Ok guys... Feel free to call me crazy, but I think I am going to drive the cheap black truck home to AZ this weekend... I've driven it a few hundred miles this week and the tranny shifts fine up and down. Damn thing runs down the highway fine! All it needed was the ethanol scum cleaned out of the fuel filter!
Once I get it back to Phoenix I'll give it a proper cleaning, a buff, some new(cheap) speakers, and a few other bits and call it good! Thinking I can sell it and make a tidy profit in a few months time.