OlderBlue - Not sure if you've considered it, but setting your pinion angle accurately needs to be done with everything on the ground and weighted to the normal truck weight specs. Otherwise your angle is going to be off when you get everything assembled.
Here's a good
Setting Rear Axle Pinion Angle thread that could provide some helpful info in getting yours properly set and finishing the welding job.
That thread offers a link to the specs for a 1950 Chevy Truck. Here's the link to the
1955.1 First Series Data for direct reference on your trucks specs.
Glad to see you're making great progress and hope I'm not raining on the parade. Just wanted to hopefully save you from a possible misstep that might turn out to be a real pain in the you know what.
