Drove the truck to work at lunch, started shaking so bad it almost thought a wheel was about to come off, pulled into the work parking lot and checked everything over, crawled under and pushed on the driveshaft,
CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK
I pushed the shaft around and sure enough, carrier bearing is toast. Dropped the truck off at my buddy's shop and there it'll sit until he gets to it, I asked him to take a look at the HB while it was there.
To be honest, all these issues I'm running into don't surprise me that much. This truck was obviously neglected before it was impounded, plus a lot of the stuff I've had to replace seems to be OE equipment, and with over 200K and the last bit of it's life before my ownership not being a "gentle" life I'm truly shocked there's not more wrong with the truck. All it's going to take is a little time and a little money and I'll have it dialed up. I hope...