Does your truck fight you every step of the way?

[69DISASTER]

I might as well join in with the fun. I bought a 69 3/4 ton last fall with the intentions of restoring it. Well, after I talked to a bodyman he told me it would be cheaper to scrap the box, fenders, doors and buy new rather than pay him toi fix the old rusty ones. This was going to cost me about about 4500 so I thought OK this truck will be a keeper so why not. I will just get him to fix the cab. I sandblasted the cab last week and found out it will cost me another 5000 to fix it, so after lying awake until 3am Friday night thinking about this I thought WTF I can probably buy a better truck for about 5-7000 and start over so I did. I bought a 72 GMC that has been restored, went over it with a magnet and it is a pretty good truck. BUT it has a 12 bolt 410 rear end hooked up to an SM465 so you can just imagine what it is like on the highway at 65 mph. The engine is turning like 35-3700rpm. So I thought I will just swap rear gears to 308's right? Wrong!!! Need to swap gears and Carrier. 2 grand for parts and labor! Here's one for ya, the rear end in my 69 has 308's but it is leaf spring and it won't fit because It is supposedly narrower and my 72 is coil spring. I am just getting started on this project. WHAT'S NEXT FOR ME?!?!?!?!?!?