After about 18 months of blood,sweat and tears I got to drive the old truck! Runs good, shifts good, and stops good. Of course, I have a few small things to fix... Small coolant leak, small gas leak, and need to redo a couple of brake line flares. The really bad part is that after driving it around the block for about 15-20 minutes, I decided to abc it into the driveway.... Everything was going just fine until the ball stud on the steering arm broke! The ONLY part of the entire steering and suspension that I didn't replace!!!! I'm kind of curious as to why it broke. The truck has been lowered quite a bit, and the drag link is at a fairly steep angle. Everything was greased and assembled correctly, I really have no other ideas as to what could have caused it, other than age.

 

Congratulations! Major steps forward... smaller steps backward.

 

Congrats x2!! Great feeling isn't it?