Good pics Steve.
Had a distinguished Stovebolt visitor stop by bearing gifts.
HRLHe just happened to be passing through to the get together up at Stovebolt HQ (I hope to make it next year) and he must have decided the 235 on the trailer and the 216 in his Dakota's bed wasn't enough ballast for his Goldwing so we loaded up the 250 on one of his home made transport stands and off he headed north. On his way to my place he stopped by another Stovebolters place in middle TN and picked up some springs for me. That and a servicable Holley 600 cfm carb constituted a trade we were both very happy with.
This Stovebolt community walks the talk folks, theres alot of good folks here. I was glad to meet up with him and hope to meet more.
The springs are used but in good shape but more importantly they're complete.
PicMade up a bracket to offset the gearbox using 2ea 2" angle iron pieces welded together to form a 2" channel iron section.
PicPicAnd after soaking the pitman arm for 2 days with regular blasts of PB Blaster I finally got it off. I used an impact, the wrench just tightened it up to hold it in place.
I know I'll be bending it (or having it bent) but I'll hold off until I get the front suspension situated. Those replacement springs are going to raise the truck back up and I want to check geometry and fitment before bending.
Thinking out loud now. I counted the splines on the 49's pitman arm and I came up with 28 not counting the 4 large indexes. If the indexes are counted as splines that would equal 32, which is what the Vega's pitman arm count is and perhaps others. I'll be doing more research on that.
