I have been sand blasting more parts and have blasted the knuckles, front backing plates and spacer cylinders for the knuckle/backing plate mounting. I then had to reweld the shoe sliding surfaces on the backing plates as the had some pretty good ridges and I figured, being this far in, I may as well build them up and grind ‘em down smooth. Then I shot them in a coat of gloss black. I removed a couple broken lug studs from the front hubs and separated the hub from the old drum. I will bolt the new ones on as Jerry has suggested using a countersink bit. I pressed out the old bearing races in preparation to blast the hubs for thread tapping and paint, then install the new races/bearings.
Next, I began tearing into the parts truck axle to get the straight axle out of it. Thankfully it looks really straight. I might use one of its knuckles as one of my original knuckles may be wallowed out. I’ll see when I test fit pieces as Grigg suggested to me in the Driveline forum. I cut off the old UBolts, the tie rods and pounded out the remaining pieces. Then it was time to come in for the night. School night, ya know.
Frame: 33
Box: 22
Sheet: 3
Total: 58 hours
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So far things are going so smoothly on this part of the truck. Oops. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that!
Last edited by Fox; 06/12/2019 4:47 AM.
