Front end rebuilt.. (my turn)

[Prerunner1982]

Day 1 (Wed, 31Jan06, 9:30am-12:00pm)

a bit chilly, but with pants, shirt and military issue coveralls, gloves and cap i was ready to go.. got truck up and steady.. tires off... and accessed the situation.. got hot.. took off cap and gloves..

Father-in-law joined about 10am.. took off steering first as it should be the easiest part.. all except pitman arm came off pretty easy.. Need to run to parts store to get bigger socket.. what size does it take?

on to the suspension... started with passenger side, learned a few things to make drivers side go faster.. no real set backs.. on the drivers side.. disconnected lower ball joint, attempting to drop the LCA to get spring out.. Took two grown men, a ball joint seperator, and a very large pry bar (solid driveshaft from a model t ford).. with many attempts to finally break it loose... talk about being on there... got the spindle off and called it a day.. wife was home with lunch and father in law had to go to work.. not bad for a couple hrs of work.. Darn glad we had the pry bar..

I did find out however that my drivers side upper ball joint was not original ,4 bolts instead of rivets) however... my passenger side.. is still original.. it has 2 bolts and 2 rivets with parts of the heads sheared off, looks like they gave up on it.. needless to say.. they are all in desperate need of repair.. so hopefully i wont have too much trouble with it.. we shall see....