my slant buildup

An update to a now, ancient thread.
The old engine is OUT! Still hanging from the cherry picker. I finally pried MY cherry picker from my son's garage, he seems to forget what's his and what isn't.
I've had the picker here for a few weeks meaning to finally do the swap, but "project overload", great weather, and "only so much time in a day" have been keeping me from it.
My son called me yesterday with news that he brought my old 83 D250 home from my cousins house, that I sold him 11 years ago, my son is not sure if he's gonna fix it up again or part it out, but I rattled off a pile of parts I'd like off of it/ if he does that route. Between us, we could completely rebody that truck, with rust free parts, in a weekend with parts we already have.
No 2 panels would be the same color at that point though. Haha. Paint would be another day.
With that news, I got busy and yanked the engine out of my 85.
My cousin is one who'd scrap a mower, instead of putting a new spark plug into it. That truck has been sitting for about 5 years because of something silly that I've offered to fix several times for him... Busted gas tank straps. I think the fuel pickup also rotted off, last I heard it "wouldn't suck gas from the tank, his dad and him had replaced the fuel pump and even tried an electric pump, so it has sat. My son had it running on the trailer , less than 15 minutes after getting it home, proceeded to pull it off the trailer and do a burnout with it in front of his house after it sitting all that time, and within 1/2 hour of having it home.....the previous time it wouldn't run, I had to make the trip out there to replace the cap n rotor for him... Jeez.

The new slant is all together and ready to go into my '85. Hopefully this week.