[fourhundredorbust]

Great info, thank you James! A couple things unclear to me:

When you say you reamed the holes do you mean you reamed out the ball joint tapered holes on the "new" spindles to fit the "old" ball joints?

If so, why not just put a new rod end on instead of reaming the steering arm hole too? Was it to keep everything spindle out "new" and everything ball joint in "old"?

Also, in searching I found the "new" spindle taper is 2:12 but I cannot find what the old taper is. Do you recall what taper the old ball joints are so I can buy the correct reamer?

All this being said, my truck is a 1960 1500 with the torsion bar front end...do you forsee any issues with that since it is different from your truck or do you think the "new" spindles will still work?

Great info on the rear end too, thank you. That sounds like the easy part!