While at the park, I also had an issue with the truck not wanting to crank. If you read above, this also happened to my dad while on his way to the wedding. I think it may be a starter heat soak issue, because after the truck cools off for a bit it will fire right up. I bought a new NAPA starter for it when the flywheel was replaced in 2009. I was given a good, used Powermaster mini starter when I bought the truck, however I sold it a year later it thinking it wasn't needed. So one day I was searching Ebay and came across the exact same starter, except new. I made a bid & ended up scoring it for $100! It will be installed while the truck is down for front suspension work.
Moving along, we finally got started with the front suspension. Dad & I removed the control arms and spindles from the '72. Dad later took them to get sandblasted. No pic of the control arms before, but here's one of the spindles:
And here are the spindles & control arms after blasting. The control arms have a little pitting, but they will still work nicely (no show queen here
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