Good news, bad news

[sjarrett71]

Ok, I've had my 84 2wd shortbed for a while now and have been trying to get it to run as I get money for parts. As you can assume, it's going slow. Well it's my birthday tomorrow so I decided to treat myself to a few miscellaneous parts. Well I got home and got most of them put on. One of the parts I bought was a battery. Well I hook the battery up and turn the key and the thing kicks over! I was so excited. I just bumped the starter since I don't have coolant in it and the spark plug wires aren't even on it yet. But still it kicked over!! That's the good news.

The bad news is when I changed the oil, coolant gushed out first. Then the oil came out. I originally bought the truck without an intake or carb, they were stolen from the previous owner. I guess when the thieves took them, they let coolant get in the engine.

Does anyone know, besides the obvious, what kind of problems if any I should expect? I know the engine isn't locked up because it kicked over when I hit the key. I plan on changing the plugs and I will spray some oil in the cylinders when I do.

Also, I have wires coming out of everywhere. Some are terminated at weather tight connections and some are just cut off and dangling there. I am sure I can figure it out but what wires do I actually need? I have a 305 with an Edelbrock carb, A/C, and a 700R4 tranny. I know I can't put the truck back to original without a quadrajet carb and factory intake but I would like to clean it up a bit and get rid of the wires I don't need. I'm thinking I just need power to the coil, the alternator wires, A/C wires, temp sensor, and the wires to the tranny. Any pictures of what wires I can eliminate would be great.

P.S. Sorry for the LOOOOOOOOONG post.