Update 10/9/20
Killing time before leaving for Dave’s Cabin tomorrow morning. The truck is shaping up really well. Just finished plugs, wires, distributor cap and rotor button. Everything is oem except for the wires which are NGK. The truck is running pretty well at this point. The plugs and wires were in dire need of replacement. It’s made a huge improvement in the running condition. I didn’t have a distributor cap rubber seal or a “dizzy o-ring” but I’ll probably do them soon and get some extras to throw on the shelf. We’re stockpiling 80 parts and have a nice little collection going now. It much more fun to work on the trucks when you don’t have to stop and put in an order. Who knew?
The interior is miles ahead of where it was thanks to new door cards, window runs, seats etc etc etc. I’ll still want to find better seats but these are workable in the meantime. Off the top of my head, I think we’ll move next to brakes, a lift kit if I can find one for cheap, and new fluid in the diffs. I may have to mess with the lockers to get them to engage. I’m not sure they were used much if ever.
We had a second key made just in time for me to lose one of them. I’m glad I didn’t buy that house with the nice shop behind it. It’s in a part of town that is ten times worse than here and even here I’ve had a few things walk off when I had set them outside the open door temporarily. Just a chair and an old ladder, as far as I can tell... Last night I decided to capitalize on it and left some scrap metal and a contractor bucket etc as well as a modern gas can complete with safety spout that I hate. This morning everything was gone except the gas can lol
