Made it home no problems, waterpump stopped leaking even
very nice running truck with a sweet 454 in it. I drove it fairly hard at 65 mph for hours and hours on end...did not burn any oil the whole trip, 2470 miles.
The last part of the trip was iron butt, getting up and leaving Grand Junction at 7:00am and driving non stop to Austin, TX. Got in the following day at noon.