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Update:

Trouble with the clutch seems to be the linkage as the problem.
Found the engine ball stud broke, and the piece that is in contact with the clutch fork cracked in half. All this threw it all out of adjustment, and at the same time visually looked good while in the truck.

I wanted to replace the clutch anyways, since the one in it was super heavy (which I think may have caused to the failure of linkage parts).

Fixed the leak the input shaft was having, so new seal and new gasket to fix that.

Found that the timing was way advanced, and the initial timing was at 5*

My buddy had to close his shop, so we had to rush to get the truck going to get it to the muffler shop. Times have been tough on him, and business was not enough to keep the doors open. I always tried to throw a bone his way, and we had already planned to drop the transmission and transfer case to swap the clutch. But the competition in the business park he was in was tough, and he decided to just close down and re open another day.

Spoke with a shop in town that I found that specializes in high performance engines, and his shop was full of Chevelle's, vette's, elCamino's, and some other off road stuff. I told him the story, and he is certain that I have the air gap wrong on the Pertronix... I plan to take it to him to see if he can prove his point, but his waiting list is quite long so it will be a couple weeks.

I have the truck back from the muffler shop, and decided to have Flowmaster 50 series delta flow's installed. Truck sounds great, and it does run a bit better after the timing has been adjusted but not there yet.