I've been pretty busy lately, haven't been able to post much, but the truck is moving along. I finally got around to ripping back into the front axle to replace the shaft seals inside to the tubes, and decided to replace all of the ball joints and also the passenger side axle shaft u joint. The passenger side upper ball joint had the slightest bit of play so all four were changed and the u joint was changed basically because the shaft was out already.
The truck is also registered and legal to drive now, pretty excited about that. I've put about a hundred miles in traffic and fairly decent heat (85-90 deg. F) with no overheating on my electric fan setup. Unfortunately for me however, I do have a fan that gets a bit noisy at times so I'll be looking into either finding another junkyard set or actually getting aftermarket ones...
The alternator is probably my next project though. it has a hard time keeping up with the fans, headlights, turn signal going, and standing on the brakes all at the same time. I am strongly considering getting a serp belt system from a newer small block with all of the accompanying accessories. Gonna have to look into that further first.
Also getting tired of my sloppy NP203.