'97 2WD to 95-97 4WD Grill and Headlight Swap (SOLVED)

Did you have to weld the left and right core support repair panels or are those bolt off then on?

I want to make this as easy as possible.

 

Try a California junkyard. There's less than ten 1st gens registered at my local chain junkyard Pick-n-Pull at any given time across the entire state of almost 40 million people where almost every other truck on the road is a Tacoma.

Here's what an '04 looked like when it first arrived at my local Oakland pick-n-pull:



And here it is two weeks later (missing the entire engine, transmission, wiring, interior, and almost everything besides the frame):