A friend helped me get the solenoid off the starter, and it was fairly dirty in there. We cleaned it up, reassembled and bench tested it. It worked fine. So, I put it back in the truck and it starts right up every time now. Happy!

While trying to see which accessory was being noisy after getting it started, I had my son move the steering wheel back and forth while I watched and listened under the hood. Much to my surprise, the whole power steering bracket deflects at least an inch (maybe a whole mile- it's a lot!) when in you crank the wheel over. YEEEEE-IKES! Upon further inspection, I can see that one of the bolts that holds it to the block is *missing*.

I think I can get another bolt in there without removing the whole assembly. Does anyone know what size bolt that is? I'm expecting M8x1.0 or M10.1.25?

Also I saw that it's missing one of the lower bellhousing bolts. Any suggestions on a source (junkyard?)

Also, my son and I found the coolant leak! Turns out that it's one of the hoses going to the intake manifold under the carb. Easy fix

On the lower bellhousing bolts I would remove another one and go to a hardware/ auto parts store. I would make sure it is a hardened as well all tho it is going in to AL so any one might do. Make sure the new one you get has as much or more treads then the OEM one if you have to you can get a longer one and cut it or grind it to the right length. If you do that get a nut as well and put the nut all the way on the bolt so when your doing grinding it you remove the nut and it will heal fix the threads. Might need a small file to help clean them up as well.