Got all that above sorted out, and got it aligned. Has some serious bump-steer and the box was about to time-out. Replaced the box with a supposedly new Ford part because I could get it fast. Lee PS was 2+ weeks out and I'm now needing to drive this truck. I've kept the old box and am tempted to hav...

Well, it was one the road briefly but it's had a noise in the front accessory drive that I hadn't been able to isolate. Using a Ø1/4" rod as a stethoscope. Past experience with this technique has been that when you place the rod on the culprit that it's really obvious. Not so in this case. Sounded l...

Wheeee! Does this truck stop!!! 40 to 0 feels like about 2.5 to 3 truck lengths. 50 to 0 isn't noticeably further. I ended up dialing the p-valve down to it's bare minimum and might just be able to run w/o it at all. Simulated panic stop slid all of the tools sitting in the pass Mastercraft seat up,...

3 Miles: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-kkd3VKf/0/d9e0a8b3/X2/i-kkd3VKf-X2.jpg That's a ~Ø1.55" shaft twisted off from 3 miles of surface street driving. The problem was that it was only just barely making contact with the housing at the inner end of the spindle's Ø1.563 bore. I did check it an...

Well, fark! Took it for a test drive yesterday. Made it 3 miles and something let go in the D60. When in neutral the drive-shaft spins freely by hand in either direction for as long as you want to spin it and makes horrible noises when spun by the engine. Local shop is going to try to squeeze it (th...

Small update: Got it all plumbed and filled it with PS fluid, now to see if it is liquid tight. It's not. Took a lot of leaked PS fluid to find the problem. Need to make an AL crush washer to fix it. Brake pedal feels decent, might be able to use this Ø1.25" bore m/c. Bled the H-B /PS system the way...

Closer.....

On to vendor #2 for a H-B conversion kit. Second vendor at least sent me something. It was wrong at both ends, but at least I briefly had a H-B conversion kit. They're hoping for stock by next Tues, so with any luck I'll have something by the end of next week.

IME it's an unusual part to see someone build. Most buy one from one of the PS vendors, but I've not seen any of those that I thought really addressed cavitated fluid. Some seem like they're designed to increase the air in the fluid. Could be that I'm over-thinking things, but it should be an intere...

I'm surprised that the reservoir hasn't caused some comments. The Lee rebuilt PS pump is here. Trying to decide on keeping the recently installed full quart filter or changing to a smaller filter. Have held off on bleeding the system expecting that the H-B kit would soon arrive, but that hasn't happ...

With the pending H-B conversion I ordered the Saginaw PS pump be rebuilt with a remote reservoir body on it. I plan to return the box and the H-B to the remote res individually. I've long thought that such a reservoir would benefit from having the usual de-aeration methods used in dry sump oil tanks...

Oops! Thanks!

Because we all like pics:

It moved! Under it's own power even. Still badly needs an alignment. Have located a potential shop for that. The go-to alignment guy got kilt dead when a car crossed the center-line and head-on'd his Harley a couple years ago. Since then the area has been w/o any known alignment shops that can handl...

It's almost all back together. Waiting on a replacement reservoir mount. The shocks each came with one and they were carefully removed from the boxes and stashed in the same place, but one is AWOL and that is stopping me from finishing things up and trying to drive it with the vacuum booster. I have...

That was easy. Friend with the trans jack swung it by this morning, looks at what has to happen and says "you got the sealant?" 10 mins later it was in and bolted up. Occurred to me too late last time that I hadn't taken any pics of assembling the 8 lug GM outer stuff on the 6 stud TTB knuckles. I d...

Last time around I found some 7" long shouldered bolts which after cutting the heads off worked well for aligning things. No idea if I thot that up my ownself or if I saw it suggested here (maybe even earlier in this thread?). The shape of the diff casting itself doesn't sit on a jack very well. Eve...

Finally got time to take it apart yesterday. It was indeed the LH seal itself that was leaking, could still see the wet line right down from the rubber lip. New seal installed (again). Need to prep the beam and get it stuck back in there. Confirmed that the new axle shaft is the correct OD at that s...

That's not quite the word that I used.

Major set-back; the DS front axle seal leaks when at full droop. Fark that's going to be a lot of work to replace, again!