Well I must be more stubborn than realized since this amp thing has bugged me every day since, been kicking myself. BF said 'make a list' so I am. Went out and got 2 generic fuse blocks today. Looking around to see what else I need to still buy that's not already around the house. Found the switches & relays at 2 different auto part stores today, still cheaper online.

ZERO help from my usual parts store, god asking electrical questions gets bad reactions from the guys there. Today I got told I should have bought a Toyota so they could order stock replacements. Ugh, where's the fun in that? Zip customization. Hating being female today totally but whatever I figured everything out but one thing. I don't know what gauge wire to use to bridge the fuses together that need to be. Do I use the big size wire as the big wire going in before the buss bar in the old set up - or do I use the smaller gauge wire. After I get home I'll look and see what I can find out.

Also with the new higher AMP alternator do I *just* have to change plugs and wires or does the more powerful alternator affect the distributor at all? The coil? Usually it's a snow ball downhill lumping more things to do together with upgrades and that's my main hesitation on putting in a bigger alt. Then it's plugs then it's wires then it's distributor, coil, contacts, something wears out faster or can't handle the extra amps or maybe other stock wires/contacts/relays/switches/fuses need to be upgraded also. Like there's always a bottleneck somewhere in every system it's so hard to get the perfect balance of upgrades/mods.

I'm absolutely not messing with the charging system anymore - yet - but want to make sure I leave options open to do so in the future without having to undo & redo anything between then & now.

Happy to say the trucks been running & starting up fine even with short trips. Sure I still have a vacuum leak but still pouring rain so not messing with that for now. Rain for another 10 days... hate the Portland metro area this time of year. Still working on widening a double-door for truck access to work under-cover.

Putting in the new fuse blocks, figuring out what shocks the truck should have before I buy them, oh and bought a needle grease gun attachment to hopefully grease away some darn irritating squeaks.