To answer questions:

is this a 4x4 trail rig?

Only partly, mostly as a daily driver for all weather, that I can use to haul stuff and go camping/shooting with. It is stock height w/ reasonable 31x10.50 tires on it. I have no plans to lift it or increase tire size.

Sounds sweet, where did you get socket head M10x1 bolts?

Fastenal.

Pics attached of various stages of the project. Anyone want pics of a specific item, let me know. The "fog lights" on the brush guard are just Harbor Freight junk, used more to let me see where the front of the truck is than for actual illumination. They're not even wired up yet. The bulge in the hood is to clear the valve cover. In the picture where there's just a hole in the hood, I could lay a straight edge across that hole and the timing chain hump on the valve cover would touch the straight edge. The bulge gives clearance.

And lastly, please excuse the mess..........

Edit:

Truck is currently on the road and driveable. I have to pop the hood to shut it off, there's no power brakes, and it leaks water from the water pump gasket. The oil leak miraculously went away? I don't believe in miracles, and will be monitoring this one very closely. The electric cooling fan runs quite a while after the engine is shut off, it's wired to run based on temperature only and with no input from whether the ignition is on or not, and I believe this was partly to blame for my dead battery at the fuel station recently. I have most of the parts to fix these issues on hand, just the time..........

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