That old Sterling with a Detroit is a good old truck but why didn't you find a single axle day cab? It would have been a lot less work tearing it down. It going to be badass no matter what.
@Donovan Savage super slow, I drove one for matrix a while back that had a drop axle to run local stuff when full length was slow. The trucks with the 7 speed allison and mercedes/detroits ~8L were much more tolerable.
