Thanks John for the help and thanks to the others who helped me in this thread
I have enough caps to re-do the donor radio however im missing a major component, The schematic says i need a 1meg volume controll 1/4" half moon shaft it appears, anyone have one lying around or can show me a link to one online?
The first delco is operating fine

It gets AM 535-1720 kc.. and the foreign short wave 5.2-18.1 M.C. works well also.. However, the police and ameteur band 1695-5500 K.C. seems a bit quiet, im getting noise and some buzzing in certain places on the dial... Just wondering what kind of traffic i should be recieving in this bandwith?
Steve