The Moog will be a much better part, anyhow. Should be part # K9519, right?

 

The moog fit perfect and the truck went back together in about 30 minutes including putting the tire on.

Thanks for the help every one

 

Excellent! Always nice to get a project that is a bit of a headache project done.

BTW, did you actually use a thread chaser or tap? If a thread chaser, did O'Reilly's have it?

 

Yeah O'reillys had a thread chaser kit. It worked like a charm. It was 100 bucks to "buy" it then I got all my money back when I returned it. I probably would have kept it but it had a limited amount of metric tools in it. After I ran that thing through with some pb blaster the bolts threaded in like a dream.

The project was intimidating at first but these trucks are actually pretty easy to tear down.

And for anyone that ever reads this, get the $14 pitman arm puller, it had that bj out in less than 30 seconds. I don't see any reason to mess with a BFH or a pickle fork at that price.