes I bought this puller off of eBay due to the price being right and the fact that I loved the design. It looked like from the pictures that all it needed was a little help to bring it back to where it should be. At the most I thought that it would only need a new chassis plate made. Well we all know how these eBay stories go. A few days after receiving it I started tearing it down and quickly realized that it needed a lot more work than expected. It appears to have been entirely fabricated using a drill press, band saw, and hand tools. That's really all you need but I wish it was done on a mill as the finished product You can tell the person tried but as a result, nothing is perfect. it has misaligned holes, askew slots, etc... They also riveted some pieces together for absolutely no reason, and the rear body mount is worthless. To add insult to injury, nearly all of the screws were seized due to galling, and someone used an angle grinder with an abrasive disc on most of the surfaces for some unknown reason.
What's cool is that everything is adjustable. The front weight bar, the front axle to adjust the wheelbase, the front body mount, motor plate, hitch, and the jackshaft assembly block to adjust the chain tension. Also the entire rear assembly is modular so it removes as a single unit from the chassis.
One night I spent several hours trying to take apart as much as I could. I managed to get the entire front end disassembled, and some screws removed from the back portion. I then washed the parts I was able to remove and put them in Ziploc bags. I didn't take any pics of that process.
A few nights later I managed to remove the rest of the seized screws. It took me an hour and a half of carefully cutting slots into them with a Dremel, and then using a giant screwdriver to break them free. Being that they were all button head hex screws there was no room for error, and somehow I didn't make one. The impressive part is that I was doing it at 1:00 in the morning while laying on the floor in the garage with minimal lighting in the cold.
What I'd ultimately like to do is to send the chassis plate out to someone who can either machine me an entirely new chassis plate, or fix up the original.
Pulling as a sport I find very boring, but I LOVE the way pullers look. Have you tried contacting any local machine shops? They might be able to do something for you very cheaply.
My problem is when I'm REALLY interested in something, I tend to become a little unhealthily obsessed. I can spend 8 hour stretches of time researching things like it's nothing. It sounds better to refer to it as being passionate. 
