I spent the day mocking up the cab and front clip
Just for s#%ts and grins.
Looks pretty close
The cab it sitting on 4 inch wood blocks. I thought this would be about right to allow me to use the stock S10 gas tank and hopefully keep the bed at it's stock mounting height. Will see if I'm right about the bed on my next day off. I don't mind dropping the rear fenders an inch or two. If the bed sits way to high I can raise the cab and do some drop spindles and blocks to get it lower. I don't want the rear of the front fender any lower than 6 inches from the ground with the motor and tranny installed. It's sitting at 8 inches right now. 2 inches of settling under the weight of the engine and tranny sounds about right.
Going to need to do some fine tuning. Right fender sitting kinda high. I should name this truck "Sly" because the bent grill makes it look like Sylvester Stallone. (his droopy lip) hahaha
Just for s#%ts and grins I had my wife snap a pic of me in the old truck
And here is the lady behind the build. My wife of 24 years (our anniversary was this week) We all need to thank the ladies once in a while for not giving us too much grief for the time and money we spend building our toys.