Headers had to go in from the bottom. The drivers side went alot smoother than the passenger side which surprised the crap out of me. In any case, the headers are bolted up now. Plugs and wires are back in. The starter needs to go back up, the exhaust is pulled down and tangled up in the frame.
For the broken bolts in the heads...I tried the stud extractor to no success, I also tried welding a nut to the broken bolt and it just kept breaking shorter and shorter. Although not my preference, I just put the headers up without getting the bolts out. I'd like to have something rigged up to be able to drive this truck to work tomorrow and short of tearing the heads off of the block, I don't think those broken bolts are coming out. Being that I'm planning on having a motor rebuilt to slam into this thing, I didn't think it was worth the effort. If she leaks some exhaust, oh well...yeah it kind of sucks but I will live with it.
it's kind of rainy today, my garage is filled up with crap so I have to work outside...I need to work up the motivation to go out and brave the weather to get this finished today.
During the process of removing the passenger side exhaust, I totally destroyed the dipstick tube so there's a new dipstick going in today as well.
I'm entertaining the idea of bolting mufflers to the backs of the headers with 90 degree bends as a quasi-dual exhaust for the time being.