1. Fired the truck back up for the first time in months to take a video of my motor smoking issue. Posted the video on my rebuild thread for opinions, gonna send it to the guy likely gonna rebuild my IP in the coming weeks. Would love some more opinions on that if anyone has a minute to check out my thread:
LINK TO THREAD POST.
2. Been tracing the GEN2 exciter circuit to see why I don't get a light on the dash/0V at the brown exciter wire at alternator. Replaced 30A fuse with 10A fuse, fuse had 24V at fuseblock. Removed a wire PO had jammed in the "always 24V slot" - not sure what he had wired up to that but it was getting 24V. Next steps are checking the light and relay.
3. Removed the rear driveshaft and got both ujoints off (the caps fell off the backside ujoint as I took the driveshaft off, figure I may as well just replace both at the yoke and at the rear diff). Scraped as much of the grime and surface rust off the driveshafts, likely going to paint them black. Would look a little nicer, like I've put a little extra effort into it all. Thanks to
@adf5565 I know that I need a MOOG 280 (front driveshaft at front diff), and two MOOG 232s (ends of rear driveshaft). Found them pretty cheap on RockAuto/Summit. Spicer equivalents are a 1350 (rear driveshaft ujoints), and Spicer 1310 (front at front diff). Either way it's way pricier to go through Autozone, Advance, or O'Reillys by me for them (Like 90-100 bucks vs. about 50-60 at time of writing).
Considering an NP208 rebuild, mine is leaking pretty badly. Likely multiple failing seals (out of the tailshaft, all over the skidplate, lots on the floor, the whole tcase looked wet).
