I got the parts for the kegerator conversion, and the fridge to be converted, earlier this week, and tonight, Cindy was on the phone with her mother while nursing the baby for long enough for me to get started.
I started by giving the fridge a quick cleaning, and removed all the easily removed bits (read: the shelves.)
The shelves in the doors make the space inside too small for the keg I got, so I removed the inner door bit. This involved removing some screws under the "weather stripping" (for lack of a better term) around the edge of the door, cutting out just the rim of the inner door plastic bits, and putting the rim with the "weather stripping" back on. This gives me plenty of space in the fridge for both, a 3 gallon keg and the 5lb CO2 canister...
...well, almost "plenty" of room. I spent all kinds of time and effort measuring to make sure that the keg would fit that I totally ignored the CO2 canister. As it turns out, I have to turn it so the regulators point backwards and sort of wedge it into the fridge. It's almost upright this way. *sigh*
Anyway. The next step was to drill a hole through the door to mount the faucet. The kit assumes that you haven't removed the inner part of the door and can still use it as a structural part to mount the shank for the faucet. Well, I just removed that structural part. So, I ended up drilling the same sized hole through a roughly square piece of nail plate (about 3" square, 1/16" steel) and used that on the inside of the door to distribute the pressure of the nut holding the shank, and therefore faucet, onto the door. Effectively, I made my own really large, square fender washer. It works great.
So, now I have a fridge, with bits removed on the side to make space for a 3 gallon keg, and a faucet mounted to the front door. Now all I need is a keg, and to do some hose work, and I've got a kegerator.
...where are those kegs? I haven't heard from the eBay seller from whom I bought them. I just emailed him today asking about them; hopefully, I'll know more soon.