After many months of being dicked around my national grid, we finally got electric in the new shop, and thus work has finally started on this thing. On the list are new 1 piece seats, 5 point harnesses ,rebuilding kingpins, plate the knuckles, fixing leaks on the steering box, and a new exhaust.
Got the passenger seat in, have to make some new brackets for the driver side.
Also got the knuckles taken apart. Used a trick my friend told me where you cut around the kingpins about a 1/16" over where they meet the inner C, then you hit the top of them with a hammer. This deflects the little bit that is left and takes the load off of threads and I was able to spin them out with a normal box wrench.
Ran into a couple issues though, snapped 2 of the bolts on the bottom cover on one side and didn't have any torches to aid in getting them out. My friend is gonna take them to work and clean the grease up and get the broken bolts and studs out.
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