I ended up in the north with no computer access for a while here... sorry I kind of let this thread die.
Truck is a 96 F250 ex cab, PSD, so I'd imagine it requires the same amount of oil and refrigerant as an IDI truck would.
I'm going to order up all of my parts and a new guage set at Napa next week, and I can hopefully get a loan of the vacuum pump from my former employer, that sucker will pull 28.5" of vacuum.
38oz of R134a and 7 oz of Pag 46 oil . The IDIs have different capacity depending on year