Hi Jimmy V
Even if you give your tranny another test run and there is serious problems you'll have to remove/replace. If someone helps you thats great, once its on the floor it can be disassembled in a very short time. Two or three sockets sizes will do the trick and a puller.
I found the rebuild kit at a jobber for about $130.00, I don't have a bearing heater but I improvised with an old pot on my coleman stove and they slipped on real easy. After all if you are going to own this age of truck you might as well put yourself to work as you will save lots of $$$ doing it yourself, plus the bragging rights.
