Ross,
I just pulled my front axle a couple of days ago.
Not too bad, I hooked to it with my engine hoist, pulled the bolts, took a hammer to them and knocked them loose, then lowered the whole assembly onto a dolly.
Last night I pulled the steering column. That was probably the most trouble of the whole thing so far. You have to pull the steering wheel, I didn't have a puller and had to fab one up. That thing was on there tight! Scrounged through my bolt box and had a 10mm (17mm bolt head) Mazda suspension bolt through the center of it and had to put the air impact on it on high. I bet when they put that thing together in the 50's they never thought it would be taken apart with a bolt made in Hiroshima.
Are you going to try to use your original steering column? I would like to use the original column and steering wheel simply because my look is "old truck" with modern running gear.
I am going to run over to Fatman's Wed. morning and ask them how they square the frame if the cab is still on it, and a couple of other questions. I want my rake to be zero (old truck look again) and their kit is supposed to be designed for a hot rod look of 3 degrees of rake.
I also want to ask them about LS1 engine mounts as I am leaning towards a GenIII smallblock due to less cost.
I still need to pull the old brake master cylinder, level out the frame for good, weld in a brace, then start taking out rivets.
Let me know how your is going.
