Made it home, no major issues with the truck which I still can't get over. I do have a little post wheeling work to do.
I need to clean the engine bay, especially the aluminum air cleaner lid so the mud doesn't stain it. I never got around to extending the D35 front breather (T-case and rear axle are good, trans vents at the shift so it was high and dry) so I need to check and probably replace the brand new oil in the front diff. I wasn't figuring on going thru water over the hubs and it ended up being well over the hubs. I did have the stock curly cue thing on it for what that was worth.
Hard to tell with cicadas going nuts the whole way back but it sounds like like I might have a bearing going out on one of my idlers or the alternator. All low mile stuff, kind of irritating.
I need to get the hot start thing figured out too, that was annoying.
Down here my Firestones are kind of a meh tire. Not super awesome in snow, dig to china in mud. Combined with the fact that nobody else seems to run them I kinda wrote them off as a meh tire all around. Out there, they were freaking awesome. I was going thru water, up cliffs with mud and huge rocks, sand... they took it all in stride. If I slipped a tire (except for blundering into sand in 2wd) I never felt it.
And on easy going on the way out fully loaded with the big topper at 60mph I was getting over 17mpg.