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I'll be looking for it, thanks again.

I don't know what it is but kinda like it. Is it yours?

Will do

Here you go, and thanks!

Welcome back, we always like pictures.

The hood is pretty and green, kinda looks like a cherry on top of a turd, no pics but will post some in a few days, hotter than fire here.

You know, its just one of those things, life keeps gettin in the way, makin good progress this year. Got hood re installed yesterday, took forever, lots of tweaking and adjusing to get it about right, what a pain!

Happy 4th!

Got a little painting done today, more of an experiment, i see lots of sanding I'm gonna have to go back and do. Finally got my front steering gearbox adjusted out about right. I don't have a lot of the special tools and adapters they used in 3rd shop back in the day when rebuilding these so I...

Started tear down and inspection today, she was funky inside, gears in good shape just the upper and lower bearings on worm shaft are toast.Haven't done one of these before but the step by step instructions are in the -34, how hard could it be?

Parts kit showed up Saturday from Red River

Finally got my steering wheel off the old column, it was a titanic struggle. I have a military steering wheel puller but the top of the shaft was rusty so it just collapsed in. So I wound up using a sawzall, dremel, and a big bolt and nut to hammer out the stub. It's in decent enough shape...

Yeah, i wonder if it was meant to push water out of the wheel bearings after fording?

More scraping of paint, sanding, repeat, repeat and repeat. I did find the only original markings left on this truck. I guess they got lazy when they were sandblasting down toward the bottom of the truck. Also this is my truck's birth month, delivered 06/71, not too shabby for a 47 year old gal.

And since I had a wheel off I decided to go ahead and pull a hub and have a look, been dreading this afraid of what I would find but I am surprised to find it pretty clean inside and shoes look good, hope the other 5 look this good inside.

Decided to remove both front fenders to be able to get to all the nooks and crannies where there is red paint.

Trying to remember, I think this was discussed here some time back, is this grease zerk on top of the hub just for post fording operations?

Ask for Blake, be advised he is a busy guy, might take a couple of days for him to get back to you, forget e-mail, i just keep calling back, or leave messages on his phone. To speed things along have your nsn or part numbers already on hand when you call. Good number above or use 2227, last 4,

Good news, just got a call back from Red River, they have both parts of the rebuild kit in stock Bearing and seal kit steering gear NSN 2330-00-880-4109 Parts kit steering gear NSN 2530-00-880-4112 Gonna be under 100 dolars delivered, as far as I know this kit is the same for front and rear...

So, now time to take out the steering gearbox, and either rebuild or replace, I am looking at both options. It wasn't as horrible a job as I thought. I found it a bit easier to reach everything by removing the dvr side front wheel.