Well, Here she is all buttoned up and running sweetly. Complete recap of all boards including filter caps. About 90% Elna Silmic II and the rest are Panasonics, the big filter caps are 2 Cornell Dublier 18000uF 100v. Due to my mistake earlier in the thread, it also has new Onsemi outputs. I also changed out all of the fusistors throughout, and the resistors on the electrolytics board as the service update states, along with a new relay. Lastly, I applied new thermal paste to all transistors on heatsinks.
I cleaned all of the boards top and bottom along with the rest of the receiver...it was pretty nasty. 3 passes on all the controls and switches with deoxit, and I even polished the RCA jacks. The faceplate and knobs were cleaned with vinegar water and magic eraser...which I highly recommend trying if you haven't, as it works awesome with minimal labor. I've been using it for a while now.
I sanded the cabinet down to a 600grit and refinished it with Watco dark walnut Danish oil, and then some feed n' wax once dried. I even disassembled and refinished the bottom of the cabinet, removing the labels and screen. I sanded and repainted the top vent with a nice spray paint that matches the original pretty well (krylon brushed nickel I think) it came out very nice.
For the lights I drilled out the existing holes in the meter housing with a 5/16 bit and used 8mm white LED's. The tuner scale is a 12" LED strip with 3M adhesive tape on the underside, it fits perfectly between the scale and the faceplate (8mm wide I think). I also covered it with two layers of white fabric tape to diffuse it a bit. Its actually not as bright as it shows in some of the pics, and is evenly matched with the meter lights. The tuner pointer is a 5mm blue LED.
It sounds even better than it looks, and with the exception of my HUGE error on installing the outputs in reverse and trying to chase down shorted components(thanks again Avionic and Petehall), it wasn't too bad of a project. Hopefully it'll be around for many more years now.