I did tons or research yesterday and found the same things posted here. I was also watching this from my phone but for some reason couldn't post. Thank you everyone.
Here is what the entire thing bols down to. Previous owner of this truck had the tranny rebuilt about 40k ago. It pissed oil everywhere and fried my 3-4 clutch pack before I could notice anything was wrong. Its a 3500 rebuild installed and good to go. 2500 if I pull the tranny and install it myself. I have a buddy who scrapped his truck. But he gave the trans to another buddy before hand to pay for some towing he owed him for. So buddy two called me to tell me the tranny was for sale. 500 bucks buys the tranny, transfer case, and drive shafts. He thought it was from a 95. I start making sure it will work. Turns out a 95 wont work. Double check the id number on the thing, its really from a 96. We were wrong about the donor trucks model year. A 96 tranny will work with no issue or modification needed. Time to go check it out. So i get there, the tranny looks great. I know its the inside im worried about, but when you rebuild stuff, it should look pro. This one certainly does. You can tell it wasnt cleaned up after removal, just looks in good shape. The converter looks brand new. The drive shafts are pretty much useless to me as they are for a ext cab long bed and i have ecsb. Good thing mine are fine.... so no biggy. I'll keep these for lengthening or shortening when it comes time for a lift. For 500 bucks I have all these parts and can get my truck on the road earning its keep. I'm going to save up for a build of my other tranny still, but this should last me for now. If I get a week out of it, I'll have the truck for a week. I have a scrap removal job waiting for me to the tune of 2-3k worth of scrap in the fields of a farm. I need the truck to harvest it, so it would still be 500 well spent. If the previous owner of this tranny had it built well, I should be ok for a while. If not, then I will have the money shortly to have my guy bullet proof the damn thing as best you can bullet proof a 4l60e.