What Paul said about the truck being on cinder blocks kind of made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Chris, it was a real good idea to stay out from underneth the truck. When I was in high school, one of the guys I was friends with had an old Chevy (late 40's or early 50's) and had it supported by orange crates while he was working on it. That was the last mistake he ever made. The orange crates collapsed and the car fell on him and killed him. I've never forgotten that, and it made a VERY firm believer in using proper jack stands and other safety equipment out of me. Unless you can bench press a Chevy pickup, don't EVER use anything other than good quality jack stands to support it.
