[hugger6933]

That is a turbo 350 trans by the way in case you were wondering. Now get the truck stopping and steering. Once the truck is safe for you your family and whoever you meet on the road, not only will the cosmetic be less important [as much as it pains me to say being the owner of a body shop] it will be much more fun to drive and more enjoyable in general to have a project. The more things you can do while keeping it were you can still drive or having it close to driving in just a matter of moments the better off your gonna be. A lot of projects get stalled out when somebody dives into a project and the tear down is fun and then the next you know you have a big room full of parts you took apart and not real sure where they go. If you were to have the truck all scattered out and then get to a point of being unable to put it back together and then get overwhelmed or discouraged then give up nobody but the flipper that comes by picks up the pieces and put it back together and then sells it wins. So don't let that happen to you if at all possible. Now I'm not a good one to follow my own advise as I have one that started with a spark plug change that is torn down to the frame and now is gonna be a rotissere redo. but that is not a big concern for me as I do these or ones like them all the time. Newer or older they are all just parts and I can get them back together. Jim