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Yes pull the drive flanges, fashion a bearing cover out of a plastic lid to something, cut a hole in the middle to let the shaft protrude, this will keep the rain out of the bearings somewhat. Don’t worry about rain getting in the center chunk, it’s trash, you will need to replace it later.

If I took that title with the Florida bs written on it to a Texas DMV, they wouldn’t care. So that branding means nothing in 49 other states.

Why on earth did you involve wife with any of this? Toy acquisitions always need to happen under the radar!!!

In frame rebuild? Usually that isn’t possible on trucks this old.

Any car battery will work. Group 51 is close to stock. The 100 amp system was overcharging due to the voltage regulator being set too high. It’s on the firewall. Admittedly the early 100 amp systems with the selenium rectifier failed frequently (they burned up, the thing in the grille), but...

Cool! As suspected, the 100 amp alternator has been replaced. Does your contact there have more stuff that needs re-homing?

42 year old truck passin' the modern trucks like they be up on blocks

That is the bead lock. Nobody uses them. You need to disassemble the wheel for sandblast! And DONT sandblast the radiator!!!! You did!!!

Try Vilas Motor Works in Bryan TX. They are top notch and know these engines.

Is your lucky day, usually have 3 little swimming pools there.

The type of operation you described came about on the GMC deuce with the automatic transmission. The G749 series, M135, M211 etc.

They pop up on ebay occasionally, set up a notification, but hurry, they get snapped up fast.

Go with the JW Speaker military headlights, totally BA

Does engine turn? Lots of openings pointed up with no cover ….

Still got trunnion. Off a M35A3. Should clean up fine. Too heavy for UPS.

Yeah you did good, with 11.00-24.5’s you can get a comfortable 65 mph out of the truck. Simp on here put 10s of thousands of miles on one cross country before an oopsie happened. They are as dependable as the sun rising.

Those brought around $10k + at auction back when they were sold.

These take out trunnions come available a lot when people do "bobbed deuces". I think I have one. You can have it, motor freight will cost you about $200.

Wow good job with the archeology! The yellow paint was for gas detection I believe and was only applied at certain eras of the war.