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Just quick follow up on how mine worked out in the end. I altered my front end by adding in 1/4 of shim on the back of the spring perch to get just a tad more caster, I measured it as a total caster of 4 degrees. I can report now several years down the road that it worked like a charm...

Are you having trouble with the bolts or is it all just sort of stuck together? Mine came apart with little to no hassle at all but that is also sort of just the way my truck is, it's never particularly disagreeable when being worked on.

I do not remember the value but I do remember this: Make sure your retorque them a time or two in the weeks following if you are doing a bit of driving with it. It took about 3 times on mine for everything to finally settle into place and stay at spec.

I wouldn't do that. WAY too much caster angle then. You're going from one extreme to another. Just pull it apart and stuff some shims in it like I did. Mine drives quite well now.

I was planning on at least starting on them here in my driveway today and tomorrow and probably finishing off at Dave's over the weekend. BTW, did I ever mention how much I hate people who over torque lug nuts?

Actually the shim trick worked like a charm. 1/4 inch under the low side to split the difference and we're off to the races. Steering wheel returns to center just like before, steering effort is about the same as it was with the old NDCC tires and it tracks good at highway speeds. Whew...

I got to thinking about this a bit out there and looked at how everything sat with a 1/8th inch shim stuck under the back of the wedge. By my measurment, that knocks about 4 degrees out of it which would then give me about 4 degrees of caster. I was about to go post this idea up and...

No worries MWMules, you shall always be my most trusted adviser. Ok, picture and questions time: Firstly, here's some pics of what we are talking about for those of you who are trying to follow along. The pics are named, which is the best we can do since this forum won't let us use...

Thanks man! You got me pointed in the right direction. (I hope) Hard to search when you don't know the words....

https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?19096-flipping-around-front-axle-shims-how-raise-vehicle.html Ah ha! Like the above thread? I can take a whack at that!

I drive my deuce rather a lot using it to run back and forth out to reenacting events carting all my goodies around as well as for various surplus shopping trips. Usually around 6-8K a year and I have been getting sort of tired of constantly having to be on the hunt for more 9.00 - 20 NDCC...