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2 Land Rover gearboxes and 1 New Process transfercase rebuild further, and I'm finally able to continue the work on old Goliath.

I started with the front end, right now I'm working on the driver side front fender rust repair. More to follow on that later.

Question for fellow GMC restorers: there are some rubber flaps/weatherstripping in the fender that is stapled to the sheet metal. Have anyone restored this, and can you tell me how you did it? Seems you need a very powerful stapler to do so.

The driver side corner of the hood is rusted out and pretty difficult to repair with no patch panels available. Rustbucket told me that he has a patch from an original hood available, which will be of great use when I have it here.



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The first serious task has been the steering box. Mine had quite a bit of slop, but most of the slop came from the joint in the pitman arm. I could tell that the bushings of the steering box were worn too. I removed the box and this was the grease that came out of it:



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I removed 60 years of grime and grease as best as I could with a wire brush. I as understand these were left bare cast iron from the factory and I wanted to replicate the original look.



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Buying new bushings from Ebay and having them shipped here was too much (Ebay international shipping is expensive) FWIW so I made my own from metric split bushings. These have better pockets for the lubrication as well.



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I turned the OD and ID for the bushings by making up 2 fixtures in the lathe. Aimed for .002" (0,05mm) clearance as per the manual. new bushings definitely tightened up the steering box.



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Here is a picture of the OD turning.

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