I like to take the intake manifold off, both upper and lower intake.Then I get the upper bell housing bolts from the top. Protect the radiator with a thick piece of cardboard , and take the harmonic balancer off to make more clearance. Its a 15/16 socket if I remember correctly and then it should slide right off with no puller.
You will need to go down under the truck for a little bit. You have all the bell housing bolts and torque converter bolts. Make sure you get all 4 of those and verify that the converter spins free with out the flywheel. You really don't want to have to get that converter back into the trans.and that's how those trans front pumps get fucked up.
One thing I do that maybe others don't is take the brackets off that hold the alternator and ac compressor. this makes it easy to get the knock sensor harness pulled up out of the lower drivers side. Also when you take the a/c compressor off its mount the hoses will be long enough for you to lay it over in the empty air cleaner box.
What I usually do is use bolt holes. I like to use a hole on the back of the cylinder head on one side and an opposit hole in the front head. Intake manifold bolt holes will also work. Just get a chain big enough so those bolts will go thru the links, but it won't need to be too big. Chains will be rated by lbs and you should be fine with one rated at 1000 lbs. probably even a little less. Sorry I missed the fact that you have a head off, so get a 3 1/2 foot piece of chain that will accept a head bolt and use a headbolt hole on that side and then find a hole that will ballance it out from the other side.
