Randomish update.
Got some slight death-wobble after hitting an angled bump at highway speeds, so after giving the front end a good once-over I decided to replace the entire steering assembly (drag link, tie rod, and TREs) since it was probably the original factory stuff. Steers much nicer now. :lol:
Light bar lights all died a horrible rusty death, so they have been replaced with four 3x2 LED pods.
Stock non-relay headlight harness is crap, I put in a much improved relay harness which made the stock lights suck a lot less.
The local PnP listed they had a black '94 on-site, I went down hoping it had a good rear bumper cover as mine is missing a chunk. Sadly, Pnp clearly doesn't know the difference between blue and black, because it was definitely blue. On the upside, the blue one had incredibly low miles but had been caught in our recent flood. I grabbed a door lock actuator and its near-mint instrument cluster. Not sure how I'm going to adjust the odometer from 120,000km to 417,000km to match my chassis, but I'll figure something out.
Going to the boneyard turned out to be a stroke of luck, because I came across two '98 5.9Ls, which are rare as hell and almost never show up in yards. I've already got the bigger motor and rear axle so I didn't need much from them, and somebody had already taken the hood vents and E-fans. However, the radiator hose temp sensor housings and sensors were still there and I grabbed some sections of the E-fan wiring harness to go with them - I've already got an E-fan and relay pack harness, so now all I need to do is fab up an aluminum shroud and I'll have a complete factory-spec automatic two-speed E-fan system ready to drop in. One also had its 150A alternator so I grabbed that as well since you can't even buy those aftermarket anymore - as evidenced by the other 5.9 only having an aftermarket 136A under the hood.
Not a bad day, been a while since I putzed around in the junkyard.
