[caseyjones]

I'm about a month away from seeing the truck again. Time to start collecting parts and prepping for the next steps. I'm going to see if I can reposition the leaf springs on the outside of the frame rails on this trip - the rear needs to come down some more and I don't want to use blocks if I don't have to.

I hit up the Pick-n-Pull today for the 50% sale and grabbed some stuff. I plan to buy Ford Ranger rear shackle mounts and use stock ranger shackles. The brackets are cheap new, but the shackles are not. Got a pair of shackles, didn't even have to cut anything (thank you PNW, no salt on the roads). Also snagged a couple of pedal assemblies (2nd gen S-10 on the left, GMT400 truck on the right) and a LS throttle cable.

Not sure if the column levers will work but they cost me a total of $4, so worth a shot. I'll ship all this back to SD, and I'm working on the rest of my plan for the trip. Hoping to finalize all of the suspension and steering on this trip, maybe get the brakes sorted out too.