Well it doesn't look like I am bringing the project truck unless I do a bunch of work tomarrow. I got it running fairly good and the brakes working.
So my driveway is between 1/8 and 1/4 mile long and so i decide to test drive it and see if I have the fuel delivery problem fixed. I made several passes, each one a little harder than the last. At about the 200' mark, Holset singing happily, there was this lurch as the driveshaft hit the gravel followed by the memory that I had only tacked the spring perches on the axle. The pumpkin was pointing straight down and the pinion was snapped off clean.
D'oh!