[jeffahart]

In the spirit of paranoia, I replaced my tie rod at the same time. But funny you mention steering wheel nut. I had been paranoid about my wooden grant steering wheel. The cheesy, easily stipped, aluminum adapter that holds the wheel on with three little bolts always gave me pause. A couple weeks after the drag link fix, I bought a 15” re-pop. Last year I had a run of bad luck with the truck. One of the freeze plugs rusted out and leaked too badly to ignore and had to be replaced…. You guessed it, one of the plugs behind the flywheel. What a job… for a .99 cent freeze plug. A two day project for lazy old buzzard like me. Gotta love it.