It was a busy weekend, but I did get back out to the garage Saturday morning and last night. Sorry I didn't take any pictures, but I just straightened out a couple of those satanic clips (I bent the crap out of them trying to get them out) that go in the trim, around the windows. I only put 1 on each side near the lower part of the back window (bottom of the 3 locations). It'll do for now. I also squashed them in the vice a bit to take some tension off the body side. The only place I found replacement ones was on Amazon, and I'm not sure they are right. They come in 10-packs, so I ordered 1. We'll see...
On to the seat belt assemblies... all trashed. The passenger side retractors are stuck and won't extend (or move at all). The driver side has a huge tear where it connect to the buckle. The latch parts work, but the exterior blue plastic is broken off the driver side and cracked really bad on the passenger side. After an exhausting search, I found replacements in blue on eBay. Just for ***** and giggles I looked up after market replacements. I passed on Retrobelt as I had installed them before in my Malibu and they never seemed to work very well. I found a kit on seatbeltplanet.com that is put together specifically for the GMT400 standard cab trucks. It is much more expensive than I really wanted to spend. After adding up the used belts sections I found on eBay, it made more sense to just try the Seatbeltplanet kit... it was only around $50 more after shipping. So, I'll take pictures when I get them in.
Last night I wrapped up the speaker install and head unit wiring inspection, temporarily installed one of the 2 used dash clusters that I acquired, bled the front brakes, lubed all the front end parts, and made it half way through the oil change. Turns out it needs a new drain plug gasket and I didn't have any spares that fit properly. Ordered a pack of Dorman ones (yeah I know...) as they were the only local ones I could find. I'll pick them up on the way home from work. I don't like leaving it sit with no oil in it.
I did fire it up and turn lights on before I bled the front brakes and dropped the oil. Looks like all the gauges and most of the lights work (aside from the speedometer and odometer, which I have to take it for a drive to check). If the other 2 gauges check out fine, I'll pull the cluster back out lube the gears and reset the odometer to what my old one showed, replace all the bulbs with LEDs (I like the bright white ones), fix the shift indicator, (cable is busted) and put everything back together right.
When the seat belts and panel clips come in, I'll get the back panel back on and install the new seat belts. I still need to get a real alignment too.